I realize that this thread is really old, but perhaps it's still alive enough to find someone to help me out. On a daily basis, I have different documents in which I need to highlight certain words (they change with every doc). I'd like an easy way to tell Google Docs to highlight the words in yellow each time. The previous posts seem to provide some info, but I can't figure out how to get any of them to run properly. I'd like to envision a Google Docs "template" to which I would copy the text. Then, I could run some type of script based on the keywords (even if I have to manually edit the script each time) to highlight the words. I could then copy that altered text into the final document. But, I need step by step instructions on how to get this