First of all, older PowerPoint versions did not support text highlighting. And before we explore getting over this limitation, let’s ask ourselves why do we need to highlight text? If you want to emphasize some important words within your slide, then the highlighting may indeed help. However, unlike Microsoft Word, older PowerPoint version do not have a tool to highlight text, but you can use Word’s highlighting options as a workaround!
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Microsoft Windows
Highlight Text in PowerPoint 365
Highlight Text in PowerPoint 2013
Highlight Text in PowerPoint 2010
Apple Mac
Highlight Text in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 05 09 01
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