Highlighting text using menu or keyboard?

[linda_sims at vanguard.com]

I see I wasn't entirely clear in my explanation. Sorry--put it down to 
frustration and an early and VERY rainy morning.

I'm trying to tell people how to fill in some information in a Word file, 
and the placeholder text has been highlighted. I can't make any changes to 
the Word file in question, which means no keyboard shortcuts, styles, or 
macros are possible.

More than likely I'm overthinking the issue. There just aren't too many 
people here who are interested in customizing their Word toolbars (I'm the 
only one I know of who has). It just irks me that there isn't anyway to do 
this in Word without either using the Formatting toolbar or having to do 
OTHER customization work.

Lin Sims
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> > Is it possible to apply a highlight to or remove it from text using 
one
> > of the menus or by using a keyboard shortcut? I need to write
> > instructions on how to remove highlighting from text, and while I 
admit
> > that the chance the audience I'm writing for has modified their 
toolbars
> > to the point where the highlighting button DOESN'T show is pretty
> > remote, I hate having to depend on that when I'm telling people how to
> > do things. I want to reference something that will ALWAYS work, 
whether
> > the Formatting toolbar is visible or not.


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