Highlight text with your mouse
Locate the text you want to highlight by scrolling down from the top of your document window. Keep your mouse cursor over the text, and then use your right-click button on the mouse. This will highlight the text you want to select.
If you right-click on a paragraph, the cursor will turn into a red plus sign. If you right-click on an individual word, the cursor will change to an arrow with a white plus sign.
To highlight text within a paragraph or individual word, just move your mouse over the text to highlight it. If the mouse pointer is over multiple words, press and hold down your left mouse button and drag over all of the words you want to select.
If you want to make all of the selected text black, all you have to do is press your left mouse button and drag over the text. This will highlight all of the selected text.
Select a color from the “Font Color” toolbar
Use the “Font Color” toolbar that is located at the top of your document window. You can use up to five colors with this tool, and one of those colors will automatically be assigned to your selected text. You can also choose dark or light text by clicking the “Text Color” arrow on the toolbar.
To Change the Text Color of Selected Text: 1. Select the text you want to change. 2. On the “Font Color” toolbar, click the color you want to use.
To Change All Text in the Document to a Specific Color 1. In your document, select all the text you want to be that color. 2. On the “Font Color” toolbar, click the color you want to use. 3. All the text will change.
Click on the highlight to apply the color
Right-click on the text you want to highlight and click “Highlight” or click the check mark icon to the right of “Highlight” in the Font Color toolbar. Your selected text will now have that color applied to it. Read more at: http://www.2-24funeralhome.com/Home/How_to_get_more_Highlights_in_word#ixzz1f3qAojJT
Note: The term “Highlight” is used in two different ways by Word. When you click on the check mark icon (in the toolbar) to do a manual highlight, that is a highlight on a single character/delimiter. This is different from “Highlighting,” which you often see if a word or phrase has been selected and it’s asking for your input as to whether it should be bolded or underlined. The highlight is usually a block of text with the cursor in it. “Highlighting” is typically used when you want to denote a word or phrase that is somehow of interest or importance. The word “highlight” is a technical term for what these are generally called. One situation where the terms could be confused would be if your cursor was in one of the word-processing programs and you were typing out something and happened upon a phrase that might need to be highlighted. That situation doesn’t come up too often.
