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Macros, tips, and templates for Corel® WordPerfect® for Windows®
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Download HILITERL.ZIP (v1.10; 07/13/04; 21,116 bytes)

For WordPerfect 8,9,10,11,12

v1.08 - Added ability to process Insertions and Deletions produced by File, Document, Compare (or Review) as well as redline produced by Format, Font, Redline.

v1.09 - Added a choice of four highlight colors. See the top of the macro's code for modifications you can make to colors, etc.

v1.10 - Added main menu option to skip printing but retain new highlights. Added a Readme file.

A macro that adds highlighting to all redlined text found in the document. It optionally prints the document and then removes the highlighting it added to the redline.

On most black-and-white printers "redlined" text (including Inserted/Deleted text used in File, Document Compare/Review) shows up on the printed page with a gray background, similar to that produced by highlighting. On some of these printers the gray background may print very lightly, so this macro adds highlighting on top of all redlined text, optionally prints the document, then removes the highlighting (only) that it added in the first stage.

Other highlighting — that is, any existing highlighting that was not imposed on top of redlined text — will remain unaffected, because during the cleanup stage the macro code searches for [Highlight][Redln] and [Redln][Highlight] code pairs and removes only the Highlight codes at those locations. However, see the second caution below.

Cautions:

• If you have Document Review or Document Compare turned on, adding highlighting with this macro will be seen as insertions by WordPerfect, and each new [Highlight] code will be bracketed with two [Insertion] codes! This is likely to cause the macro some confusion. It is best to turn Review/Compare off before playing the macro.
• If you have previously applied highlighting to part of a redlined string of characters, the macro will not restore the original highlighting to that string. It cannot find such split codes (e.g., [Redln]This is a [Highlight]test[Highlight] string[Redln]). The two [Highlight][Redline] codes on each side of the affected text must be contiguous, with no intervening characters or codes. (They can be in either order, [Redln][Highlight] or [Highlight][Redln].) Solution: Simply close the document without saving the changes made to it by the macro.

Alternative:

If printed redline text shows up as standard or slightly faded text, it may be because of the following problem. From Corel's Knowledge Base (for WP10, but it may apply to other versions):

"The printer driver installed on your computer determines the display style of printed redline text. Each printer type can produce printed redline text differently. However, in most cases you can configure a print job to display redline text against a shaded gray background.

To display printed redline text -

1 Click File > Print.
2 Click the Advanced tab.
3 In the Advanced options area, disable the Print in color check box.
4 Click Print."

If this doesn't work, try HILITERL.