Troubleshoot automatically summarizing a document

My automatic summary doesn't make sense.

AutoSummarize didn't summarize some or all of my text.

The text I typed in AutoSummarize view doesn't appear in the right place.

In AutoSummarize view, you probably hid all the nonsummary text. (You can do this by selecting the Hide everything but the summary without leaving the original document option in the AutoSummarize dialog box, or by clicking Highlight/Show Only Summary on the AutoSummarize toolbar.) In this case, Microsoft Word marks the nonsummary text with the hidden text format. When you type within a paragraph that contains hidden text, you may find it difficult to determine where the new text will appear when you display the hidden text again. For example, the text may appear before or after the hidden text, depending on where you positioned the insertion point.

If you want to type text in AutoSummarize view, click Highlight/Show Only Summary on the AutoSummarize toolbar. This dims the nonsummary text instead of hiding it, so you can easily see where the new text will appear.

I can't distinguish summary text from highlighted text.

When you select Highlight key points in the AutoSummarize dialog box (Tools menu), summary text is highlighted in yellow. If other text in your document is highlighted in yellow, that text may appear to be part of the summary. You can't change the color used to highlight summary text, but you can remove yellow highlighting from text in the document, use a different highlight color to prevent other text in the document from looking like the highlighted text is part of the summary, or you can hide highlighting. To remove highlighting or change color, select the highlighted text, and click the arrow next to Highlight . Click None to remove highlighting, or click a color other than yellow. To hide highlighting, on the Tools menu, click Options, click the View tab, and then clear the Highlight check box.

Text disappeared after I summarized my document.