Working with Slides: Pen and Highlighter Tools in PowerPoint

Created: Thursday, December 7, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 12:13 pm

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While presenting and interacting with your audience, annotation on a slide can play an important role, and PowerPoint provides you with useful Pen and Highlighter tools that can change your static slide into a whiteboard upon which you can doodle and write!

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

Pen and Highlighter Tools in Slide Show View in PowerPoint 2016

Pen and Highlighter Tools in Slide Show View in PowerPoint 2013

Pen and Highlighter Tools in Slide Show View in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Pen and Highlighter Tools in Slide Show View in PowerPoint 2016

Pen and Highlighter Tools in Slide Show View in PowerPoint 2011

Pen and Highlighter Tools in PowerPoint

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