How to highlight text in a PDF

September 14, 2026
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1. Use WPS Office to open the PDF file.

2. Click the Hometab→ and then click the Highlightbutton.

3. We can see the icon of mouse cursor has changed to a pen. Now select the needed content, then the text will be highlighted successfully.

With WPS PDF, you can easily read, edit, and manage PDF pages on android and easily convert between PDF and other types of documents. Currently support doc/ppt/word/excel/image/xls.

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