diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 79e013392..1e5809b17 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -345,9 +345,9 @@ checksum = "cdb031dd78e28731d87d56cc8ffef4a8f36ca26c38fe2de700543e627f8a464a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "backtrace"
-version = "0.3.56"
+version = "0.3.57"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9d117600f438b1707d4e4ae15d3595657288f8235a0eb593e80ecc98ab34e1bc"
+checksum = "78ed203b9ba68b242c62b3fb7480f589dd49829be1edb3fe8fc8b4ffda2dcb8d"
 dependencies = [
  "addr2line",
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
@@ -1661,6 +1661,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "milli",
  "mime",
  "mockall",
+ "obkv",
  "once_cell",
  "oxidized-json-checker",
  "parking_lot",
@@ -2837,9 +2838,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
-version = "0.4.2"
+version = "0.4.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c111b5bd5695e56cffe5129854aa230b39c93a305372fdbb2668ca2394eea9f8"
+checksum = "f173ac3d1a7e3b28003f40de0b5ce7fe2710f9b9dc3fc38664cebee46b3b6527"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "slice-group-by"
diff --git a/meilisearch-http/Cargo.toml b/meilisearch-http/Cargo.toml
index 5ba3acd2b..e7a55d28e 100644
--- a/meilisearch-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/meilisearch-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 uuid = "0.8.2"
 oxidized-json-checker = "0.3.2"
 walkdir = "2.3.2"
+obkv = "0.1.1"
 
 [dependencies.sentry]
 default-features = false
diff --git a/meilisearch-http/src/index/mod.rs b/meilisearch-http/src/index/mod.rs
index ab5fc6fb5..57a939aaa 100644
--- a/meilisearch-http/src/index/mod.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-http/src/index/mod.rs
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ impl Index {
 
         let fields_ids_map = self.fields_ids_map(&txn)?;
         let fields_to_display =
-            self.fields_to_display(&txn, attributes_to_retrieve, &fields_ids_map)?;
+            self.fields_to_display(&txn, &attributes_to_retrieve, &fields_ids_map)?;
 
         let iter = self.documents.range(&txn, &(..))?.skip(offset).take(limit);
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ impl Index {
         let fields_ids_map = self.fields_ids_map(&txn)?;
 
         let fields_to_display =
-            self.fields_to_display(&txn, attributes_to_retrieve, &fields_ids_map)?;
+            self.fields_to_display(&txn, &attributes_to_retrieve, &fields_ids_map)?;
 
         let internal_id = self
             .external_documents_ids(&txn)?
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ impl Index {
     fn fields_to_display<S: AsRef<str>>(
         &self,
         txn: &heed::RoTxn,
-        attributes_to_retrieve: Option<Vec<S>>,
+        attributes_to_retrieve: &Option<Vec<S>>,
         fields_ids_map: &milli::FieldsIdsMap,
     ) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<u8>> {
         let mut displayed_fields_ids = match self.displayed_fields_ids(&txn)? {
diff --git a/meilisearch-http/src/index/search.rs b/meilisearch-http/src/index/search.rs
index 28eb7af98..9e0c5a5cc 100644
--- a/meilisearch-http/src/index/search.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-http/src/index/search.rs
@@ -1,17 +1,19 @@
+use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashSet};
-use std::mem;
 use std::time::Instant;
 
 use anyhow::bail;
 use either::Either;
 use heed::RoTxn;
 use meilisearch_tokenizer::{Analyzer, AnalyzerConfig};
-use milli::{facet::FacetValue, FacetCondition, MatchingWords};
+use milli::{facet::FacetValue, FacetCondition, FieldId, FieldsIdsMap, MatchingWords};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use serde_json::{Map, Value};
 
 use super::Index;
 
