Add Highlight Text For Free

You can highlight text in your document by clicking on the Highlight tool, located in the Font group on the Home tab of the ribbon. (In some versions of Word this tool is called the Text Highlight Color tool.)

There are several ways to do it, including the use of paragraph and character styles.Highlighting with paragraph rules. If all the text is in a single-line paragraph, you can use a paragraph rule.Highlighting with paragraph shading.Highlighting with character styles.

Adding highlighting: Select the text you want to highlight, then press Ctrl+Alt+H.

Fortunately, Word includes a shortcut you can use to highlight text: just select it and then press Alt+Ctrl+H. The selected text is then highlighted, as desired.

How to highlight text using your keyboard. To highlight with the keyboard, move to the starting location using the arrow keys. Then, hold down the Shift key, and press the arrow key in the direction you want to highlight. Once everything you want is highlighted, let go of the Shift key.

If you want to highlight one word at a time, press Ctrl while holding down Shift , and then press the Left arrow or Right arrow . If you want to highlight a whole line of text, move your cursor to the start of the line, hold the Shift key, and then press the Down arrow .

You can highlight text everywhere except in charts and table cells. Add a highlight: Select text, then tap Highlight. Remove a highlight: Double-tap the highlighted text, then tap Remove Highlight. Note: If the document is shared with others, only you and the document owner can delete your highlight.