Help · Captions & style

How to work with highlighted words

Highlights make one word in a sentence carry the emphasis: its own colour, its own font treatment, sometimes its own size. ReadyForm picks highlights while making the edit; every one of them is editable.

  1. 1

    Check the AI's picks

    Play the video and watch which words light up. A good highlight is the point of the sentence; a bad one is just the loudest word.

  2. 2

    Mark your own

    Select a word and choose Mark as highlight, or Mark as big highlight for the oversized treatment. Make big and Make normal switch between them.

  3. 3

    Pick the layout

    Highlights come as Stacked, Inline or Big. The app guards the rules for you: only one highlight per sentence, and a layout that won't fit says so.

  4. 4

    Remove what misleads

    Remove highlight returns the word to the line. A highlight that changes how the sentence reads out of context should go.

If something looks off

  • The highlight colour is wrong for my brand. Highlight colour comes from the brand kit (Caption highlight color) and applies live in preview and export. Set it there once.
  • The big highlight won't fit. The app tells you when a layout won't fit the line. Shorten the caption group (Words per caption) or use the normal highlight.

Related: Caption colours and your brand · Customise captions · Correct caption text

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