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.

• 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.

• Repeat the previous steps until you have finished highlighting on the page.

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.

• Choose to sort highlights either by color or position and choose which color highlights you wish to collect.
• Click “Ok.”

• A Microsoft Word Document of the highlighted text will be downloaded to your device.

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:

• Click on the “Vocabulary List” icon.

• Choose Which color highlights you wish to collect.
• Click “Ok.”

• 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.

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.

• Select the "Clear Highlights" tool in the Read&Write toolbar. The highlights will be removed from your selected text.

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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