How to Change Text Color in Google Docs: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to change text colour in Google Docs with this easy guide. Whether you’re looking to highlight key points, improve document readability, or customize your content, mastering text colour in Google Docs is essential for both casual and professional users. Follow this step-by-step guide to transform your document’s appearance and make it more engaging.

How To Edit Text Color in Google Docs

Follow the below steps to change text color Google Docs in the entire document all at once and make it your default style.

Step 1: Sign into your Google Account

As an initial step, navigate to docs.google.com. If you are not signed in using your Gmail account, then log in to your Gmail account first. Refer to this for how to do Google Sign-in. Once you are signed in, you should see the screen below:

Step 2: Open the document

Let us open a new Blank Document or an existing document from the list of recent documents. For this article, we will be creating a new Blank document. Click on the "+" just above "Blank document", as highlighted in the image below.

Now, you should be able to see a new Blank document created. It will look like the one shown in the image below.

Step 3: Select the text whose color you want to update

Now let us see how we can update the text colour of all "Heading 3" in the document. Create 3-4 "Heading 3" styled text in your opened blank document.

Step 4: Changing the text color using Formatting Options in toolbar

Suppose we want to change the colour of text styled with the "Heading 3" option. To do that, let us change the color of Heading 3.1 to blue. Then, we will apply the same style to all other "Heading 3" text using formatting options.

Preview the Changes

Step 5: Applying the text colour to multiple elements in one shot

Now to apply to all "Heading 3" elements:

• Right-click inside the editor,
• In the opened options menu, click “Format options” > “Update ‘Heading 3’ to match” to apply the blue colour to all the Heading 3 elements.

You can now see that the blue color is applied to all Heading 3 elements in our document.

How to Change the Color of a Font in Google Docs

Discover how to adjust the color of specific text or parts of your document for better visual impact.

Step 1: Sign into your Google Account

As an initial step, navigate to docs.google.com. If you are not signed in using your Gmail account, then log in to your Gmail account first. Refer to this for how to do Google Sign-in. Once you are signed in, you should see the screen below:

Step 2: Open the document

Open a new Blank Document or existing document from the list of recent documents. For this article, we will be creating a new Blank document. Click on the "+" just above "Blank document", as highlighted in the image below.

Now, you should be able to see a new Blank document created. It will look like the one shown in the image below.

Now, write some text inside this blank document so that we can change its color in the next step.

Step 3: Select the text that is in the wrong color

As in the image below, select the text whose color has to be changed. If you want to select all the text in the entire document, press Ctrl + A on the keyboard. Now press the option as shown in the below image to change the text color.

Step 4: Change the Text color using Formatting Options

• Click on the text color option in the toolbar
• In the toolbar at the top, click on the "Text Color" option.

• Select the desired color from the color palette

You can see a lot of options for text colors. Choose the colour you want to from this list.

• Let's colour the selected/highlighted text with "Red". Click on the Red colour from color palette.

• Choose custom colors from the palette

Similar you can also apply any custom color to your selected text. To apply custom color,

• Open the color palette and select "Custom"
• Choose the color.

You can also give RBG or Hex values to apply your custom color.

• Now once you applied your custom color, click "OK". Now, your selected text will appear in that color.

How to Highlight the Selected Text in Google Docs

Understand how to use highlighting tools to make important text stand out in your document.

Step 1: Sign into your Google Account

As an initial step, navigate to docs.google.com. If you are not signed in using your Gmail account, then log in to your Gmail account first. Refer to this for how to do Google Sign-in. Once you are signed in, you should see the screen below:

Step 2: Open the existing/blank document

Open a new blank document or existing document from the list of recent documents. For this example, we will be using an existing document from the list of "Recent documents".

Step 3: Select the text that is to be highlighted

As in the image below, select the text which you want to highlight with some color. If you want to highlight all the text in the entire document, press Ctrl + A on the keyboard. Now press the option as shown in the below image to highlight the text.

Step 4: Select the color from the color palette

Click the brush icon to open color palette for highlighting as shown in the image below. Select the color of your choice to highlight the text using the opened color palette.

We will apply the green color for highlighting the selected text.

You can see that the text we selected is now highlighted using green colour which we had chosen. You can also apply custom colours and provide either "RGB" or "Hex" values to highlight with a different color.

Advanced Tips for Text Customization in Google Docs

Here are some tips to customise Text in Google Docs:

1. Font Style and Size: Change the font style and size to complement your text color.
2. Text Formatting: Use bold, italics, and underline to further emphasize key points.
3. Paragraph Styles: Apply different heading styles to organize your document more effectively.
4. Collaborative Editing: Assign different text colors to different collaborators to easily track changes and contributions.

Conclusion

In this article we have learnt about how to text color in Google Docs. You can apply colors from the default provided color palette or apply your own custom color. Summing up again, Google Docs is a cloud based, free online word processor provided by Google that helps us in creating, editing and saving documents. We typically use different text colors to highlight some important words/phrases/lines in the document or even for better presentation.

Using text colors effectively can make your documents more engaging and easier to read. With these steps and tips, you can take full advantage of Google Docs' text customization features.

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