MS Word highlight text

[ajit]

Hi,

I am trying to color highlight text (any color other than yellow) in a word document.   Please can someone help me do it.  See the code below

 

$doc = (@ScriptDir & "\test.doc")

$str = "123"

$Fontcolor = 0xFF0000

;~ $Highlightcolor = "Bright Green)

$oWord = ObjCreate("Word.Application")
$oWord.Documents.Open($doc)
$oWord.selection.find.ClearFormatting() ; clear previous search

while $oWord.selection.find.execute($str) = True
$oWord.Selection.Expand
$oWord.selection.Font.Color = $Fontcolor
$oWord.selection.Font.Bold = True
$oWord.selection.Find.Forward = True
$oWord.Selection.Find.Execute
wend

$oWord.documents.Save
$oWord.Application.Quit
$oWord = 0
MsgBox(0, "Highlighter", "Finished")

Test Highlight.au3test.doc

Thanks for any help

Ajit

 

Edited August 19, 2018 by ajit

[water]

Did you have a look at the Word UDF that comes with AutoIt? IIRC _Word_DocRangeSet has an example in the help file that explains how to do. 

[ajit]

@Water

Thanks so much for your reply.

I am not sure if I am missing something but I cannot get the part on highlighting text.  Thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards,

Ajit

 

 

[water]

It is in the help file for _Word_DocRangeSet in section

Quote

; Scene 2
; Move the end of the range one character to the left so the space to the next
; word isn't formatted and format the text bold, italic and underlined

 

[ajit]

@water,

Thanks a lot.  The problem got solved.  Had earlier missed another post of yours on the topic which made things easy.  

 Regards,

Ajit

[water]

Glad you got it working