Highlighting Text on Desktop
If you’re using Docs from the website, choose some text and then pick a color from the highlighter button. Here’s how:
Highlighter Add-ons
There are also Google Docs add-ons that provide highlighting functionality if you want extra features. Highlight Tool is one example that provides several options you can’t get with Docs’ built-in highlighter: If you don’t see one from the list that you want to use, select the plus button at the bottom; you can adjust the hue or enter the color’s hex value for an exact match.
Save colors to a library. You could make a set called Answers, for example, and build red and green buttons for highlighting wrong and right answers in a school worksheet.Choose a color set from your library to provide quick access to its buttons in the sidebar.Import and export specific color sets or your whole library. You or someone else can then import the highlighter sets into Google Docs for color consistency between documents, great for collaborators.
Highlight in Google Docs Mobile App
The mobile app requires a few more steps than the website to show the highlighter menu. Repeat steps 2–4 as many times as needed.
