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Read&Write Highlighting Tool

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The highlighting tool allows you to highlight useful information and collect those highlights into a Word document for offline reading. The collect vocab tool lets you use the highlighting tool to highlight single words and creates a Word document with definitions.

Highlighting

Using the Read&Write highlighting tool is a good way to gather important information from a page.

  • Open Read&Write.
  • Select the text you wish to highlight.
SNHU.edu web page with text highlighted.
  • Click on any of the four highlighting icons in the toolbar to highlight the text in that color. The Colors are used to organize highlights.
Highlighting icons  in Read&Write toolbar.
  • Repeat the previous steps until you have finished highlighting on the page.
SNHU.edu webpage with text highlighted using read&write

Note for the Read&Write browser extension: If you navigate away from the current page, you will lose all currently highlighted items on that page.

Collecting Highlights

The Collect Highlights tools downloads highlighted text to your device as a Microsoft Word Document.

  • After you have highlighted items on the page, click on the “Collect highlights” icon.
Collect highlights icon in Read&Write toolbar.
  • Choose to sort highlights either by color or position and choose which color highlights you wish to collect.
  • Click “Ok.”
Collect highlights menu options in Read&Write.
  • A Microsoft Word Document of the highlighted text will be downloaded to your device.
Word document with collected highlights on each line.

Collecting Vocab

The Collect Vocab tool provides dictionary definitions of highlighted words in a Microsoft Word Document. This tool is best used when highlighting single words. Example:

SNHU.edu web page with single words highlighted using the Read&Write highlight tool.
  • Click on the “Vocabulary List” icon.
Vocabulary List icon in Read&Write toolbar.
  • Choose Which color highlights you wish to collect.
  • Click “Ok.”
Read&Write "Collect Vocab" menu.
  • A Microsoft Word Document will be downloaded. The document will contain a table with four columns. The word, its definition, a picture dictionary icon, and a space for personal notes.
Vocabulary list document.

Clearing Highlights

You can use the "Clear Highlights" tool to remove one or more highlights on a page.

  • Select the text where you wish to remove the highlights.
SNHU.edu web page with highlighted text
  • Select the "Clear Highlights" tool in the Read&Write toolbar. The highlights will be removed from your selected text.
Clear highlights icon in the Read&Write toolbar.

Select the link below to watch and/or listen to the tutorial:

How to Video for Highlighting with Read&Write (00:01:00)


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