Thanks Graham! This is pretty awesome! It is indeed highlighting MORE than it was with the old code so I'll definitely start using this updated code and trash the other .. but it's still not highlighting to end of paragraph in every case.. Not sure why? (see attached image)

Perhaps someone can expand it further to include through to end where a paragraph mark exists??
Here's a pic of what the better code you provided is doing (which again is awesome but check out where the Paragraph marks exist - in most cases it worked but appears there are 2 cases where it stopped at end of sentence and did not continue to highlight through to the end of the paragraph)
highlight-better-but-not-to-end-of-paragraph-in-all-cases.jpg