How do I highlight text in a document?

Highlight text by using the easy-to-use highlight tool or the text tools.

HIGHLIGHT TOOL

Method One: 

1. From the Popular or Annotate category, select the Highlight tool on the toolbar.
2. Click the drop-down arrow and choose between Text Highlight or Freehand Highlight. 
   1. Text Highlight: automatically recognizes text, and highlights them neatly.
   2. Freehand Highlight: follows the way your cursor is dragged. This works well with scanned images.
3. Select your desired color and opacity from the menu button.
   
   
   
4. Drag your cursor along the text you want to highlight.
   

Method Two: 

1. Click the Select option on the toolbar.
   
2. Drag the cursor over your selected text. Then, select from the Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, or Strikeout tools in the toolbar that appears under the selected text. 

UNDERLINE TOOL

Method One: 

1. From the Annotate category, select the Underline tool on the toolbar.
   
2. Select the text tool you want:
   • Underline
   • Squiggly underline
   • Strikeout
     
     
3. Drag your cursor along the text you want to highlight with an underline, squiggly, or strikeout (see examples below).

Method Two: 

1. Click the Select option on the toolbar.
   
2. Drag the cursor over your selected text. Then, select from the Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, or Strikeout tools in the toolbar that appears under the selected text. 
   

Edit your highlight:

1. Click on your highlight and then a toolbar and two blue dots at the start and the end of your highlight will appear.
   
2. Drag the blue end dots to adjust (add/remove) the highlighted text.
3. Use the toolbar to comment, change the style (color/opacity), delete, or hyperlink the highlight.  

Note: You can easily view all the annotations and comments on a document through the comments history section.

• Click on a listed highlight in the Panel to add a comment to the highlight.
• Click on a listed highlight in the Panel, then click the three dots that appear on the right to Edit (add a comment), Delete (deleting it in the panel will also delete it from the document), or Export it (will automatically download as a text file).
  

Tip: You can select the Highlight and other text tools using keyboard shortcuts.

Squiggly	G
Strikeout	K
Highlight	H
Underline	U