yellow text marker in Powerpoint

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Hi,

I've been searching for a yellow text marker to highlight parts of my
sheet text in Powerpoint 2002/2003/2007-Beta , but thus far I haven't
found the function. It is available in MS Word, not in Powerpoint.

Is there any expert that can help me out ? Does the function exist or
not?

regards,
Paul
 
Paul,
In edit mode that is true, in slide show mode you can highlight though.
In Slide Show view, right-click the slide that you want text to highlight
on, choose Pointer Options, click highlighter option. Hold down the left
mouse button and drag to highlight the text.
Not what you want completely but possible in PPT2002/2003/2007
Luc Sanders (MVP - PowerPoint)
 
Hi,

I've been searching for a yellow text marker to highlight parts of my
sheet text in Powerpoint 2002/2003/2007-Beta , but thus far I haven't
found the function. It is available in MS Word, not in Powerpoint.

Is there any expert that can help me out ? Does the function exist or
not?
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No, but there's a way to fake it using a VBA macro. It's not perfect, and it's
not as neatly editable as it would be in Word but it's free:

Highlight text in PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00776.htm
 
To save you searching there's no highlighter (though you can get a thin
yellow pen) in 2002 / XP!
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
 
There is a slick program from PCMagazine called WinPointer3. You
can do a HUGE amount of things with it, on any kind of screen. It
freezes the current screen, makes a layer that you can mark up on,
then you can save the marked up image or just hit Esc and erase it
all. You can also capture everything you do with an .AVI save. (I
have no financial interest in it, but did prod the editors into
reviving a '90's version of it!!) A PCMag utilities 'membership' is
$19.95 / year - well worth it for the cost of this proggie alone.
I put the whole thing on a USB flash drive and run it off of that
whenever I am teaching. Very small app that gives you a WHOLE BUNCH
of options.

You can use it on web pages, PowerPoint screens, Excel, etc. I
haven't tried it on Flash animations yet, though. It can create up
to five layers per screen all lettting you draw shapes, highlight,
type text, add arrows, draw plain lines... This will be worth your
while. You run it and then just pop it up with a hot key (I think
the default is Ctrl-W); its icon sits in the tray ("notification
area") in Windows.

--- Bill ---
 
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