Is there a keyboard shortcut to highlight the selected text in MS Word 2007?

Question

I have done a bit of searching and cannot find a keyboard shortcut for this command in Microsoft Word 2007. I am not talking about simply making a text selection. (that would be a no brainer) What I would like to do is select some text and toggle the background color so it appears as if it were marked with a yellow highlighter.

Is there any way to do this with a keyboard shortcut?

Answer 1

You can set them in Word Options, Customize, Keyboard Shortcuts.

Edit: Actually, it's already Ctrl + Alt + H.

Answer 2

You can easily create your own macros for that, using the Word Macro recorder.

1. highlight a word or phrase
2. Start the macro recorder (Tools - Macro - Record new macro)
3. assign the macro a name, define if it should be stored in Normal.dot or the current file, assign a keyboard shortcut (after all this, you'll close the dialogs and end up with a recording icon)
4. format your selected text
5. Stop the macro recorder

Answer 3

An alternative is to use Alt + H + I.

Answer 4

You can set them in Word Options, Customize, Keyboard Shortcuts.

Goto "Tools" menu and select "Highlight" option

Assign keyboard shortcut to it like "Ctrl+H"