When reviewing Word documents, you may need to highlight specific words or phrases. For example, you might want to mark every occurrence of "risk" in a report, or highlight phrases such as "risk assessment" and "risk analysis". Java can handle both exact text searches and pattern-based searches. This article shows how to highlight the first match or all matches using either strings or regular expressions. 1. Install a Word Document Processing Library Add the following repository and dependency to your Maven project's pom.xml file: <repositories> <repository> <id> com.e-iceblue </id> <name> e-iceblue </name> <url> https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/ </url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId> e-iceblue </groupId> <artifactId> spire.doc </artifactId...
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