Word

Highlighting Text

Microsoft Word provides you with a tool you can use to highlight bodies of text. This tool is very useful in editing and doing research within a Word document.

To highlight text:

Click the Highlighter button in the toolbar.

Highlighter Toolbar Button

The color under the highlighter is the color that appears in the document. You can change the color by clicking on the little arrow to the right of the icon. Select the color you want from the color palette that appears.
Click-and-drag your cursor across the text you want to highlight.
You can turn off the highlighter by clicking the Highlighter button once again.