How to Highlight the Selected Text in Google Docs

Step 1: Sign into your Google Account

As an initial step, navigate to docs.google.com. If you are not signed in using your Gmail account, then log in to your Gmail account first. Refer to this for how to do Google Sign-in. Once you are signed in, you should see the screen below:

Step 2: Open the existing/blank document

Open a new blank document or existing document from the list of recent documents. For this example, we will be using an existing document from the list of “Recent documents”.

Step 3: Select the text that is to be highlighted

As in the image below, select the text which you want to highlight with some color. If you want to highlight all the text in the entire document, press Ctrl + A on the keyboard. Now press the option as shown in the below image to highlight the text.

Step 4: Select the color from the color palette

Click the brush icon to open color palette for highlighting as shown in the image below. Select the color of your choice to highlight the text using the opened color palette.

We will apply the green color for highlighting the selected text.

You can see that the text we selected is now highlighted using green colour which we had chosen. You can also apply custom colours and provide either “RGB” or “Hex” values to highlight with a different color.

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