RSS feedIn Microsoft Word, I’d like a way to print a document with certain search terms highlighted, to save me going through with a highlighter pen when I’m working with a small section of information. I’d love it to put a black background printed page tab in the margin as well, to save me using those sticky 3M page markers.
The document I’m working with today contains a section on what I’m interested in, but is also referred to in several other places in the document.
This is how it would work. A new function called “Highlight text…” would allow me to enter search terms, and an option for word, paragraph, page, section. “Find…” already has a “Highlight all items”, but isn’t very useful. When I click on OK, every word, para, page, section (whichever I selected) which matches the search, is temporarily highlighted for me. I should be able to set display options for it, like in track changes, with side bars, text colour and background highlighting.
Then in the print dialog, there’s a checkbox for “Print highlights for highlighted text”, or similar (too busy to think of a better phrase right now), and an option to include an index to each page which is highlighted and some summary text of each, ala web based search result summaries.
Microsoft, are you reading me?