The use of color to highlight text in a Microsoft Word document or PowerPoint brings attention to that text.
Highlight the text in yellow or another vivid color to draw readers’ attention to the material and ensure that they notice and read it.
To learn how to highlight text in Word or PowerPoint, follow the steps below.
Highlight text in Microsoft Word
The procedures shown below can be used to highlight text in a Word document with color.
- Launch Microsoft Word and choose the text you wish to highlight in color.
- Find the text you want to highlight.
Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging the mouse left or right to select the text with the mouse. - Click the down arrow next to Text Highlight Color on the Home tab of the Ribbon.
- Choose the color you want to highlight the text with from the highlight color drop-down menu.
Now the text has a colored highlight.
Repeat the previous steps and choose a different color in step 4 to alter the highlight color.
Repeat the procedure above and choose the No Color option if you want to get rid of the highlight color.
Highlight text in Microsoft PowerPoint
The procedures shown below can be used to highlight text in color on a PowerPoint slide.
- Open the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation where the text you wish to be colored-highlighted is located.
- Find the text you want to highlight.
Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging the mouse left or right to select the text with the mouse. - Click the down arrow next to Text Highlight Color on the Home tab of the Ribbon.
- Choose the color you want to highlight the text with from the highlight color drop-down menu.
Now the text has a colored highlight.
Repeat the previous steps and choose a different color in step 4 to alter the highlight color.
Repeat the procedure above and choose the No Color option if you want to get rid of the highlight color.