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NCBI Site Preferences

On the top right of your Dashboard is a link to "NCBI Site Preferences."

Common Preference: Highlighting

Turning on this setting will highlight every instance where your search terms show up in a search results.

Example:

Screenshot of My NCBI preferences page. A red arrow points to the highlighting option. In a second column opposite highlighting, the word gold is highlighted in yellow

Screenshot of a PubMed search for community-based dental education. Below the search box in the search results, every instance of the phrase community-based dental education is highlighted in yellow.