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Robin, ofcourse, but the method has a few disadvantages.

You have to turn it on and off
u manually
. Peter's suggestion of eventlisteners is beyond my scripting knowledge...

Besides, a regular character style
u overwrites
any current character style that happens to be applied to the text.

I'm relieved to hear the GREP styles of CS4 don't do that, but that would mean you would have to put every possible highlite phrase into a GREP style -- which may be utterly impractical (suppose you want the word 'the' highlighted -- only once ).

My biggest gripe is that there has been a Plugin SDK example for years now, precisely doing this: a way to highlight text in the interface. Never understood why they just didn't add it to the standard plugins.