# Highlight Text and Comment On It

Improvement · 2026-08-12

## Details

Open a file in Drive, drag across the sentence you want changed, and press Comment. Your note lands in the comment section with the passage quoted above it, so you never have to describe which paragraph you meant.

The highlight stays on the text. Reopen the file next week and you can see at a glance which parts already have feedback, click a highlight to jump to its comment, or click a comment to jump back to the text. Your employee reads the quoted passage along with your note, so 'make this shorter' now has something to point at. Works on documents, notes, code, spreadsheets and Word files.

## What changed

- Select text in a file and comment on that exact passage
- Highlights stay on the text, so you can see what already has feedback
- Click a highlight to find its comment, or a comment to find its text
- Your employee sees the quoted passage, not just the note