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Copy All Word’s Highlighted Text Into Another Document

Posted by on Mar 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Here is a nifty little tip for copying highlighted text from one document to another. As you read a document, you may highlight important text using the highlighter. For whatever reason, if you want to copy all the highlighted selections into a separate document, there is a simple and quick way of doing so.

In Word 2002:

  1. Open the Find and Replace box by pressing Ctrl+F. 
  2. Make sure the Find tab is selected.
  3. Click the More button.
  4. Click the Format button and click Highlight.
  5. Select the Highlight all items found in: option.
  6. Click the Find All button. All highlighted text within the document is selected.
  7. Press Ctrl+C to copy the highlighted text.
  8. Switch to the target document and press Ctrl+V to paste the text.

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  • http://www.mycomputerworks.com Damon C

    Instructions for Word 2007

    1.Open the Find and Replace box by pressing Ctrl+F.
    2.Make sure the Find tab is selected.
    3.Click the More button.
    4.Click the Format button under Find and click Highlight.
    5.Select the Highlight all items found in: Reading Highlight
    6.Click the Find In button. Select Main Document
    7.All items will be selected now. Close “find and replace”
    8.Press Ctrl+C to copy the highlighted text.
    9.Switch to the target document and press Ctrl+V to paste the text.

  • Jim ROgers

    When I perform these actions in Microsoft 2007, and then paste into my current document, The highlighted items are pasted in reverse order in the document.