CTRL+Y isn't repeating my last formatting action.   

CTRL+Y isn't repeating my last formatting action.  For example, I remove 
highlighting from text.  Then I go to the next highlighted text, press 
CTRL+Y, and nothing changes.  Can you tell me what's going on?  Is something 
wrong, or can some formatting "repeats" not be accomplished with CTRL+Y?

Thanks!
-- 
MargaretA

date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 05:19:01 -0700   author:   MargaretA

Re: CTRL+Y isn't repeating my last formatting action.   

Unfortunately, some formatting cannot be repeated using Ctrl+Y (also, F4). 
Word does not treat highlighting the way it does other kinds of formatting.

Without any text selected, if you click on the highlighting tool, you can 
then use the mouse to apply highlighting to non-contiguous items in the 
document (press Esc when done). But, other than that, Word doesn't provide a 
convenient mechanism for re-using the "I just highlighted something" 
information. You might have noticed that Word treats highlighting 
differently in other ways, as well. For example, if you select text and then 
highlight it, Word de-selects. If you apply bold, italics, etc. to a 
selection, however, the text remains selected.

-- 
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"MargaretA"  wrote in message 
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> CTRL+Y isn't repeating my last formatting action.  For example, I remove
> highlighting from text.  Then I go to the next highlighted text, press
> CTRL+Y, and nothing changes.  Can you tell me what's going on?  Is 
> something
> wrong, or can some formatting "repeats" not be accomplished with CTRL+Y?
>
> Thanks!
> -- 
> MargaretA

date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:48:21 -0400   author:   Herb Tyson [MVP]