

If I have Track Changes on and the ‘Track Formatting’ option turned off and add or remove my highlight, it behaves as adding/removing a highlight normally would without Track Changes. If I change text, I get the change bar for that, but adding or removing highlighting doesn’t affect anything to do with that text. If I have Track Changes on and the ‘Track Formatting’ option selected when I add the yellow highlight, I get a formatting change balloon telling me that I’ve added highlight formatting equally, if I have ‘Track Formatting’ selected when I remove the highlight, I get another formatting balloon re highlighting. I just tested what I think you were dong in Word 2010, and I don’t get the same issues. (Thanks to Tony Jollans on the Microsoft Office Word Discussion Group who alerted me to this solution: )

Once changed, the new color applies whenever you press the shortcut key combination. The default highlight color is yellow, but you can change it.

And that’s not as intuitive or as easy as you’d think because they left Highlight off the Format list! Here’s how you do it: In Word 2003 you have to assign your own keystroke combination for highlighting. It’s fine when you only have the occasional highlighting to do, but what if you’re doing a lot of adding/removing highlighting from text? You need a quicker way, right? Word 2003 Microsoft Word has a toolbar icon for applying and removing color highlighting, just like using a real highlighter.
