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To highlight text within the document, select the Highlight annotation type 1. Select the color for the highlight annotation in the color panel 2. Click and drag to highlight text within the submission 3. To add a comment to the highlight annotation, click the Comment button 4. To start a new line in your comment, click the Shift+Enter. Highlight text in Pages on Mac You can temporarily highlight text in the body of your document, in text boxes, and in shapes. This is helpful, for example, if you're reviewing a document and want to call out certain parts. These highlights aren't visible in printed documents.

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In Microsoft Word, you can set up either traditional columns ornewspaper-style columns. Traditional columns are simpler to set up,but can be difficult to work with, as you have to fill the firstcolumn before you can proceed to the next. With newspaper columns,however, you can more easily switch between columns; also, informationyou enter will not overflow into another column.

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Traditional columns

To create traditional columns in a document:

Word 2007

  1. Highlight the text you want to format; if you do not highlight anytext, Word will format the entire document.
  2. Click the Page Layout tab, and then selectColumns...
  3. Choose the format of your columns. You can select a preset,automatically formatted number of columns with equal spacing byclicking One, Two, Three, orFour. You can also manually select the number, width, andspacing of the columns by clicking More columns...
  4. Click OK.

Word 2003

  1. From the Format drop-down menu, selectColumns...
  2. Choose the format of your columns. You can choose from presetcolumns, or you can manually select the number, width, and spacing ofthe columns.
  3. Click OK.

Newspaper-style columns

To create newspaper-style columns using a table:

  1. Open a new document.
  2. In Word 2007, from the Insert tab, click Table,and then select Insert Table... In other versions ofWord, from the Table menu, choose Insert, and thenchoose Table...
  3. In the 'Number of columns:' field, type the number of columns youwant in your document. For 'Number of rows:', type1 (the number one).
  4. Click OK to create your table. At this point your tablewill probably be small.

You can also add or remove table borders:

  1. Move your cursor to the table. In Word 2007, from the PageLayout tab, select Page Borders. In previous versionsof Word, from the Format menu, select Borders andShading...
  2. Choose the border options you want for your table. You can choosefrom presets (such as 'None') on the left side of the window, or youcan manually select which borders to turn on or off from the 'Preview'section on the right.
  3. Beneath the 'Preview' section, you will see 'Apply to:'. Makesure this option is set to Table if you want your borderselection to apply to the entire table.
  4. If you see gray lines where you have chosen not to have a border,don't worry. These are non-printing gridlines meant to help you seewhere your columns are. To turn gridlines on and off:
    • Word 2007: From the Layout tab, selectView Gridlines.
    • Previous versions of Word for Windows: From theTable menu, choose Hide Gridlines or ShowGridlines.
    • Word for Macintosh: From the Table menu,check or uncheck Gridlines.

Highlighting text on a web page helps bring important information immediately to the reader's attention. For example, this text is highlighted in yellow and probably caught your eye first. There are several methods for highlighting text. To proceed, select a method from the list below and follow the instructions.

Highlight using the HTML5 tag

If you are working on an HTML5 page, the tag can quickly highlight text. Below is an example of the how to use the mark tag and its result. If your browser supports the tag, 'highlighted text' should have a yellow background.

Example code

How

Example result

Here is an example of highlighted text using the tag.

World Poker Tour is the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online, and mobile. World poker tour hollywood florida wire ever won.

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Highlight text with only HTML code

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Word 2007

  1. Highlight the text you want to format; if you do not highlight anytext, Word will format the entire document.
  2. Click the Page Layout tab, and then selectColumns...
  3. Choose the format of your columns. You can select a preset,automatically formatted number of columns with equal spacing byclicking One, Two, Three, orFour. You can also manually select the number, width, andspacing of the columns by clicking More columns...
  4. Click OK.

Word 2003

  1. From the Format drop-down menu, selectColumns...
  2. Choose the format of your columns. You can choose from presetcolumns, or you can manually select the number, width, and spacing ofthe columns.
  3. Click OK.

Newspaper-style columns

To create newspaper-style columns using a table:

  1. Open a new document.
  2. In Word 2007, from the Insert tab, click Table,and then select Insert Table... In other versions ofWord, from the Table menu, choose Insert, and thenchoose Table...
  3. In the 'Number of columns:' field, type the number of columns youwant in your document. For 'Number of rows:', type1 (the number one).
  4. Click OK to create your table. At this point your tablewill probably be small.

You can also add or remove table borders:

  1. Move your cursor to the table. In Word 2007, from the PageLayout tab, select Page Borders. In previous versionsof Word, from the Format menu, select Borders andShading...
  2. Choose the border options you want for your table. You can choosefrom presets (such as 'None') on the left side of the window, or youcan manually select which borders to turn on or off from the 'Preview'section on the right.
  3. Beneath the 'Preview' section, you will see 'Apply to:'. Makesure this option is set to Table if you want your borderselection to apply to the entire table.
  4. If you see gray lines where you have chosen not to have a border,don't worry. These are non-printing gridlines meant to help you seewhere your columns are. To turn gridlines on and off:
    • Word 2007: From the Layout tab, selectView Gridlines.
    • Previous versions of Word for Windows: From theTable menu, choose Hide Gridlines or ShowGridlines.
    • Word for Macintosh: From the Table menu,check or uncheck Gridlines.

Highlighting text on a web page helps bring important information immediately to the reader's attention. For example, this text is highlighted in yellow and probably caught your eye first. There are several methods for highlighting text. To proceed, select a method from the list below and follow the instructions.

Highlight using the HTML5 tag

If you are working on an HTML5 page, the tag can quickly highlight text. Below is an example of the how to use the mark tag and its result. If your browser supports the tag, 'highlighted text' should have a yellow background.

Example code

Example result

Here is an example of highlighted text using the tag.

World Poker Tour is the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online, and mobile. World poker tour hollywood florida wire ever won.

Highlight text with only HTML code

To highlight text with HTML code and support for all browsers, set the background-color style, as shown in the example below, using the HTML tag.

Example code

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Example result

This text is highlighted text in yellow.

Tip

In the example above, the HTML tag has a background-color code of #FFFF00, which is yellow. In this case, the word 'yellow' could be used in place of the color code, or any other color name for that matter.

Tip

With the same code, you could also highlight one or more words within a paragraph to draw attention to a specific section of the text.

Highlight text with CSS & HTML

You can also create a CSS class and set the 'background-color' attribute, as shown in the example below.

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Example code

In the CSS code above, there are three elements being defined. First, the body background color is set to blue, second, a new class called 'highlightme' with a yellow background, and finally, the paragraph tag has a white background.

If you want to use the 'highlightme' class to highlight your text, you can create a tag in your HTML which references the CSS class.

Example code

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How to highlight a complete paragraph

The CSS class or style class mentioned above could also be applied to a paragraph tag if you wanted to highlight a complete paragraph as shown below.

Example code

Example result

This whole paragraph of text is highlighted in yellow.

Additional information

  • See our CSS, highlight, and HTML definition for additional information related pages.




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