Highlighting space between words in Word 2010

Factual Questions
1

Two weeks ago I was able to use the highlighter function to change the color of the spaces between some of the words in a paper. (Basically, I was highlighting the relevant spaces in red.) This worked intuitively.

Today, I am doing exactly the same thing as far as I can tell, yet the highlighting won’t “take”. I can highlight letters, and I can highlight strings that include both letters and spaces, but if I try to highlight a space, it simply won’t highlight. It remains white.

Any idea what could be going on here? Is there some setting somewhere that would affect this?

2

If you write “hilightedd sspace” and highlight “d s” then delete just the d and s, the space will remain highlighted. Of course I doubt that’s what you were doing, but if you really need to do it, that’s the only thing I found that works.

3

Are you highlighting spaces from a paper written on another version of word or a .doc file? Maybe try saving/converting it to a word 2010 file.