Highlighting software?

willhub · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:21

Hi.

I'm doing this CCNA thing at college at the moment, I find the best way to learn is to print it all off and highlight the important bits, problem with this is using lots of paper which I don't want to do when I can do it on my PC.

So just wondering if there is any software where I can paste it all in and just hold left click, highlight it and then it's highlighted, no having to mess with formatting, or is this possible with MS Office 2007?

Thanks
Will.

Cobertizo · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:37

You can highlight in Word or Acrobat Reader. That's likely to be your best bet, I'd have thought...

reflux · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:40

Yep, Acrobat is great for that kind of thing.

willhub · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:53

Would I not have to convert a word document into PDF though?

Cobertizo · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:56

willhub said:
Would I not have to convert a word document into PDF though?

If you have a Word doc, then use Word to highlight. If you have a PDF, use Acrobat. That'll be the simplest way.

GhostlyPea · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:57

If it has been supplied in .doc format cant you just highlight with the inbuilt function in word?

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herr_brush · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:59

You could probably write a macro in word to control the input that results in the highlighting. For example, if you held ctrl-shift then mouse over or something it could change the text background to a preset colour. I'm sure it would be easy to do and better than selecting the text then changing the colour manually.

Cobertizo · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:29

herr_brush said:
You could probably write a macro in word to control the input that results in the highlighting. For example, if you held ctrl-shift then mouse over or something it could change the text background to a preset colour. I'm sure it would be easy to do and better than selecting the text then changing the colour manually.

Or use the format painter tool - should do the job.