Colored highlighting of text

Hello everybody. I'm a relative noob with ActionScript, and
often the solutions I come up with are needlesly complicated due to
me not being aware of a simpler solution. So before I embark I'd
just like to bounce this off of anybody. Any feedback is most
appreciated.
I want a paragraph of text to become "highlightable" with
highlighter markers (dragable movie clips), 4 colors in all. I know
the background color of a text box can be set, but in this case I
want sentences, individual words, etc. to be able to have their
background color change. I was thinking that I'd have to convert
the text to paths, change each word to a movie clip and then script
a behavior so each word movie clip changes color when a marker
makes contact with them. This seems like iti will be a very tedious
process, but at this moment it's the only strategy I've come up
with.
Any alternative solutions?

Sorry for the delayed reponse regarding this, hard to find
time to work on this problem. So how do you specify an individual
word in a text box to have the color, font, whatever changed when
the user clicks/selects that word. I understand how to set the text
format after reading up on it a bit, but still unsure what event
would trigger one word to change it's format.
Any advice is most welcome.

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