Microsoft Word's highlighting feature is used to highlight text in Word documents. The tool is similar to the highlighter pens used with print documents.

Provide students with the following directions for using the highlighter when editing a Word document:

• Go to View>Toolbars>Formatting and make sure the formatting toolbar is checked. The formatting toolbar includes tools that let users select font type, size, color, alignment, and so on.
• Find the highlighter icon.
  

  On Word X for Mac, the icon is a picture with the letters ABC slightly shaded.
  
  On Word 98 and Word XP, the icon is a slanted pen.
  

• Click the highlighter icon. To select a color for the highlighter, click the down arrow to the right of the icon and then click a color.
• Click the beginning of the text you want to highlight and drag the cursor to the end of the text you want to highlight. Release the mouse button. The text now should be highlighted in the color you selected.
• Click the highlighter icon again to quit highlighting.

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