Highlight text in Pages on Mac

1. Select the text you want to highlight.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Press Shift-Command-H on the keyboard.

   • Choose Insert > Highlight from the Insert menu at the top of your screen. (The Insert button on the Pages toolbar doesn’t have the Highlight command.)

   • Click Highlight in the review toolbar at the top of the document. The review toolbar is visible only if there are already comments, highlights, or tracked changes in the document.

     

You can’t highlight text in table cells, but you can add conditional highlighting to a cell to change the cell’s appearance based on its value.

1. Move the pointer over the highlighted text.

2. Click “Add a comment,” then type your comment.

3. Click Done.

You can also add a comment to highlighted text in the Comments & Changes sidebar on the left. To open it, click in the toolbar, then choose Show Comments Pane.

• Move the pointer over the highlighted text, then click Delete.

If the Delete button doesn't appear, that means the highlight was added as color behind the text. To remove it, remove the background color.

You can quickly remove highlights and comments from body text in your document.

1. Select the text where you want to remove highlights and comments.

   To remove them for all body text in the document, press Command-A on your keyboard.

2. Choose Edit > Remove Highlights and Comments (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).

Highlights and comments on text in text boxes, shapes, and tables are not affected.