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Using Read&Write's Highlighters

by Erin McCully - Thursday, August 21, 2025, 1:32 PM
 
Using Read&Write's Highlighters

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Read&Write's highlighter options. 

The Read&Write toolbar contains a set of highlighter buttons that you can use to highlight important information:

Section of the Read&Write toolbar containing buttons for Highlighter colors

You can use these buttons to mark important information in a web page or Google Docs, and follow the steps below to collect the highlighted information into a new document.

Tutorial Steps
Step 1

In Google Chrome, navigate to a website or Google doc. Ensure that the Read&Write toolbar is visible. 

Select a sentence or sentences you want to highlight, then click Highlight Yellow Dark gray highlighter pen with a yellow line under it on the Read&Write toolbar.

Try highlighting another sentence in yellow, and then one in pink. 

  Wikipedia page for International Trade with yellow and pink highlights
Step 2

Click Collect Highlights Four dark gray arrows going round in a circle.

The Collect Highlights dialog appears, enabling you to choose which colors to collect and how to sort them.

Choose to sort highlights by Color, make sure that the check boxes for both Yellow and Pink are selected, and then click OK.

 collect highlights dialog box 
Step 3

Read&Write creates a new Google Docs document containing all your highlighted sections, and then opens it in a new tab.

You can easily copy the highlighted text to a different document, for example an essay or report, or simply use the highlights document as your start point.

Note: Highlights documents may be saved to your Google Drive as Highlights Untitled. If you intend to keep a highlights document, you should rename it.

 Google Docs document containing highlighted text 


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