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Given: Linux Mint 20.2, Emacs 27.2

Q: E.g. "Hello, how are you?" Suppose whole sentence has foreground color = white. And I want to change color (e.g to red) of only word "Hello". A: There is a general way of highlighting a word or regular expression using any face you want.
Try M-x highlight-regexp (bound to M-s h r). It prompts you for the text to highlight and then it gives you the option to pick any face you want to use. To get a list of all faces, use M-x list-faces-display. Once you have highlighted all occurrences of a word, you can remove the highlights with M-x unhighlight-regexp (bound to M-s h u).

 Here result:

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Q: Yes, but M-x highlight-regexp is highlighting word "Hello" in the whole text. E.g. if word "Hello" occur 3 times in the whole buffer it will be highlighting. But I need to highlighting only one word "Hello" exact on the sentence "Hello, how are you?" after Here result:. Is it possible on org mode?

P.S. The ideal scenario is to select some region and highlighting only it

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    This suggesting the highlight library might be useful
    – GNUmon
    Sep 9, 2021 at 15:02
  • See Text properties.
    – NickD
    Sep 9, 2021 at 15:30
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    Does this answer your question? Highlight region
    – Drew
    Sep 9, 2021 at 15:57
  • Would narrowing (even if not ideal) work for your goals maybe ? And as a fun workaround (sorry for the noise..) we might use query-replace: a). Mark region, b). M-% to call query-replace, c) Choose/write "Query replacing Hello with Hello" <RET>, d) See Hello highlighted in the region (with the replacement artifacts of course :)
    – Y. E.
    Sep 9, 2021 at 17:02

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