Learn how to highlight text in the Apple Mail app on Mac to emphasize what you’re writing and make certain words and sentences of your email stand out from the rest.
When you’re composing an email in the Mail app on your Mac, you may want to focus more on specific text. And while there are a few options, such as bold, italic, or underline, perhaps you want that text to really stand out with colored highlighting. Unfortunately, the highlighted text isn’t one of the current built-in font options.
However, there is a way to make it an option by creating your own Style in the Mail app. If you’re interested in adding this handy way to emphasize text, here’s how to do it and highlight text in the Mail app on Mac.
Note that creating the highlight Style does take a few steps. But once you do it, you’ll be able to reuse that Style again and again. So, it’s worth a few minutes of time to set it up if you really want text highlighting in Mail.
Step 1: Create the highlight text style on Mac
1) Open an editor on your Mac that allows for text highlighting. Google Docs in a web browser is perfect. Type in some text, highlight it, and then copy the highlighted text.
2) Open the Apple TextEdit app, which comes built-in on all Macs, create a new document, and paste the highlighted text here.
3) Now, select the text in the TextEdit document, right-click, and select Font > Styles.
4) When the text appears in the box, click the Add to Favorites button.
5) Give your Style a name, like Yellow Highlight, and click Add.
That’s all there is to adding your new highlight Style. Now that you have your highlighting Style set up, it’s time to put it to good use.
Step 2: Highlight text in your email
1) Open the Mail app on your Mac and compose your email. Then, select the text you want to highlight in the email, right-click, and pick Font > Styles.
2) When the Style box opens, go to the Favorite Styles tab, click the Default drop-down menu, and choose your Style from there.
3) Finally, click Apply.
This will highlight the selected text of your email.
Remember, you can use your new highlighting Style whenever you want to make your email text stand out. And if you’ve created multiple highlight styles, you can add more of them to the same email message.
Are you going to set up a Style so that you can highlight text in your emails? Let us know!
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