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Marking text with permanent pen or highlighters
You can highlight text in two ways - using permanent pen or using a highlighter pen. You must be in a rich-text field to use permanent pen and highlighters.

For example, suppose you want to respond to the question in the following document:

Plain text

To make your answers stand out from the questions, use permanent pen like this:

Plain text with permanent pen

Or you can use a highlighter like this:

Highlighter

Click any of these topics:


To set permanent pen font

Permanent pen turns on automatically when you set the permanent pen font.

1. Put the document in edit mode.

2. Click Text > Text Properties and click the Font tab.

3. Select preferred font, size, style, and color for your permanent pen.

4. Click Text > Permanent Pen > Set Permanent Pen Style.

Note You can customize colors by using the color wheel button in the top right corner of the Background Color box. Color wheel

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To turn permanent pen on and off

When you turn on permanent pen, the most recent permanent pen font settings are used.

1. Put the document in edit mode.

2. Click Text > Permanent Pen > Use Permanent Pen.

Tip When permanent pen is enabled, you can strike through existing text automatically. Select the text and press Shift+Backspace. The text displays in the permanent pen font with strikethrough.

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To highlight text

1. Put the document in edit mode.

2. Click Text > Highlighter > Use <color> Highlighter.

3. Drag your mouse from left to right over the text to highlight.

4. To turn off the highlighter, click Text > Highlighter > Use <color> Highlighter again.

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To erase highlighter over text

1. Put the document in edit mode.

2. Click Text > Highlighter > Use <color> Highlighter.

3. Drag your mouse from right to left over the highlighted text.

4. To turn off the highlighter, click Text > Highlighter > Use <color> Highlighter again.

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