WPS Highlight is a text-marking feature for adding background color to selected text; it includes 3 core tasks, with 3 available without membership and 0 membership-related items.
At a Glance
| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Core tasks | 3 | Matches the number of rows in the How-to Index |
| Available without membership | 3 | Matches the number of Free rows in the index |
| Membership-related items | 0 | All listed tasks are available directly |
About This Feature
Overview
Highlight is a text formatting feature in WPS on Windows that adds a visible background color to selected text. It helps you mark key content, review important paragraphs, and organize document edits more efficiently.
Core tasks include:
- Choose a highlight color: Open the Highlight drop-down on the Home tab and apply a color to selected text.
- Remove highlighting: Clear the existing highlight and return text to its normal appearance.
- Use the floating toolbar for highlighting: Apply highlight directly from the floating toolbar after selecting text.
This feature is useful for study notes, document review, collaborative editing, and quick emphasis in long documents.
System Requirements
| Item | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Operating system | A Windows device that can run WPS Office normally |
| App version | It is recommended to use the latest version of WPS Office |
| Network | No required internet connection for local highlighting; a connection is recommended for sign-in and cloud collaboration |
| Other | You need an editable text document opened in edit mode |
Download & Installation
Before using Highlight, install WPS Office on your Windows device.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Official download | WPS Office Free Download |
| Check after installation | Open WPS, open a text document, and confirm that the Highlight entry appears on the Home tab or in the floating toolbar after selecting text |
Source: WPS download page
Compare with Alternatives
| Dimension | WPS | Microsoft | Notion | Adobe | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability Summary | Lets you apply a highlight color from the Home tab or the floating toolbar, and also clear highlighting from selected text. | Word lets you highlight selected text or graphics from Home > Text Highlight Color, remove highlighting, and find highlighted text. | Google Docs official product information focuses on online document creation and collaboration, while the public help page here focuses on drawings and markups rather than a matching text highlight workflow. | Notion lets you apply text color or highlight color to selected text, and it also supports reapplying the last text or highlight color with a shortcut. | Acrobat provides highlight markup in PDF commenting workflows, mainly for PDF review and annotation rather than standard word-processing page editing. |
| WPS Advantages | Advantage: On Windows, WPS provides a direct path from both the Home tab and the floating toolbar, so applying or clearing text highlight is quick during editing. | Compared with WPS: Word also includes finding highlighted text, but its official guidance centers on the ribbon workflow. | Compared with WPS: Google's public official pages here do not present a similarly direct text highlight entry for this feature context and focus more on collaboration or markup-related content. | Compared with WPS: Notion highlighting is part of page styling and block editing, so the workflow differs from a traditional word processor. | Compared with WPS: Adobe highlighting is centered on PDF annotation rather than in-document text formatting on a word-processing page. |
| Official Source | — | Apply or remove highlighting | Google Docs product page | Style and customize your page | Commenting on PDFs |
Overall Conclusion: If you mainly need to highlight important text quickly in documents on Windows, WPS offers a straightforward workflow with both ribbon and floating-toolbar access. Other products provide related capabilities, but their official workflows are more focused on office-suite extensions, online collaboration pages, or PDF review.
Use Cases
| No. | Scenario | Suitable for | Main challenge | How Highlight helps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Review key passages | Editors and reviewers | Important content needs to stand out for follow-up | Apply highlight color to mark text that needs attention |
| 2 | Study note extraction | Students and trainees | Key points are hard to revisit in long documents | Use highlight colors to separate important knowledge points |
| 3 | Team document organization | Team members | Important sections are easy to miss during collaboration | Select text and highlight it from the floating toolbar |
| 4 | Remove old emphasis | Document maintainers | Existing marks need to be cleared cleanly | Use No Color to remove highlighting |
| 5 | Faster formatting | Frequent editors | Switching menus repeatedly slows editing | Apply highlight directly from the floating toolbar |
Membership & Benefits
Free vs WPS Premium
Highlight itself is available without membership. WPS Premium pages describe broader advanced office and PDF capabilities, so whether to subscribe depends on your overall document workflow.
| Capability | Free users | WPS Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Highlight text | ✅ Available | ✅ Available |
| Remove highlighting | ✅ Available | ✅ Available |
| Highlight from floating toolbar | ✅ Available | ✅ Available |
| Additional advanced office features | Use what is available in the product | More advanced capabilities may be included depending on the plan |
Source: WPS Office pricing page
Recommendations
| Usage scenario | Recommended plan | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Daily text highlighting and basic editing | Free | Highlight is available directly with no membership requirement |
| Broader advanced office or PDF work | WPS Premium | Suitable if you need more than text highlighting in your document workflow |
How to Subscribe
- WPS membership center: Subscribe now
Source: WPS Office pricing page