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How to Highlight in PowerPoint

8/24/2016

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It seems like it would be easy to highlight in PowerPoint, but it isn't.  There isn't the standard highlighter tool that is in Microsoft Word.
PictureDuplicating slides in PowerPoint 2016
The easiest way to do this is:

1.  Create your slide.
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2. Copy the PowerPoint  slide by right-clicking on the navigation pane and choosing "duplicate".)

The new, copied slide will immediately appear under the slide you just right-clicked.

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PictureInsert a rectangle in PowerPoint 2016
3.  Go to the Insert table and choose shapes. 

When you press the dropdown menu, you will see the rectangle shape.  You are going to draw this over the words you want to highlight in the duplicated slide.

After you draw the rectangle over the word, the contextual toolbar for drawing will appear.  We will use this to make the highlighting translucent.

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4. Use the Shape Fill tool under the Drawing Tools Contextual Toolbar in PowerPoint
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5. Under Shape Fill tools, choose More Fill Colors, and set the transparency to 60%.
4. In the Drawing Tools contextual toolbar, choose Shape Fill and pick the color for your highlighting.  At first it will cover the word, but don't worry.  We will change that in a moment.

​5.  Choose More Fill Colors.  At the bottom of the Colors dialogue box, there is a slider to choose the Transparency option to 60% (or type in the box).  This may need to be adjusted depending on your screen and how dark your classroom is; 90% is the lightest I think people can see.  You won't see the changes until you press OK.
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The transparent shading creates the look of highlighting in PowerPoint.
Once you left-click on OK, you will see the word highlighted on your screen, and when you move from the previous slide to the highlighted slide, it will have the effect of "highlighting" on the screen.
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