How to highlight in Google Sheets

How to highlight in Google Sheets

Sometimes you need to highlight some important parts of your document. Google Sheets provides you with a few easiest options to highlight. In this article, we will discuss a step-by-step guide to highlight in Google Sheets.

How to highlight in Google Sheets

Follow the below steps to highlight cells in Google Sheets.

  1. Click on one particular cell and drag with your mouse cursor toward up or down or side to select all the cells.
how to highlight cells in google sheets

2. Click on the Fill color option from the top as highlighted below.

how to highlight cell in google sheets

3. Select the desired color from the color palette. You can also choose alternating colors or conditional formatting.

how to highlight a cell in google sheets
how to highlight column in google sheets

Now, you can able to see below the data is highlighted with the selected color.

how to highlight two columns in google sheets

How to highlight text in Google Sheets

To highlight text in Google Sheets, just follow the below steps

  1. Click on one cell that contains text and then drag with your mouse cursor to select all the cells with text.
how to highlight text in google sheets

2. Click on the Text color option from the top as highlighted below.

how to highlight certain text in google sheets

3. Select the preferred color from the color palette. You can also use the Conditional formatting option by clicking on that link.

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4. After clicking the desired color, the selected text got highlighted successfully. See the below screenshot.

how to highlight cells with certain text in google sheets

Related FAQs

Q: Can you highlight in Google Sheets

Answer: Yes, you can click and drag with your mouse cursor to select the desired range of cells and then choose the preferred color by clicking on the Fill color option from the toolbar to highlight.

Q: How to remove highlight in Google Sheets?

Answer:

  • Click and drag with your mouse cursor to select the highlighted cells.
  • Click on the Fill color option –> Choose None from the color palette.
How to remove highlight in Google Sheets

You can able to see the Highlight option removed successfully.

how to remove highlights in google sheets

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Conclusion

It is so easy to highlight in Google Sheets using the above information mentioned in this article. Thanks for reading this article !!!