How to Highlight and Remove Highlights in Word Documents

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Need to make the text in your Word document stand out? You can highlight it.

Highlighting is a useful way to emphasize important points, mark revisions, or draw attention to specific words or phrases in your text. Once you’ve highlighted the text in your document, you can then search through the highlights. Or, if you want, remove them entirely once you’re finished with them.

If you want to know how to highlight important text in your Word document (and remove the highlights afterward), follow the steps below.

How to Highlight Text in Word

Highlighting text in Word is one of the easiest things you can try if you’re aWord beginner. You can do it by selecting the text first and adding a highlighted color or by manually adding highlights using the highlighter tool.

If you want to highlight a specific text that you’ve already written, you can follow these steps:

If you want to highlight multiple parts of a document, it might be easier to use the highlighter tool manually. This means you don’t have to select the text first. Your cursor will change to show a highlighter, and any text you select with this mode enabled will be highlighted in the color you selected in theText Highlight Colormenu.

To use the highlighter tool, follow these steps.

The text you selected will become highlighted, with the background behind the text changing to reflect the color you selected in theText Highlight Colormenu.

How to Find Highlighted Text in Word

Looking for highlighted text that you’ve inserted in a large Word document? Rather than scale through it manually, you can search through your highlighted text using theFind and Replacetool in Word.

How to Remove Highlights in Word

If you want to remove the highlight from your text, you have a few options. You can remove it from a specific text, from all of the text in your document, or from a certain color you’ve highlighted.

To remove highlights from a specific text, follow these steps.

This will remove any highlights from the selected text. Repeat these steps for any other smaller areas of highlighted text.

To remove highlights from all of the text in your document, follow these steps.

This will remove any highlights from all of the text in your document.

If you want to remove highlights of a certain color, you can use theFind and Replacefeature to help you.

Repeat the process until you locate all of the color highlights that you’re searching for (or until you reach the end of the document).

Making Changes to a Word Document

Thanks to the steps above, you can quickly highlight important parts of your text in Microsoft Word (or remove them once you’re done). You can also highlight certain objects, such as images and shapes, in the same way.

If you’re planning on using highlights in Word to point out possible changes or to make recommendations, there’s a better way. You canadd comments to Word documentsdirectly, allowing you to suggest feedback during the editing process.

Want to experiment with different features in Word? If you want to move away from a text-heavy document, you could trydrawing in Wordto add a visual element to your pages.

Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer based in the United Kingdom. In a past life, Ben was a college lecturer in the UK, training teens and adults. Since leaving the classroom, Ben has taken his teaching experience and applied it to writing tech how-to guides and tutorials, specialising in Linux, Windows, and Android. He has a degree in History and a postgraduate qualification in Computing.Read Ben’s Full Bio

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