Dorothy,

I'm not in front of my Word 2003 right now, but off the top of my head, I
would think you could use the "find" function, then when it finds certain
words or letter combinations etc., you could have the macro go under the
Format-Font selection and tell it to change the text color - or something
along those lines.  Then, have the macro find the next instance and do it
again.  This should work because the find will highlight the selection so
that the formatting command will affect that selection only.

Tony



>Hi Tony
>
>That's just the problem. I don't want the words replaced, I want to be
>able to see the highlighted words, check the sentence and decide whether
>or not I can write it in a way that is more appropriate to modern writing
>rules. You wouldn't believe the way writing rules have changed over recent
>years. With the increasing volume of books being submitted for publishing,
>editors are becoming more picky than ever. Tolkein would never be
>published today. Adverbs and adjectives ending in 'ly', sentences
>beginning with words ending in 'ing', etc. It's a mine field, but one gets
>used to it as in all occupations.
>This is why 'Replace' and 'Find' are too severe.
>I did send an eamil addressed to Peter which included a piece of text
>scanned by my friend's macro but it seems transit to the list has wiped
>out the highlighting.
>
>Dorothy Jones

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