This article about how to highlight words in a PowerPoint slide is wonderful. So simple to understand and apply. And of course how to undo the highlight on words. Thanks to those who put this video together.
Brilliant workaround that gives me a quick fix in a pinch. Very concise and detailed. Thank you so much for taking the time to figure this out and share!
Dude, you saved me! This works on Masterslides aswell. For some reason, just copying the necessary text into the placeholder does not work. If you do it with the brush though, no problem. The lack of tuning options, like the color of highlights or weight of underline, is screwing me over, when i am assigned the ungrateful task to translate designs, done in proper design-software, to PPT. I already have a rule of thumb that you always have to calculate 6x the amount of time of what you deem necessary. Just because of MS
TNA Crend You're welcome. For more tips, please see my blog. Latest post (bitly.com/1HfivsO) shows how to use a neat PPT feature to drastically shorten your slideshow, without deleting slides!
+Sergio Bartolomé You're very welcome Sergio! Check out my blog for many more tips on PowerPoint and public speaking. For instance, you might like my tip about making objects emerge from within a photo on a slide, like by magic! bitly.com/1NTS8cJ
PAULINA RODRIGUEZ ABARCA Thanks for your comment, Paulina! You might also like this other video that shows tips for drawing shapes more easily in PowerPoint: bitly.com/1IpzVRE
Interestingly the powerpoint help flat out says that highlighting is not supported in ppt, and that you should use "glow" instead. I found out recently by accident that highlighting is supported when I copied some text from Outlook (works the same as Word in your example). I searched high and low for a button but there isn't one!!
I know you can use a macro to insert a yellow rectangle behind selected text. Here's the macro code that you can copy: bit.ly/2sRcvkf Perhaps you could find something similar through Google. If you find anything suitable, I'd be delighted if you could kindly post a link to it here. Thanks!
Thanks. I tend to edit and add quite a bit so I don't think I want rectangles. I will let you know if I find a macro to do whatever word is doing. It should be possible, I guess, if Word can do it.
Koryo Malaysia Hi. At 1:10, click the arrow on the Text Highlight Colour button and choose one of the colours. (If you have a more modern version of PPT, this button is now available in PPT, meaning you wouldn’t need this workaround video any more.)
Ok. That just made sense but I don't know why or how a corporation could overthink this problem by concocting a reason to remove a tool used so often that you would delete it? THOUGHTS ANYONE? The entire world is waiting. I just downloaded the latest version 2016 PPT and they must not have emailed the old department in charge or the yellow sticky fell on the floor reminding them to address the voluminous complaints. This is a one day fix with all those programmers! Look out Microsoft PowerPoint, you're toast if a competitor comes along...earth will bail out of your program like rats off a sinking ship. All for something as simple as a highlighter....
I just tried again in Word/PPT 2007 and confirmed that it does work there too. However, I discovered that if the text has a 3D Contour colour, the highlight only appears whenever you edit the text, and it (temporarily) disappears again every time you click out of the text box! (Very frustrating.) Perhaps right-click the text in PPT, choose Format Text Effects, click 3D Format, and check that in the Contour area the Size says 0pt. The other thing to check is whether the Paste Options button appears. It needs to be switched on in the Options dialog box. To check, in PPT 2007 press Alt T O, click Advanced, and look in the "Cut, copy, and paste" section. (The setting is shared between Office apps, so if you turn it on or off in one app, it changes to match in the others too. So you could check in Word instead, but Word has tons of other options that make it harder to find the one you want.)
Craig Hadden - Remote Possibilities I figured it out. The document my client gave me was RTF format and it had highlighting (looked like it was highlighting), but because it was done on a mac, it wasn't formatted for Word. I just had to re-highlight the text and then copy it over. It worked for both 2007 and 2010. Thanks! Love the tip because it saved me a job and a lot of work. The client had it highlighted for a teleprompter.
Idiots at microsnot messed things up, even in the latest office. There is lots of issues with format incompatibilities between their tools within their office. Shame.
I just realized this and I am about to send hate mail to microsoft. This is literally one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Like it's so stupid is pathetic and shameful.
Great simple clear helpful video. I agree with others who have wondered why PowerPoint has no easy way to highlight.
+Army Mobility Officer Thanks for your kind feedback!
This article about how to highlight words in a PowerPoint slide is wonderful. So simple to understand and apply.
And of course how to undo the highlight on words.
Thanks to those who put this video together.
Thanks, Paul!
WHY the hell didn't they just implement highlighting in PowerPoint??
Very good question! That would have made our lives easier, for sure.
asdf Because they'll get your money either way, so there's no motivation for them to put the effort in.
Because the programmer who created it at Microsoft have left, others don't know how to do it :)
@@philipfong4800 thats bs, ofc they know how to do that, or else how do they update? its a simple thing
Thanks, always wondered what the heck that paint brush button was used for. Great time saver.
Brilliant workaround that gives me a quick fix in a pinch. Very concise and detailed. Thank you so much for taking the time to figure this out and share!
Thanks for your kind comment, Alexander.
I think it is really sad that I have to resort to watching a video on how to highlight font in Powerpoint, kudos to Microsoft!
THANKS A LOT
Dude, you saved me! This works on Masterslides aswell. For some reason, just copying the necessary text into the placeholder does not work. If you do it with the brush though, no problem. The lack of tuning options, like the color of highlights or weight of underline, is screwing me over, when i am assigned the ungrateful task to translate designs, done in proper design-software, to PPT. I already have a rule of thumb that you always have to calculate 6x the amount of time of what you deem necessary. Just because of MS
Very good explanation to a problem that still exists in Power Point 2013.
+George Shields Thanks for your comment George!
