Highlighting replaced MergeFields

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Hello,

I’m have a Document that I have run through a mailmerge process but in many cases this document will have fields that weren’t merged. I am trying to highlight these unmerged fields(strictly speaking I’m trying to replace them with the Fieldname as a Highlighted text but whenever I try the highlight isn’t applied.

This is what I have right now:
//mainDoc is the Document object that has already gone through the merge process
String[] remainingFields = mainDoc.MailMerge.GetFieldNames();

            DocumentBuilder postProcessBuilder = new DocumentBuilder(mainDoc);
            Shading shd = postProcessBuilder.Font.Shading;
            shd.Texture = TextureIndex.TextureSolid;
            shd.BackgroundPatternColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
            shd.ForegroundPatternColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
            //I've tried similar with postProcessBuilder.Font.HighlightColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red; but 
            //again, the fields are replaced but not highlighted
            for (int i = 0; i < remainingFields.Length; i++)
            {
                String fieldText = remainingFields[i];
                postProcessBuilder.MoveToMergeField(fieldText);
                postProcessBuilder.Write(fieldText);
            }
          //mainDoc.save(...)
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Run thisRun = new Run(mainDoc, fieldText);
Font f = thisRun.Font;
f.HighlightColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
postProcessBuilder.InsertNode(thisRun);
//postProcessBuilder.Write(fieldText);

I’ve replaced the commented line in my for loop and it worked!.. sort of
While the highlighting and text are right, I’ve lost the rest of my formatting. I ultimately don’t wan’t the end user to have to do additional fixes to the font. Is there a way to match the font of the current cursor position of the DocumentBuilder in the Run I create and then change the HighlightColor property?

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@dreeder

Thanks for your inquiry. Please perform the mail merge operation and use the following code example to highlight the unmerged fields. Hope this helps you.

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "in.docx");
//Perform mail merge...
foreach (Field field in doc.Range.Fields)
{
    if (field.Type == FieldType.FieldMergeField)
    {
        Node currentNode = field.Start.NextSibling;
        FieldEnd fieldend = field.End;

        while (currentNode != fieldend)
        {
            if (currentNode.NodeType == NodeType.Run)
            {
                ((Run)currentNode).Font.HighlightColor = Color.Red;
            }

            currentNode = currentNode.NextSibling;
        }

        field.End.Font.Color = Color.Red;
        field.Start.Font.Color = Color.Red;
    }
}

doc.Save(MyDir + "18.9.docx");
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Perfect. Thank you :smiley: