Find and highlight all instances of ALL CAPS

I know, thanks to y'all, that <[A-Z]{2,}> will find words written in ALL
CAPS. How can I find and highlight all instances?

Is there a way to get it to recognize whole words and not instances like FBI
or CIA?

When I have searched for words and then marked them to be highlighted, when
I exit the FIND window, the highlighting disappears. I know I'm not doing
something right but I don't know what.

USay,

AFAIK there isn't a complete solution. You can certainly find and highlight
all instances ALL CAP words. With a macro, you can even exclude the
specific acronyms FBI and CIA, however excluding "like" acronyms is a
different matter:

Sub SratchMacro()
Dim oRng As Range
Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Content
With oRng.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = "<[A-Z]{2,}>"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.MatchWildcards = True
Do While .Execute
With oRng
Select Case .Text
Case "FBI", "CIA" 'add as many acronyms as necessary.
'Do Nothing
Case Else
.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
End Select
End With
Loop
End With
End Sub

For help installing macros see:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

Note the macro above only searches the current document story range (range
containing the cursor). If you need to search all story ranges (e.g.,
headers, footers, etc.) then it would require more code.



ISay wrote:
> I know, thanks to y'all, that <[A-Z]{2,}> will find words written in
> ALL CAPS. How can I find and highlight all instances?
>
> Is there a way to get it to recognize whole words and not instances
> like FBI or CIA?
>
> When I have searched for words and then marked them to be
> highlighted, when I exit the FIND window, the highlighting
> disappears. I know I'm not doing something right but I don't know
> what.

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