How to highlight over an image in google docs?

If you’re wondering how you may highlight different things on Google Docs, the following post should help you figure it out.

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When working on a document on Google Docs, you may want others to look at certain portions of the written text with more focus than the rest. You can get this done by highlighting a word, phrase, or sentence by assigning a different color to them.

To highlight texts in a document, select the text you want to highlight by clicking and dragging a word or a bunch of words you feel should be focused more on.

If you’re someone who prefers a keyboard shortcut over dragging your mouse, you can move the cursor to the starting location of your desired selection and then start highlight the next by holding the Shift key on your keyboard and then pressing the Left/Right arrow repeatedly or hold it for the time your preferred text has been selected.

You can select one word at a time by holding down Shift + Ctrl (Option) and then select one word or multiple words using the Left/Right arrow keys.

You may also want to highlight a whole text line in a document by holding down Shift + End on Windows PCs. On Macs, you can select a portion of the text from the beginning or middle to the end of a line by holding down the Shift + Command shortcut and then using the Left/Right arrow keys to select the preferred text.

Once you have made your text selection, you can highlight them by clicking on the Highlighter icon from the top. This icon will be marked by a marker pen in the same line as Bold, Italics, and Underline icons.

In case you don’t see the Highlighter icon from the toolbar, you should see inside the overflow menu that can be accessed by clicking the 3-dots icon on the far right side of the toolbar.

When you click on the Highlighter icon, you will be shown a bunch of colors you can pick to highlight the text you selected. Select the color you want to use to lay over your selected text.

By default, you will have a handful of colors to pick from. But if you aren’t satisfied with these choices, you can add your own color to the library by clicking the ‘+’ button at the bottom.

Next, you can enter the color’s hex code or choose one by browsing through the color hue.

You can repeat the steps above to highlight various portions of text with different colors wherever you deem it necessary.

For highlighting texts inside a document on the Google Docs app, open a document on the app and then tap on the Edit icon at the bottom right corner.

Move to the location where you want to highlight texts. Before highlighting, you need to select the text you want to highlight which you can do by tapping and holding on the starting word and then dragging it across adjacent words or lines depending upon the portion you may want to highlight.

When you have selected the text to highlight, tap on the Format icon at the top of the screen. The format icon will be marked by an A with multiple dashes next to it.

This will bring up a bunch of options under Text and Paragraph sub-headings.

Under the Text tab, tap on the ‘Highlight color’ option.

Next, select the color you want to pick as the highlight for the text. You can choose different color palettes under each color hue at the top.

That’s it. You have successfully applied a highlight color to the selected text.

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Besides text, you can also highlight images inside your document on Google Docs.

Highlighting an image on Google Docs can be done by adding a border around it. When you using Google Docs on your computer, open the document you’re working on and select the image you want to highlight.

Once the image you want to highlight has been selected, click on the Border color icon from the toolbar above the document.

This should open the colors overflow menu from where you can select the color you want to apply as the image border. Click on the color you want to apply.

When you pick a border color, it will now show up all around the image.

You can further tweak this border by selecting the border thickness and border type. Both these tools are available adjacent to the Border color icon from the toolbar.

Border thickness can be modified anywhere between 1 pt and 24 pt.

As for the border type, you can choose a solid line, dotted line, or a dashed line.

For highlighting images in a document, follow the steps below.

First, open the document and get into editing mode by tapping the Edit icon at the bottom right corner.

Next, tap on an image you want to highlight.

When the image is selected, tap on the Format icon at the top of the screen. The format icon will be marked by an A with multiple dashes next to it.

This will bring up a bunch of options under Paragraph and Image sub-headings.

Under the Image tab, tap on the ‘Border color’ section.

Next, select the color you want to pick as the highlight for the image. You can choose different color palettes under each color hue at the top.

The applied highlight color will now be shown all around the image.

You can further tweak this border by selecting the border thickness and border type. Both these tools are available under the ‘Image’ tab and are mentioned as “Border weight” and “Border dash”.

For the border type, you can choose a solid line, dotted line, or a dashed line.

The end result will look something like this.

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You can also highlight elements of a table inside Google Docs like you would do to texts and images in a document.

Google Docs lets you change the background color of a single cell or multiple cells to highlight certain parts of a table. To change the cell background, select a cell, right-click on it, and then select the ‘Table properties’ option from the menu that appears.

