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On the format bar there's a button "highlight" that enables highlighting of certain portions of text (16 colours available).

You can select a text area of a ms word document, press this button and the text will be highlighted.

Also you can press this button in advance and then using a mouse select a portion of the text, after you release your mouse button, the portion will be highlighted. But then, if the "highlight button" gets unpressed and if you like to highlight another portion of the text, you must repeat it all again.

Is there a way to make this button sticky, so that you could double click the word and it would get highlighted with no need to use that button over and over again (and not using the keyboard)?

Edit:

Fact is, that according to documentation this button is sticky. And I saw this behaviour before, but not today. But today it does not seem sticky at all. It automatically switches highlighting off whenever it highlights anything. Some problem here, do not know why today it is acting so out of order.

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Also, I recommend OpenOffice, after trying the latest release I found the needed functionality (highlighting with sticky button) fully working and quite impressing. – EugeneP Apr 17 '11 at 18:31
Did you try double-clicking it ? This is how is works with Word 2007. – another Philippe Apr 20 '11 at 10:04
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