Highlighting specific words?

[chuckles1066]

Hi there,

First post, hope someone can help!

I'm quite au fait with VBA in Excel but have never had to use it for Word - until now.

I'm putting together a lengthy document and will need to apply formatting to specific words......going through the entire document and manually dealing with them is going to take forever so I'm looking to automate the entire task.

I have four specific words that will need to be coloured either blue/bold, green/bold, purple/bold and red/bold/underlined wherever they occur.

Assume these words are apple, pear, banana, lemon.

How do I do it?

Thanks in advance.

[macropod]

You can do this easily enough without a macro, using Find/Replace. If you're wedded to a macro solution, though, a search on 'highlight' in this forum will turn up some vba solutions (that just happen to use Find/Replace).