When a new Table properties window pops up, click on the color box under the ‘Cell background color’ section.

Now, pick a color you want to apply as your cell background.

Once you’ve picked a background, click on the ‘OK’ button below.

You will now return to the document page and will be able to see the selected color applied on the cell that you chose to highlight.

If you want a table to stand out from the rest of the document, you can change its border and thickness. For this, right-click on any cell of the table you want to highlight and then select the ‘Table properties’ option from the menu.

Inside Table properties,  click on the color box under the ‘Table border’ section.

Now, choose the color you want to apply as the border for the selected table.

Additionally, you can select the thickness of the border by selecting one from under the ‘Table border’ section. You can alter the border thickness anywhere between 1 and 6 pt.

Once you’ve made the changes, click on the ‘OK’ button below.

Your table will now have a border all around it in the color that you selected.

The ability to add cell background and table borders is unavailable on the Google Docs app.

Humans are wired to be drawn to visuals, and visuals are also a great way to highlight whatever point you're making. We've shown you how to use Google Docs, but now we'll dive into inserting and editing images in the app. So here's everything you need to know.

The simplest way to insert an image is click-and-drag. Just find the image you want to insert and drag it from your computer's file browser to the browser window, wherever you want the image to be up in your document. The image will upload and show up right where you dragged it.

There are a few more ways to add images, though. Browse to Insert > Image in the menu bar and you'll see a few options:

Don't feel overwhelmed: For the most part, you're probably going to click and drag images from your computer.

So you've inserted an image. Now what?

You can resize by clicking and dragging the blue squares in the corners and sides of the image frame. Then you'll have to decide how your image will relate to the text: In line, wrap text, or Break text.

The first choice, In line, treats the image like it's a piece of text. Words will show up right before and right after the image.

This is useful for small images, like symbols or emoji, that you want to incorporate in the text itself.

The second option, Wrap text, will wrap the text around your image.

The third option, Break text, will force the text to appear below and above the image.

Resize your image then play with these three options until everything looks just right.

A few image-specific items show up in the toolbar when an image is selected.

The button on the left, which looks like a pencil, will add a border to your image.

You can choose any color for your border, as seen above. You can also choose how thick the border should be using the next button.

Finally, you can choose whether the border should be solid or have a pattern using the next button.

Fine tune your border until it looks just the way you want it. I'm pretty happy with mine.

You can do some very basic image editing in Google Docs. First, there's cropping, which allows you to re-frame the image. You can get started by clicking the crop button, which is to the right of the border tools outlined above.

You can now move the border of your image, allowing you to crop out the sides. This is very useful if you want to focus less on the landscape and more on the very good dog who is the actual subject of the picture.

You can also adjust levels and bluntly recolor the image. Click Image options in the toolbar and a sidebar will show up.

The Recolor option will, so far as I can tell, completely wash out your image with a certain color. More interesting are the bars for adjusting transparency, brightness, and contrast. Feel free to mess around: The Reset button can restore your image to how it looked before you messed with it.

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Adding images to your document can make it more visually appealing. Google Docs uses Google Search to find and provide images for you to choose from, so it's likely you'll find one that matches your needs. If you have a picture of your own that you want to use, you can upload an image.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to upload, search for, and insert images. You'll also learn how to edit the size and position of an image.

Watch the video below to learn more about inserting images.

When you search for an image in Google Docs, it's important to know that almost all of the images Google finds will belong to someone else. Google tries to filter the results to only show free Creative Commons images, but it is important to go to the source of an image to check the copyright license. For more information on how to use images found on the Internet, read our lesson on Copyright and Fair Use.

To delete an image, select it and press the Backspace or Delete key on your keyboard.

Google Docs offers several additional options for inserting images. If you have the URL of an image or collection of images stored in online albums or in your Google Drive, you can easily access and insert these pictures as well. Always remember to check the copyright license of an image before placing it in your document.

Sometimes when you insert an image or a picture from a file, you may find that you will need to change the position of the image or resize it to make it look well placed in your document.

You may notice that it is difficult to change the position of the image to another location in the document. This is because of the text wrapping settings on the image. You'll need to change the text wrapping setting if you want to move the image freely, or if you just want the text to wrap around the image in a more natural way. The positioning options are:

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