Highlighting text
Highlighting text adds a bar of transparent color over text, which is useful for editing documents or for distinguishing words and paragraphs. You can highlight and remove the highlighting from part or all of a document, and you can change the highlight color. You can also hide highlighting in a document.
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The cursor changes to a highlighting pen.
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Select the text.
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Highlighting is disabled when no check mark displays beside the On menu command.
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You can also highlight text by selecting text and clicking the Highlight
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To remove highlighting from text | ![]() |
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Select the highlighted text.
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You can also remove highlighting by clicking anywhere in the highlighted text and clicking the Highlight
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To change the highlight color | ![]() |
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Open the Color picker, and click a color.
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Type a value in the Shading box.
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Higher values darken the highlight color. Lower values lighten it.
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The color change does not apply to text that has already been highlighted. To change the color of highlighted text, you must first select the text.
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You can also change the highlight color by opening the Highlight
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To hide highlighting | ![]() |
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The absence of a check mark beside the Print/show menu command indicates that highlighting is hidden.
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Highlighting is displayed by default.
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