To remove highlighted text in Pages, click the highlighted text section > select Delete from the pop-up box that appears. Removing a highlight doesn't remove any text; it removes only the highlight.

How Do You Highlight Text in Pages on a Mac? Pages allows you to highlight text so a specific section stands out from the rest of the document.

Clicking and dragging is a perfectly good way to select text, but there are others, possibly better, ways to go about it.