You can use HitHighlight() method of the Find object

    With .Selection.Find
      .HitHighlight ("Whatever")

Syntax: expression.HitHighlight(FindText, HighlightColor, TextColor, MatchCase, MatchWholeWord, MatchPrefix, MatchSuffix, MatchPhrase, MatchWildcards, MatchSoundsLike, MatchAllWordForms, MatchByte, MatchFuzzy, MatchKashida, MatchDiacritics, MatchAlefHamza, MatchControl, IgnoreSpace, IgnorePunct, HanjaPhoneticHangul)



>i have an application which keeps tack of documents among other things.
>one of the routine queries the database for documents containing a list of word like 'finance' and 'meltdown' and it will return a handfull of .docs with those words in it in a grid.
>the use can select a line in the grid and the program will open the word doc in MSWord.
>
>now it woud be helpful if alloccasions of the words 'finance' and 'meltdown' would be highlited.
>
>this code:
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