WPS Highlight is a text highlighting feature for marking important content in documents; 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 | Matches the number of membership-related rows in the index |
About This Feature
Overview
Highlight is a built-in text marking feature in WPS Office for Windows. It adds a visible color background to selected text so you can locate key content faster, review revisions more easily, or scan matched results in one place.
Core capabilities include:
- Apply a highlight color to selected text for key paragraphs or keywords.
- Highlight all matched results in Find for batch review of repeated words, terms, or content to revise.
- Remove existing highlighting with No Color before finalizing document formatting.
Common use cases include document review, study notes, and contract checking. It helps when important content is hard to locate or when search results need to be reviewed together. The feature is available from the Home tab, so common marking, finding, and clearing actions stay close to the main editing workflow.
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 | Local text editing and highlighting do not require a constant internet connection |
| Other | You need an editable text document and basic editing permission |
Download & Installation
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Official download | WPS Office Free Download |
| Check after installation | Open WPS Writer, then open a document and confirm that Highlight is available on the Home tab |
Source: WPS download page
Compare with Alternatives
| Dimension | WPS | Microsoft | Notion | Adobe | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability Summary | Supports applying a highlight color to selected text, highlighting all matched Find results, and clearing highlights with No Color. | Word supports highlighting selected text or graphics, removing highlights, and quickly finding highlighted content. | Google Docs supports highlighting text from the toolbar and also supports custom colors. | Notion supports applying text color or highlight color to selected text and lets users reuse colors with shortcuts. | Acrobat Desktop Help provides entry points for PDF editing, text editing, and annotation workflows, but the overview page does not present a direct text highlight workflow equivalent to word-processing highlight steps. |
| WPS Advantages | Advantage: text highlighting, Find-result highlighting, and highlight clearing are all part of the same document editing flow for everyday review and markup. | Compared with WPS: Word also includes a persistent highlight tool and a way to find highlighted items; the WPS workflow here focuses on selected-text highlighting, Find-result highlighting, and clearing. | Compared with WPS: Google Docs offers custom colors, but its official guidance focuses on browser toolbar actions; WPS here is centered on the Windows desktop writing workflow. | Compared with WPS: Notion treats highlighting as part of page and text styling, and this page does not focus on a document-style highlight-all-search-results workflow. | Compared with WPS: Adobe's official desktop help is broader and more focused on PDF editing and navigation, so the text highlight entry for standard word processing is less direct in this comparison. |
| Official Source | — | Apply or remove highlighting | Change the color of text, objects, and backgrounds | Style & customize your page | Acrobat Desktop Help |
Overall Conclusion
WPS Highlight works well for quickly marking key content, reviewing Find results, and clearing highlights during document editing on Windows. If your main need is everyday text review and document checking, these built-in actions cover common tasks efficiently. If you need broader web styling workflows or PDF-focused processes, the official tools from those products may fit those scenarios better.
Use Cases
| No. | Scenario | Suitable for | Main pain point | How it helps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark key paragraphs | Students, editors | Important parts are hard to revisit in long documents | Select text and apply a highlight color |
| 2 | Review repeated keywords | Proofreaders, legal reviewers | The same terms are scattered across the document | Use Find and highlight all matched content |
| 3 | Remove review marks | Document organizers | Highlights need to be removed before final delivery | Use No Color to clear highlighting |
| 4 | Organize class notes | Students, trainers | Knowledge points are not visually separated | Use different highlight colors to separate focus areas |
| 5 | Review contract clauses | Administrative and business users | Key clauses need repeated checking | Highlight amounts, dates, and responsibility clauses |
Membership & Benefits
Free vs WPS Premium
| Capability | Free users | WPS Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Highlight text | ✅ Available | ✅ Available |
| Highlight all Find results | ✅ Available | ✅ Available |
| Clear highlighting | ✅ Available | ✅ Available |
| More advanced PDF tools and extended features | Some features are limited | More advanced tools and extended features are available |
| Cloud storage | 1 GB | 20 GB |
Source: WPS Office pricing page
Recommendations
| Usage scenario | Recommended plan | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday reading, study marking, and basic document review | Free | Highlight-related core actions are available directly |
| Frequent work across multiple document types with broader advanced tools | WPS Premium | Better suited when you also need more extended tools and larger cloud storage |
How to Subscribe
- WPS membership center: Subscribe now
Source: WPS Office pricing page