You can quickly change the shortcuts, if you want. To make it as easy for you as possible, shortcuts are already assigned to the most used highlight commands from start. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to the colors and simply press the shortcut to apply the highlight color. You do not need to have the dialog box open. You can place the dialog box where you want. The dialog box can remain open as you work, always ready for use. The dialog box lets you apply any highlight color or remove highlight with a single click. Brief information about the functionality is shown in the balloons. The Apply Highlight command opens the dialog box shown in Figure 5. However, that shortcut applies the current default highlight color so you need to first select the desired color whereas the DocTools HighlightManager add-in lets you apply any highlight color without ever changing the default highlight color. As explained in the article, Word has a default shortcut for highlighting text. For help on the built-in highlight functionality in Word, see my article about how highlight in Word works. With the features for replacing highlight colors introduced in DocTools HighlightManager version 3.0, replacement of highlight colors has become very easy – and very flexible too.Īs is the case in relation to other add-ins available via this website, I have written a detailed article about Word functionality related to this add-in. adjoining highlight colors where two colors meet with no characters between. This works to some extent but can't handle all instances of highlight, e.g. For example, you can use the Find and Replace feature in Word to find highlight and replace with the currently selected highlight color. In version 3.0, I have added new features to make the add-in even more useful. The result is the DocTools HighlightManager add-in. In addition, I decided to add some extra tools to make it fast and easy to remove highlight and to find highlight in a document. Therefore, I decided to develop a smart add-in that is flexible and customizable and that lets you quickly apply any highlight color either by using a keyboard shortcut or, alternatively, by clicking a color in a dialog box that can be available all the time. Word forums that many Word users would like a smarter way to work with different highlight colors. If this resolves your problem, close the question, that will help other people with the same question.I know from questions in misc. If this answer helped you, please accept it by clicking the check mark to the left and, karma permitting, upvote it. Let the blame of translation be put now on the Word (dark) side and keep your original document as a reference. Since at least 2009, Word can indeed open. If you exchange your document with M$ Word aficionados, save as. You’ll retrieve all your formatting next time. docx? Is this because of collaborative work? To circumvent this problem, think over your workflow.
When you reopen the file, you open in fact a M$ Word document (even if it was previously created with LO Writer) and what was lost is lost for ever. Consequently, some attributes will be lost in the conversion. docx is adapted to M$ Word concepts which do not encompass all possibilities offered by LO (I refer particularly to the various style layers which have no so universal equivalents). When saved, this representation is translated into a formatted expression of your document.odt is the native LO format and is guaranteed to preserve all properties/attributes/highlighting you put on your text. docx format means translating some properties into approximate supposed-equivalent ones in the target non-native format.ĭocument is correct before closing because you work on internal (memory) representation. LO and M$ Office are based on different (and sometimes conflicting) underlying concepts.Saving in.