Microsoft Word For Mac How To Highlight Sentence
Longer words and longer sentence increases the reading level of your content. The standard method is called the “Flesch/FleschKincaid readability test.” (For us Mac people, FYI: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac is WAY better than the 2008 version!
Here’s another example of a seemingly simple Office feature that has hidden depths – Highlighting. For a long time, there’s been a highlight option in Office: Word, Excel, Outlook and even PowerPoint (albeit in a different form). They vary a little in each program so this article will go through them all, mentioning alternatives and workarounds too. Word Highlighting is there on the Home Tab. The usual Yellow color but also other colors.
Some of the darker colors have limited usefulness because they are almost unreadable with black text. Highlighting can be done in two ways: • Select first. The usual way to format text; select the text then click on the highlight button to apply. • Select second. Click on the Highlight button then select the text to highlight. This emulates the way a physical highlight pen would work. The mouse cursor changes to indicate you’re in highlight mode.
Press Escape to stop highlighting. Or return to the Highlight menu and choose ‘Stop Highlighting’. ‘No Color’ can be used to reverse previous highlighting. Why use highlighting? Highlighting can be used two different ways in a document, worksheet or email. As decoration Obviously, to draw attention to some important text: As a reminder to you. Perhaps less obvious is a reminder to you, the author, of something you need to change or review.
Use highlight in longer or complex documents as a quick marker of places that you need to return to. It’s easy to see highlights as you’re scanning the document later. Highlighting is the quick alternative to adding Comments to a document. In many cases you don’t need to write a full comment, the highlight is enough to remind you.
Of course, you could combine both highlights and comments but that’s usually not necessary. Searching for Highlighted text While highlighted text is often used to mark parts of a draft that need more work. There’s always the risk that the final document will go out with highlighted, unfinished, text still in place!
Prevent that by searching your document for Highlighting. This is one of the useful, but hidden, advantages of Highlighting – it’s searchable. Use the Advanced Find dialog to do this: This example will find all highlighted parts of the document (an empty ‘Find What’). Use Format Highlight to find highlights (any color). Click on Find Next to jump between highlighted passages.
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You can leave the Advanced Find dialog open while you change the highlighted text then click Find Next to move along to the next one. Find – Reading Highlight The Find feature also has highlighting. Any search results are highlighted with Yellow. While it looks the same as the formatting option, it’s only temporary while the search is active. You can get the same effect with Advanced Find from the Reading Highlight option: Outlook Outlook uses Word to run the email editor so many Word features are available when you’re writing emails. That includes Finding highlighted text and the Find Reading Highlight of results. PowerPoint PowerPoint does NOT have a Highlight button which is a strange omission and inconsistent with the other Office programs.
Don’t give up because PowerPoint supports Highlight formatting even though you can’t apply it directly. Make the text with highlights in Word and copy it.
Paste the text into a PowerPoint slide using ‘Keep Source Formatting’, which retains the formatting: Microsoft’s recommended alternative to Highlighting in PowerPoint is the Glow option in Format Text Text Effects: The results differ depending on the size of the text. ‘Glow’ surrounds the text lines so it extends ‘up’ for capitals, ‘down’ for dropped letters like ‘g’ and gaps in the middle of letters in larger sizes.