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Hi all!

Is it possible that, if I do a search on an entire document, the program will keep those words highlighted even after I've started a new search?

e.g. I search the entire document for the word "say". The program highlights all the "say" it found, even after I've done a search for the word "said". And so on and so forth.

This would really help me right now .

Thanks!

There's nothing like that, but you could always do a Find All and then add the highlighting (or background color) yourself.

Removing it is a bit trickier if you already have coloring in your document, but can be done. Just apply a color that you aren't using elsewhere in your document. Then when you want to remove it:

1. Select any single highlighted bit of text.
2. Click the highlighter tag (the little square at the bottom-right of each document window).
3. From the menu choose "Select All".
4. Now remove all the selected highlight using the menu Format > Highlight > Remove Highlight Attribute.

Hope that helps.

So I'd have to do it one by one? I'm talking about a thesis here, so something automatic would really help.

What do you mean one by one? You can highlight all found matches all at once, that's the beauty of multipart selections.

Yeah but they'd be deleted after a new search right?

I'm suggesting you apply a highlighting attribute to the matches (add formatting to the document), eg:

1. Open the Find panel.
2. Type your search text / expression.
3. Click the "Find All" button.
4. Move back to the document window.
5. With all matches still selected, apply the highlighting, eg: use the menu Format > Highlight > Yellow.

Does that make sense?

Holy crap that works. I feel kind of stupid now hahaha; thanks Martin.