+pub type Document = Map<String, Value>;
+
 pub const DEFAULT_SEARCH_LIMIT: usize = 20;
 
 const fn default_search_limit() -> usize {
@@ -25,8 +27,8 @@ pub struct SearchQuery {
     pub offset: Option<usize>,
     #[serde(default = "default_search_limit")]
     pub limit: usize,
-    pub attributes_to_retrieve: Option<Vec<String>>,
-    pub attributes_to_crop: Option<Vec<String>>,
+    pub attributes_to_retrieve: Option<HashSet<String>>,
+    pub attributes_to_crop: Option<HashSet<String>>,
     pub crop_length: Option<usize>,
     pub attributes_to_highlight: Option<HashSet<String>>,
     pub filters: Option<String>,
@@ -38,9 +40,9 @@ pub struct SearchQuery {
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize)]
 pub struct SearchHit {
     #[serde(flatten)]
-    pub document: Map<String, Value>,
+    pub document: Document,
     #[serde(rename = "_formatted", skip_serializing_if = "Map::is_empty")]
-    pub formatted: Map<String, Value>,
+    pub formatted: Document,
 }
 
 #[derive(Serialize)]
@@ -86,21 +88,79 @@ impl Index {
         let mut documents = Vec::new();
         let fields_ids_map = self.fields_ids_map(&rtxn).unwrap();
 
-        let fields_to_display =
-            self.fields_to_display(&rtxn, query.attributes_to_retrieve, &fields_ids_map)?;
+        let fids = |attrs: &HashSet<String>| {
+            attrs
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|name| fields_ids_map.id(name))
+                .collect()
+        };
+
+        let displayed_ids: HashSet<FieldId> = fields_ids_map.iter().map(|(id, _)| id).collect();
+
+        let to_retrieve_ids = query
+            .attributes_to_retrieve
+            .as_ref()
+            .map(fids)
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| displayed_ids.clone());
+
+        let to_highlight_ids = query
+            .attributes_to_highlight
+            .as_ref()
+            .map(fids)
+            .unwrap_or_default();
+
+        let to_crop_ids = query
+            .attributes_to_crop
+            .as_ref()
+            .map(fids)
+            .unwrap_or_default();
+
+        // The attributes to retrieve are:
+        // - the ones explicitly marked as to retrieve that are also in the displayed attributes
+        let all_attributes: Vec<_> = to_retrieve_ids
+            .intersection(&displayed_ids)
+            .cloned()
+            .collect();
+
+        // The formatted attributes are:
+        // - The one in either highlighted attributes or cropped attributes if there are attributes
+        // to retrieve
+        // - All the attributes to retrieve if there are either highlighted or cropped attributes
+        // the request specified that all attributes are to retrieve (i.e attributes to retrieve is
+        // empty in the query)
+        let all_formatted = if query.attributes_to_retrieve.is_none() {
+            if query.attributes_to_highlight.is_some() || query.attributes_to_crop.is_some() {
+                Cow::Borrowed(&all_attributes)
+            } else {
+                Cow::Owned(Vec::new())
+            }
+        } else {
+            let attrs = (&to_crop_ids | &to_highlight_ids)
+                .intersection(&displayed_ids)
+                .cloned()
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+            Cow::Owned(attrs)
+        };
 
         let stop_words = fst::Set::default();
-        let highlighter = Highlighter::new(&stop_words);
+        let highlighter = Highlighter::new(
+            &stop_words,
+            (String::from("<mark>"), String::from("</mark>")),
+        );
 
         for (_id, obkv) in self.documents(&rtxn, documents_ids)? {
-            let mut object =
-                milli::obkv_to_json(&fields_to_display, &fields_ids_map, obkv).unwrap();
-            if let Some(ref attributes_to_highlight) = query.attributes_to_highlight {
-                highlighter.highlight_record(&mut object, &matching_words, attributes_to_highlight);
-            }
+            let document = milli::obkv_to_json(&all_attributes, &fields_ids_map, obkv.clone())?;
+            let formatted = compute_formatted(
+                &fields_ids_map,
+                obkv,
+                &highlighter,
+                &matching_words,
+                all_formatted.as_ref().as_slice(),
+                &to_highlight_ids,
+            )?;
             let hit = SearchHit {
-                document: object,
-                formatted: Map::new(),
+                document,
+                formatted,
             };
             documents.push(hit);
         }
@@ -132,6 +192,38 @@ impl Index {
     }
 }
 
