Then, click on “Link to document” to open up a new window that contains your highlighted notes, organized by color in a neat and organized document.If you’re just making a few notes you can export them to the bottom of the current document, but you can also export them to a new document instead. Choose “Export by color,” which brings up a window. Now, head down to the Export Highlights section of the pane.To highlight a section of text in your document, highlight it with your mouse as normal, then head over the right side of the page and click on the color label that you’d like to apply.To add another highlighter, click the plus icon at the bottom of the screen. You can label your highlighter and then choose a different color for it. You can create your own highlighters by clicking on the Create highlighters button at the bottom of the screen.Click on Start, and a menu will open up on the right-hand side. Head back up to the Add-ons menu in Docs and choose the Highlight Tool.Allow the add-on permission to access your Docs.

Search for Highlight Tool, and then install the add on.

Head to the top of your Docs screen and click on Add-ons > Get add ons.

Luckily, there’s a great way to highlight and color code specific ideas and then export them to another document, so that your ideas are all instantly and neatly organized for you. But at the end of the day, you’re either left with a messy rainbow-colored document, or you have to do a lot of copying and pasting to organize all your ideas. If you want to color code ideas or themes in Google Docs, the highlighter tool is useful.

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