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lombardi@uncg.edu (Julian Lombardi) wrote:

>I wish to customize my toolbar so that I can format text as hidden text of
>either of 4 different colors.  These colored texts will be used as four
>classes of annotation when working on my manuscript.  I am unable to do
>this and would appreciate any advice.

>-- 
>Julian Lombardi
>Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
>lombardi@uncg.edu
>910/334-5391 X 54

Julian,

If you have Word 6.0 or 6.0.1, this can be done easily with a macro.
Here is an example macro that turns the selected text red and applies
the hidden attribute. I recorded a macro and then edited it to remove
the non-pertinent formatting that also gets recorded. If you have Word
5.1, it doesn't have any macro function which would be what you'd need
to do multiple formatting attributes at the same time.

Sub MAIN
FormatFont .Color = 6, .Hidden = 1
End Sub

In this case, the 6 indicates Red. Here is a chart of the colors and
their numeric values:

 Color Code   Color Name
 ----------   ----------

 0            Auto
 1            Black
 2            Blue
 3            Cyan
 4            Green
 5            Magenta
 6            Red
 7            Yellow
 8            White
 9            Dark Blue
 10           Dark Cyan
 11           Dark Green
 12           Dark Magenta
 13           Dark Red
 14           Dark Yellow
 15           Dark Gray
 16           Light Gray

David