Collecting Highlighted Text Selections

Cindy has a lot of documents in which she's used the highlighter to mark different text selections. She's looking for a way to pull all those highlighted selections from the document and place them in their own document.

One way to do it is the old-fashioned manual method. You can display the first highlighted selection and select it with the mouse. Then display each subsequent highlighted selection and hold down the Ctrl key as you select the text with the mouse. You'll end up with a group of non-contiguous selections, and you can press Ctrl+C to copy them all to the Clipboard. Open a new document and press Ctrl+V, and the selections are in the new document.

There's an easier way, however. Follow these steps:

1. Press Ctrl+F. Word displays the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
2. Make sure there is nothing in the Find What box.
3. If it is available, click the More button. Word expands the dialog box to include additional controls. (Click here to see a related figure.)
4. Click Format and choose Highlight. The word "Highlight" appears just beneath the Find What box.
5. Select the Highlight All Items Found In check box. The Find Next button changes to Find All.
6. Click Find All. All of the highlighted text in the document is selected.
7. Press Ctrl+C. All of the selections are copied to the Clipboard.
8. Open a new, blank document.
9. Press Ctrl+V.

All of the highlighted text selections are now in the new document.