+fn compute_formatted<A: AsRef<[u8]>>(
+    field_ids_map: &FieldsIdsMap,
+    obkv: obkv::KvReader,
+    highlighter: &Highlighter<A>,
+    matching_words: &MatchingWords,
+    all_formatted: &[FieldId],
+    to_highlight_ids: &HashSet<FieldId>,
+) -> anyhow::Result<Document> {
+    let mut document = Document::new();
+
+    for field in all_formatted {
+        if let Some(value) = obkv.get(*field) {
+            let mut value: Value = serde_json::from_slice(value)?;
+
+            if to_highlight_ids.contains(field) {
+                value = highlighter.highlight_value(value, matching_words);
+            }
+
+            // This unwrap must be safe since we got the ids from the fields_ids_map just
+            // before.
+            let key = field_ids_map
+                .name(*field)
+                .expect("Missing field name")
+                .to_string();
+
+            document.insert(key, value);
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(document)
+}
+
 fn parse_facets_array(
     txn: &RoTxn,
     index: &Index,
@@ -163,16 +255,17 @@ fn parse_facets_array(
 
 pub struct Highlighter<'a, A> {
     analyzer: Analyzer<'a, A>,
+    marks: (String, String),
 }
 
 impl<'a, A: AsRef<[u8]>> Highlighter<'a, A> {
-    pub fn new(stop_words: &'a fst::Set<A>) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(stop_words: &'a fst::Set<A>, marks: (String, String)) -> Self {
         let mut config = AnalyzerConfig::default();
         config.stop_words(stop_words);
 
         let analyzer = Analyzer::new(config);
 
-        Self { analyzer }
+        Self { analyzer, marks }
     }
 
     pub fn highlight_value(&self, value: Value, words_to_highlight: &MatchingWords) -> Value {
@@ -187,11 +280,11 @@ impl<'a, A: AsRef<[u8]>> Highlighter<'a, A> {
                     if token.is_word() {
                         let to_highlight = words_to_highlight.matches(token.text());
                         if to_highlight {
-                            string.push_str("<mark>")
+                            string.push_str(&self.marks.0)
                         }
                         string.push_str(word);
                         if to_highlight {
-                            string.push_str("</mark>")
+                            string.push_str(&self.marks.1)
                         }
                     } else {
                         string.push_str(word);
@@ -213,21 +306,6 @@ impl<'a, A: AsRef<[u8]>> Highlighter<'a, A> {
             ),
         }
     }
-
-    pub fn highlight_record(
-        &self,
-        object: &mut Map<String, Value>,
-        words_to_highlight: &MatchingWords,
-        attributes_to_highlight: &HashSet<String>,
-    ) {
-        // TODO do we need to create a string for element that are not and needs to be highlight?
-        for (key, value) in object.iter_mut() {
-            if attributes_to_highlight.contains(key) {
-                let old_value = mem::take(value);
-                *value = self.highlight_value(old_value, words_to_highlight);
-            }
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 fn parse_facets(
diff --git a/meilisearch-http/src/routes/search.rs b/meilisearch-http/src/routes/search.rs
index ae2caeb30..86beb2750 100644
--- a/meilisearch-http/src/routes/search.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-http/src/routes/search.rs
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ impl TryFrom<SearchQueryGet> for SearchQuery {
     fn try_from(other: SearchQueryGet) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
         let attributes_to_retrieve = other
             .attributes_to_retrieve
-            .map(|attrs| attrs.split(',').map(String::from).collect::<Vec<_>>());
+            .map(|attrs| attrs.split(',').map(String::from).collect::<HashSet<_>>());
 
         let attributes_to_crop = other
             .attributes_to_crop
-            .map(|attrs| attrs.split(',').map(String::from).collect::<Vec<_>>());
+            .map(|attrs| attrs.split(',').map(String::from).collect::<HashSet<_>>());
 
         let attributes_to_highlight = other
             .attributes_to_highlight