Thanks, Sue.
That's Word, this is PowerPoint. ;-)
That feature isn't available in PPT.
The usual workaround is to draw a rectangle that surrounds the text you want to
highlight, send it behind the text. If the text isn't part of a placeholder,
you might want to group it with the rectangle so the two stay together.
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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To access the highlighter tool, you have to go to the SlideShow View and
then scroll to the slide that has the text you want to highlight. Then you
will have to either right click and then click on Pointer
Options--->Highlighter or go to the bottom left screen and click on the Pen
icon and then click on highlighter (the pen icon does not show until move
onto the next slide).
The highlighter tool will then act as a physical highlighter and you can now
highlight text. To save your highlights, you will then have to "End Show" or
scroll until you exit your powerpoint presentation and then "Keep" your ink
annotations.
After that, you can choose to "Delete" your highlights the same you would
delete a graphic as each stroke is saved as a graphic in your presentation.
I hope that I helped someone out with this tip.
The Help entry says there used to be an *on-screen* highlight tool in PPT
2003. This was a highlight that could be used during a presentation -- like
drawing on the screen -- to point out something on the slide. It's not
something that could be used in Normal (editing) view, and it was nothing
like the highlight tool that Word has.
In my opinion, the preposition thing isn't something about which to get bent
out of shape. <g>
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"Rich Craig" <Rich Cr...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This DOES NOT work in PP2007 (12.0.6307.5000; it highlights the entire
> teat
> area.
> Bring back the "one click" hylight tool!!!!!!!!
>
> By the way, I suggest an English grammar class for you help text writers!
> "Never end a sentence in a preposition!
In PowerPoint? Which tool was that?
> By the way, I suggest an English grammar class for you help text writers!
We're not help text writers. We're volunteers, not MS employees.
> "Never end a sentence in a preposition!
Try googling that very phrase. I think you'll find a concensus that applying
Latin grammar to the English language is foolishess up with which we should not
put.
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Brian.
In article <CC742458-84AF-4506...@microsoft.com>,
Philma...@discussions.microsoft.com (Philmartin57) wrote:
> *From:* Philmartin57 <Philma...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> *Date:* Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:40:01 -0700
"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:
> Actually, you can highlight text in PPT 2007. The way to do it is to add animation effects of changing the font color and you can even make it bold at the same time. This is as close as it gets to highlighting text. The problem I'm having is that after my text is animated a couple letters at the end are cut off. Does this happen to anyone else? And do you know how to fix it?
Jen
Regards,
Shyam Pillai
Handout Wizard: http://skp.mvps.org/how
"Dumbfounded" <Dumbf...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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That's a cool trick!
You can also use the format painter to apply the highlight (and font
format) to other text once you have it in PPT, or to remove it by
selecting text without the highlight.
> That's a cool trick!
>
> You can also use the format painter to apply the highlight (and font
> format) to other text once you have it in PPT, or to remove it by
> selecting text without the highlight.
Oh, even better!
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What's new in PPT 2010? http://www.echosvoice.com/2010.htm
But as Shyam says not easy (possible?) to unhighlight except by using the
format painter.
John
"Echo S" <msnews...@echosvoiceUGHSPAM.com> wrote in message
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It was thru the OM that I found that you could keep the pasted highlight
format in the first place.
Regards,
Shyam Pillai
Image Importer Wizard: http://skp.mvps.org/iiw.htm
"John Wilson" <jo...@pptalchemy.co.uk> wrote in message
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Regards,
Shyam Pillai
Image Importer Wizard: http://skp.mvps.org/iiw.htm
"Mark" <co...@concentric.net> wrote in message
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"Rich Craig" wrote:
> This DOES NOT work in PP2007 (12.0.6307.5000; it highlights the entire teat
> area.
> Bring back the "one click" hylight tool!!!!!!!!
>
> By the way, I suggest an English grammar class for you help text writers!
> "Never end a sentence in a preposition!
>
There. <g>