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The ability to highlight text in your presentation with color is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Earlier versions of PowerPoint featured an on-screen highlight marker, but never featured a text highlight option similar to the one available in Microsoft Word.

Instead, you can add a text box (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.) with color to surround text that you want to call out.

 Note   The following method of adding a highlight effect to your text affects all of the text in the text box.

1. Click the slide that you want highlighted text to appear on.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box, and then on the slide, drag to draw the text box that you want.
3. In the text box, type the text that you want to highlight.
4. Drag one of the text box sizing handles (sizing handle: One of the small circles or squares that appears at the corners and sides of a selected object. You drag these handles to change the size of the object.) to fit the actual size of the text.
5. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Shape Fill, and then click the fill color that you want to highlight the text with.

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