Dear all,

I guess that this is a really easy question but I have been looking on some books and on the internet with no success. But well, take into consideration that I am both a newbie and a social scientist!

The problem is that I have a text field filled with the content of newspaper articles. I would like to "highlight" a specific list of words on this text field (e.g. swiss, Switzerland). Ideally I would like to change the style and color of these specific set of words.

I am using FM Pro 9 and it seems to me that I cannot rely on some of the "custom functions"-based solutions proposed. I have tried previously with Conditional formatting, but I am not able to format single words. Furthermore, I would like the solution not to be case-sensitive, in order to "highlight" occurrences such as "swiss", "Swiss" and "SWISS".

Thank you very much for your help and patience.

Sorry for my broken English and greetings from Switzerland.

I think this'll help: http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demos7/demo701.html

Try:

http://www.briandunning.com/cf/579

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Oops, sorry - I didn't realize that by:

I cannot rely on some of the "custom functions"-based solutions proposed

you meant you don't have Advanced. Well, the problem is that this is a recursive calculation (actually, two recursive calculations, if you want to preserve the original case), so unless you use a triggered script or perhaps a repeating calculation field to do the recursions, this will be out of your realm of possibilities.

Edited February 19, 201115 yr by comment

consultant, thank you very much for your quick reply and advice!