Highlight Text in PowerPoint

Is your upcoming exhibition approaching? PowerPoint presentations are excellent allies to organize and visually display your content in front of an audience of any age.

In the midst of the design process, you may have asked yourself, “How do I emphasize idea a or concept b more?” There are many possible answers to that question!

Start with a Template

Begin your presentation from the foundations: download a Slidesgo PowerPoint template that matches the theme of your project. With the right base design, structure your information and emphasize the most important points by learning how to highlight text in PowerPoint.

This simple tutorial will guide you step-by-step on how to use this technique correctly, regardless of the version of Microsoft PowerPoint you have installed on your computer.

How to Highlight Text with PowerPoint’s “Text Highlight Color” Option

Do you have a clear idea of which sentences you want to make more eye-catching? Let’s start working on it! Follow these simple steps to color the text:

• Open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide you want to edit. Then select the text you want to emphasize with your cursor.

• In the top menu bar, select the “text highlight color” option and choose the color that you like or that best matches the shades of your design.

How to Highlight Text in PowerPoint Using a Shape

If the previous editing method does not convince you, you can also use the following technique:

• Once you have your presentation open, go to the top menu and click Insert > Shapes > Rectangle. Draw a rectangle covering the word or phrase you want to highlight.

• With the rectangle selected, go to Home Menu > Shape Outline > No Outline from the drop-down menu.

• Now, customize the shape! Without deselecting the shape, click on the “Shape Fill” option to choose a color.

• After completing these steps, keeping the rectangle selected, right-click and select “Send to Back.” Now you have the text highlighted to your liking!

How to Highlight Text in PowerPoint Using Microsoft Word

If you are using an older version of Microsoft Office (2010, 2013, or 2016), you may have noticed that you don’t have the PowerPoint “highlight color” option. But don’t worry! You can use Microsoft Word and PowerPoint in parallel to highlight:

• In Microsoft Word, type or copy the text you want to emphasize. Ensure the font size and typography match the PowerPoint text box in which you will paste the content later. After ensuring this, keep the text selected.

• Go to the top “Home” menu, where the text customization options appear, and click on the “text highlight color” icon, which is located to the left of the text color change icon. Choose your preferred shade.

• Select the text again and press Ctrl+C to copy the content.

• When you paste the content into your presentation, a pop-up will appear. Make sure that the “use destination theme” option is checked if you do not want to lose the shading, font type, and font size.

Alternative Highlighting Method: Using Glow Text Effect

In this tutorial, we bring you various ways to emphasize your PowerPoint presentation!

The following method to highlight your content is visually different from the others. Let’s explain it step by step:

• Start by selecting the text you want to highlight.

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• Now let’s apply the glow text effect. A tab called “Shape Format” will appear in the top menu. Click on it and perform the following steps: Shape Formatting > Text Effects > Glow.

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A submenu will appear with different colors for the glow effect. If you find one you like, just click on it! If you want a different color, we recommend you go to the “more glow colors” option.

To show you these different methods of highlighting, we have used a template called Virtual Reality Workshop, but you can apply them in any of our customized PowerPoint templates. Happy highlighting!