Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, and 2013. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Changing Existing Highlighting.
Do you have a document that has lots of highlighting already applied in it? Do you want to change all that highlighting from the current color to a different color? If you answered yes to these questions, you can use the find and replace capabilities of Word to achieve the desired results. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
All of the highlighting in the document should change to whatever color you selected in step 1.
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2019-06-30 13:38:07
Ahmed Sherif Attia
It worked for me perfectly................Thanks
2017-10-11 13:13:35
Guy
I have a document with passages highlighted in two different colors. Now I want to replace words in one specific highlight color with a bold format, but no highlighting anymore. Is there a way to do this and keeping the rest of highlighted passages?
2014-09-23 16:31:43
Peter Buxton
You may have to modify a style if it invokes highlighting.
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