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How to Highlight Text in Notion

Updated on:
June 9, 2026
By:
Madhav Bhandari
Use this interactive demo to learn how to apply background color highlights to text in Notion.

Quick summary

Notion's text highlighting feature lets you apply a background color to any selected text using the floating toolbar. This makes it easy to visually emphasize key information directly inside your Notion page.


Steps

  1. Select the text on your Notion page that you want to format.
  2. In the floating toolbar, click the A button to open color options.
  3. Choose a color under the Background section to apply the highlight.
  4. Click outside the text to close the toolbar and confirm the highlighted text.

📌 Why this matters

Notion's text highlighting feature helps users visually organize and emphasize critical information within their pages without leaving the editor. By applying background colors to selected text, teams can quickly draw attention to key ideas, action items, or warnings in shared documents. This built-in formatting capability makes Notion a more powerful knowledge management and collaboration tool, reducing the need for external annotation tools. For teams that rely on Notion as their central workspace, mastering text highlighting improves clarity and speeds up document review.
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