HighlightColorIndex Property

Applies To

Range object.

Description

Returns or sets the highlight color for the specified range. Can be one of the following WdColorIndex constants: wdNoHighlight, wdBlack, wdBlue, wdBrightGreen, wdDarkBlue, wdDarkRed, wdDarkYellow, wdGray25, wdGray50, wdGreen, wdPink, wdRed, wdTeal, wdTurquoise, wdViolet, wdWhite, or wdYellow. Read/write Long.

Note Setting this property to wdNoHighlight removes the highlight color (if any) from the specified range.

See Also

ColorIndex property, ShowHighlight property.

Example

This example removes highlight formatting from the selection.

Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight

This example applies yellow highlighting to each bookmark in the active document.

For Each abookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
    abookmark.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Next abookmark