How can I tell what highlighting style a word is highlighted with?

Laurie Caday
Laurie Caday Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
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I've tried everything I can think of and deeply searched the web with no result. I would gratefully appreciate it? It's been driving me crazy. Thank you.

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  • Laurie Caday
    Laurie Caday Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
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    That worked! Yet when I to search for that particular highlighted word in the visual filters, it says it can’t find it. Is that normal? When I physically searched through all of my visual filters, I still could not find that word/highlighting/formatting in any of the visual filters. Where can I search for that particular visual filter to find it in the visual filters I looked under the documents/visual filter and I also looked under the format menu search and neither of them showed this word at all. I.e..David in the previous example. I finally found the actual visual filter finally with your help! Thank you!

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,639

    Try opening the Information Tool and clicking the word

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  • Laurie Caday
    Laurie Caday Member Posts: 7 ✭✭

    Here is what I got when I tried that. Note the highlight tool its grayed out……

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,639

    Here is what I got when I tried that. Note the highlight tool its grayed out……

    That's strange - try this. Right-click on the highlighted word, click Selection on the left of the popup context menu and then Open Notes and Highlights

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    Then, in the note, click the highlight icon and scroll down until you see the highlight used indicated

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    But, are you sure this is a manually applied highlight. I think it might be a Visual Filter you have created that is applying the highlight. If so, you would need to look at the Visual Filter definition.

  • Laurie Caday
    Laurie Caday Member Posts: 7 ✭✭

    So again I went thru all my visual filters and have nothing that resembles it. I also went ahead and tried to do the same thing as you did…. This is what I got. I can't explain it… Not sure why my example is so different?????

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,441

    The Context Menu shows different actions (right side) based on what is chosen in the left side. Was you selection highlighted - was it all highlighted?

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,639

    So again I went thru all my visual filters and have nothing that resembles it.

    I appreciate you have done this, but this does look more and more like a visual filter and not a highlight!

    To double-check this, please click More in the toolbar and select the Formatting tab. Then turn off the display of Visuai Filters and see if the highlights go away.

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  • Laurie Caday
    Laurie Caday Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
    Answer ✓

    That worked! Yet when I to search for that particular highlighted word in the visual filters, it says it can’t find it. Is that normal? When I physically searched through all of my visual filters, I still could not find that word/highlighting/formatting in any of the visual filters. Where can I search for that particular visual filter to find it in the visual filters I looked under the documents/visual filter and I also looked under the format menu search and neither of them showed this word at all. I.e..David in the previous example. I finally found the actual visual filter finally with your help! Thank you!

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