A text highlighter tool is not available in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011. However, you can simulate highlighting by inserting a colored box. Or use a comment to call out information on a slide.
Do any of the following:
 | Insert a colored text box |
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Click the slide that you want the highlighted text to appear on.
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On the Home tab, under Insert, click Text, and then click Text Box.
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On the slide, drag to draw the text box.
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In the text box, type or paste the text that you want to appear as highlighted.
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Drag the text box's
sizing handlesA square or round handle that appears at each corner and along the sides of the rectangle that surrounds a selected object. You drag a sizing handle to resize an object.
to fit the actual size of the text.
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On the Home tab, under Format, click the arrow next to Fill 
, and then click the fill color that you want to highlight the text with.
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Drag the colored text section to the location that you want on your slide.
 | Tip To more precisely position the colored text box, click the text box when the pointer is a four-headed arrow  , and then use the keyboard arrow keys. |
| Add a comment |
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In the navigation pane, click the slide that you want to add a comment to.
| How to select slides in the navigation pane
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Do one of the following:
To | Do this |
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Add a comment about text or an
objectA single element of your document. An object can be a text box, an imported graphic, a shape, a picture, and so on.
on the slide | Click the text or object |
Add a comment about the slide | Click anywhere on the slide |
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On the Review tab, under Comments, click New.
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Type your comment, and then click outside the comment box.
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