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Highlight Sentence or Word in Text

Highlight specific words or sentences in your text with customizable colors and styles. Perfect for emphasizing important content, creating study materials, analyzing text, presentations, and documentation. Choose from multiple highlight styles and colors to make your text stand out. Free, fast, and easy-to-use text highlighter tool.




🎯 Highlight Options

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About Highlight Sentence or Word in Text

The Highlight Sentence or Word in Text tool is a versatile text emphasis utility that allows you to visually highlight specific words, sentences, or phrases with customizable colors and styles. This powerful tool offers 16 different highlight styles ranging from simple background colors to complex combinations like shadow boxes and styled underlines, making it perfect for creating study materials, emphasizing key points in presentations, analyzing text patterns, preparing teaching materials, and creating visually organized documentation.

This tool is ideal for students creating highlighted study notes and flashcards, teachers preparing educational materials with emphasized concepts, content creators highlighting important messages in posts, researchers marking significant findings in text analysis, writers emphasizing key points in manuscripts, and professionals creating visually organized presentations and documents. The advanced options include case sensitivity, whole-word matching, match counting, and the ability to highlight multiple terms simultaneously with different visual treatments.

Why Highlighting Works: Research shows that visual highlighting helps with information retention and recall by drawing attention to important content. Color-coded highlighting can categorize information, making complex text easier to process and remember. Studies indicate that students who use effective highlighting strategies retain up to 30% more information compared to those who don't highlight at all.

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Features

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16 Highlight Styles

Choose from 16 professional styles including background colors, various underlines (straight, double, wavy, dotted), box borders (rounded, dashed, thick, shadow), text formatting (bold, italic), and powerful combinations like background with bold or box with underline for maximum visual impact.

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Custom Color Picker

Select any highlight color and text color using intuitive color pickers. Create color-coded highlighting systems for categorizing information, match your brand colors, or use high-contrast combinations for maximum readability and visual appeal.

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4 Highlight Modes

Select between highlighting specific words individually, entire sentences, multi-word phrases, or all occurrences of a word throughout your text. Each mode serves different purposes from precise single-word emphasis to comprehensive document-wide highlighting.

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Multiple Term Support

Highlight multiple different words, sentences, or phrases simultaneously by separating them with commas. Perfect for emphasizing several key concepts at once or creating comprehensive study materials with multiple highlighted terms.

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Smart Matching Options

Toggle case sensitivity for precise or flexible matching, enable whole-word matching to avoid partial matches (e.g., "cat" won't match "category"), and control exactly how your search terms are identified within the text.

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Match Statistics

View real-time statistics showing total characters, word count, and number of matches found. Track how many instances of your search terms appear in the text, perfect for text analysis and ensuring comprehensive highlighting.

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Number Matches

Automatically number each highlighted match in sequence. This feature is invaluable for creating reference materials, tracking mentions in long documents, or teaching students to identify patterns in text analysis exercises.

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Real-Time Preview

Watch your highlights apply instantly as you type search terms or adjust settings. The live preview lets you experiment with different styles, colors, and options, seeing results immediately without manual updates.

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Copy Formatted Text

Copy your highlighted text with formatting preserved for pasting into documents, presentations, or other applications. The visual highlighting transfers to maintain your emphasis in the destination document.

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Educational Features

Perfect for creating study materials with color-coded information, preparing teaching resources with emphasized concepts, highlighting vocabulary in language learning, and creating visually organized reference materials that enhance learning and retention.

  • No registration required - start highlighting instantly
  • Completely free with unlimited highlighting
  • Perfect for study notes, presentations, and documentation
  • Great for text analysis and content emphasis
  • Ideal for creating visually organized materials
  • Works with any text length from sentences to full documents
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How to Use

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Choose Highlight Mode and Style

Select your highlight mode (specific words, sentences, phrases, or all occurrences) from the first dropdown. Then choose your visual style from 16 options including backgrounds, underlines, boxes, and combinations. Pick colors using the color pickers - highlight color for the emphasis and text color for readability.

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Configure Match Options

Customize matching behavior with checkboxes: enable case sensitivity for exact case matching, use whole word matching to avoid partial matches, show match count to see how many instances were found, or number matches to add sequential numbers to each highlighted term.

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Enter Text and Search Terms

Paste or type your text into the input field. Then enter the words, sentences, or phrases you want to highlight in the search box. For multiple terms, separate them with commas (e.g., "important, success, hello"). Watch as highlights appear instantly in the preview.

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Review and Copy Results

Check the output section to see your beautifully highlighted text. Review the statistics to see total characters, words, and matches found. Click "Copy Result" to copy the formatted text to your clipboard for use in documents, presentations, or study materials.

Pro Tips for Effective Highlighting: Use different colors for different categories (e.g., yellow for main ideas, green for supporting details, pink for vocabulary). Avoid over-highlighting - emphasize only 10-20% of text for maximum effectiveness. Use bold or box styles for critical information and lighter backgrounds for secondary points. For study materials, use "number matches" to create question references. Combine background colors with bold for headers and important terms. Use wavy or dotted underlines for questions or uncertain information.

Background Color

This is highlighted text

Underline Style

This is underlined text

Box Border

This is boxed text

Background + Bold

This is emphasized text

Multiple Terms

Term1 and Term2 highlighted

Numbered Matches

1. word and 2. word