Most often, computer users in our country have to work with text in the Word editor from the Microsoft Office suite of office applications. It provides several different ways to highlight text fragments with color. All options for this operation include just a few mouse clicks in the intuitive interface of the application.
Necessary
Word processor Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010
Instructions
Step 1
After loading the desired document into Microsoft Word, select with the mouse a phrase, word, part of a word, letter or any other piece of text that you want to "recolor". Then click the selected area with the right mouse button to bring up a context menu on the screen.
Step 2
If you need to change the background color of the selected text, click the icon with the marker image - when you hover the cursor over it, the text highlight color tooltip pops up. As a result, a table will open with fifteen color options, from which you need to choose the most suitable one. The next time you select the background, you can skip manipulating the list, and click the icon itself - Word will remember your choice.
Step 3
To change the color of the font, not the background, use the adjacent icon - it shows the letter "A", and when you hover the cursor, a hint "Text color" pops up. There are many more shades of color in the drop-down list, and in addition there is an opportunity to use smooth transitions from one color to another - gradients.
Step 4
Both color control buttons are duplicated in the application menu, they are placed in the "Font" command group on the "Home" tab. Use these duplicates if you want to shorten the procedure by one click.
Step 5
Often it is necessary to highlight in color some word or phrase that is repeated many times in the text. It is not necessary to do this "manually" - in the "find and replace" function of modern versions of Word, this operation is automated. Before calling the search dialog, set the desired color in the "Text highlight color" drop-down list. Then press the key combination Ctrl + H, and the search operation settings form will appear on the screen.
Step 6
In the "Find" field, type the text you want to highlight, and then repeat it in the "Replace with" field. While the cursor remains in the second field, click the Format button. If you do not see it, click the "More" button at the bottom left of the form - this opens access to additional options of this dialog.
Step 7
To set the background color, select the lowest line in the drop-down list - "Highlighting". If you need to change the color of the letters, then select the top line - "Font". In the second case, an additional window will open, where you need to specify one of the options in the "Text color" drop-down list and click the OK button. Here you can set both options for changing the color at once - both for the background and for the font. To do this, sequentially select each of these two lines in the drop-down list of the "Format" button.
Step 8
Click the Replace All button. Word will scan the text and make any format replacements according to your preferences.
