Text Advanced: Highlight Text in PowerPoint

Created: Monday, March 14, 2022, posted by Geetesh at 3:13 pm

Updated: Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 12:30 pm

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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

Highlight Text in PowerPoint

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