HighlightColorIndex Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

Returns or sets the highlight color for the specified range. Read/write WdColorIndex.

Applies to one of the following WdColorIndex constants.

wdByAuthor    

wdAuto

wdNoHighlight

wdBlack

wdBlue

wdBrightGreen

wdDarkBlue

wdDarkRed

wdDarkYellow

wdGray25

wdGray50

wdGreen

wdPink

wdRed

wdTeal

wdTurquoise

wdViolet

wdWhite

wdYellow

expression.HighlightColorIndex

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remark

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

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