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I have downloaded a presentation from Google Slides as .pptx and need to edit it.
With no text selected on the slide, on the Home tab, select the arrow next to Text Highlight Color. Choose a color, and then move the mouse pointer over the text area of your slide. The mouse pointer changes to a highlighter..
The slide contains highlighted text which displays correctly but I need to change the highlight colour and cannot find the option to change this in Powerpoint.
- Here select the Keep Source Formatting option (highlighted in red within Figure 3) to retain the text formatting from the source PowerPoint slide. Figure 3: Keep Source Formatting option; Within Word, now select the pasted text. Then access the Home tab of the Ribbon, and click the Text Highlight Color button (highlighted in red within Figure 4).
- Adding the ability to highlight/annotate, similar to one note for mac, would be extremely useful. Pptx are great for presenting but for most students, it would be really nice to draw/highlight pertinent material.
Except for a workaround editing the text highlight colors on Google Slides and re-downloading it is there a way to do this directly in PowerPoint?
I run PowerPoint for Mac from Office365, version 15.12.3
Thanks
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In Microsoft PowerPoint 2013, one way is to copy the text you want to highlight to Microsoft Word, highlight in Microsoft Word and copy it back to Microsoft PowerPoint:
(video author: Craig Hadden)
Highlighting text in PowerPoint for Office 365 and PowerPoint 2019 (official documentation) is more convenient as there is a direct option for it:
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PowerPoint 2013 and earlier do not support text highlighting yet, although apparently it can render it. Not sure what version that Mac one maps too, but I don't think it's supported.
Maybe try creating the highlighting in MS Word and pasting into PPT.
Powerpoint Mac Text Highlight Color
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