Is it possible to highlight words

[Glenn Shimomura]

This would be the equivalent of the highlight function in Word or Outlook.

[Darryl Lee · Accepted solution]

Alas no, this is a longstanding feature request:

• CONFSERVER-27894 - Provide ability to easily highlight text with color in WYSIWYG editor 
• CONFCLOUD-27894 (Same bug for Confluence Cloud)

So out of the box, the only thing you can do is either change text color (meh) OR "highlight" words by commenting on them.

Now, because this is such an old request, there is add-on for the dearly departed Confluence Server:

• Text Highlighter for Confluence 

Additionally, there is some clever CSS hackery to "hijack" the subscript style here (I don't know if this still works in either On-Prem or Cloud):

• Highlight words in confluence text editor 

Lastly, I will leave you with this rather epic old discussion about this topic. Various macros, workarounds and hacks are discussed (again, unsure what still works, and whether it will work On-Prem vs Cloud. My gut would tell me that most solutions will not work on Cloud).

Fun stuff! But ultimately I think the unfortunate answer is a simple no.

[Glenn Shimomura]

Thanks for the info!  At least there's a hack!