Paul Wessel, I'm glad you found the tips helpful.
Thanks for your comment. (UA-cam's not letting me reply to it directly!)
0:25 yes same
Excellent video! You saved the day! Thank you!
Ingenious. Works very well. Thank you for making this video.
Great tips, thanks.
TNA Crend You're welcome. For more tips, please see my blog. Latest post (bitly.com/1HfivsO) shows how to use a neat PPT feature to drastically shorten your slideshow, without deleting slides!
Thanks for this great tip (all 3 actually)! Absence of highlighting in PowerPoint is, or was as I should say, annoying since ages.
You're very welcome! Thanks for your support.
Thanks for the tips!
+Sergio Bartolomé You're very welcome Sergio! Check out my blog for many more tips on PowerPoint and public speaking. For instance, you might like my tip about making objects emerge from within a photo on a slide, like by magic! bitly.com/1NTS8cJ
I learned a lot today
Thanks a lot for these great tips :)
PAULINA RODRIGUEZ ABARCA Thanks for your comment, Paulina! You might also like this other video that shows tips for drawing shapes more easily in PowerPoint: bitly.com/1IpzVRE
thank you sooo much!! this is soooooo helpful!!! you're god sent! i've been using textbox.............
Michelle Lilo I'm glad it's helped you, Michelle, and thanks for letting me know.
Interestingly the powerpoint help flat out says that highlighting is not supported in ppt, and that you should use "glow" instead. I found out recently by accident that highlighting is supported when I copied some text from Outlook (works the same as Word in your example). I searched high and low for a button but there isn't one!!
+castirondude Thanks for the info, dude!
@swcoast Thanks for your support. (P.S. For some reason, there's no Reply button on some comments, such as yours.)
Wowww magic! Thanks a bunch! ^_^
THANKYOU!!!
Thank you! :)
This is great. Thank you.
Cool ta. What if the text to be hilited is in an image?
In that case, you could put a semitransparent yellow shape over the relevant part of the image.
Thank you!!
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Thank you so much
Is there anyway of using a macro?
I know you can use a macro to insert a yellow rectangle behind selected text. Here's the macro code that you can copy: bit.ly/2sRcvkf
Perhaps you could find something similar through Google. If you find anything suitable, I'd be delighted if you could kindly post a link to it here. Thanks!
Thanks. I tend to edit and add quite a bit so I don't think I want rectangles. I will let you know if I find a macro to do whatever word is doing. It should be possible, I guess, if Word can do it.
How to choose the highlight color? Please help me.
Koryo Malaysia Hi. At 1:10, click the arrow on the Text Highlight Colour button and choose one of the colours. (If you have a more modern version of PPT, this button is now available in PPT, meaning you wouldn’t need this workaround video any more.)
Unbeliveable!! Like a cheap amature "garage made" software v0.8beta. Uppps, I forgot the highlighting function, sorry guys. WTF??
Brilliant
+psr Thanks for your support!
how do u do this on mac
Not sure - I’ve never used PowerPoint on a Mac. But you might want to Google these PPT MVPs/experts who use Macs:
Geetesh Bajaj
Nolan Haims
Doesn't work for Powerpoint MAC 2011.....
I'm sorry it doesn't seem to work on the Mac. I've never used a Mac, so suggest asking in an online forum that focuses on PPT.
this is so annoying that they didn't give the highlighting option in PP
Ok. That just made sense but I don't know why or how a corporation could overthink this problem by concocting a reason to remove a tool used so often that you would delete it? THOUGHTS ANYONE? The entire world is waiting. I just downloaded the latest version 2016 PPT and they must not have emailed the old department in charge or the yellow sticky fell on the floor reminding them to address the voluminous complaints. This is a one day fix with all those programmers! Look out Microsoft PowerPoint, you're toast if a competitor comes along...earth will bail out of your program like rats off a sinking ship. All for something as simple as a highlighter....
If you subscribe to Office 365, I believe a text highlighter has been added. You can find more info in this short discussion: bit.ly/2sePfjy
It didn't work on Word/PPT 2007. I'll try 2010 on another computer.
I just tried again in Word/PPT 2007 and confirmed that it does work there too. However, I discovered that if the text has a 3D Contour colour, the highlight only appears whenever you edit the text, and it (temporarily) disappears again every time you click out of the text box! (Very frustrating.) Perhaps right-click the text in PPT, choose Format Text Effects, click 3D Format, and check that in the Contour area the Size says 0pt.
The other thing to check is whether the Paste Options button appears. It needs to be switched on in the Options dialog box. To check, in PPT 2007 press Alt T O, click Advanced, and look in the "Cut, copy, and paste" section. (The setting is shared between Office apps, so if you turn it on or off in one app, it changes to match in the others too. So you could check in Word instead, but Word has tons of other options that make it harder to find the one you want.)
Craig Hadden - Remote Possibilities I figured it out. The document my client gave me was RTF format and it had highlighting (looked like it was highlighting), but because it was done on a mac, it wasn't formatted for Word. I just had to re-highlight the text and then copy it over. It worked for both 2007 and 2010. Thanks! Love the tip because it saved me a job and a lot of work. The client had it highlighted for a teleprompter.
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Thanks for letting us know the outcome -- very handy for people on Macs.
I'm glad the tip helped, and I really appreciate your comments.
This is the kind of asinine two-step that Microsoft thinks is perfectly acceptable.
it waste my Internet
Idiots at microsnot messed things up, even in the latest office.
There is lots of issues with format incompatibilities between their tools within their office. Shame.
I just realized this and I am about to send hate mail to microsoft. This is literally one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Like it's so stupid is pathetic and shameful.