
Doing so requires a bit of knowledge about the morph technique and how to crop pictures, but it’s easy. With the addition of the PowerPoint morph transition, you have another choice that might not be as obvious: using morph to highlight important details. Fortunately, PowerPoint supports dozens of ways to do so. Image: monticello/Shutterstockįocusing on a point is the foundation of every PowerPoint presentation. When changing focus from one point to another in PowerPoint, use morph to add a bit of highlighting fun. Alternatively, you can use a different background image or color to highlight the text.How to use the morph feature to highlight important details in PowerPoint

You can also apply this technique while highlighting other kind of content, for example you may try to highlight diagrams and SmartArt Graphics as well.Īside of highlighting text with the approaches described before, you can highlight text in PowerPoint using other special effects like the Glow effect or adding a callout shape at back of the text. Using this procedure you can highlight important sections and content of your PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint for Mac let you draw shapes as in Microsoft Windows so you can follow the same procedure described here.

In Microsoft Office for Mac you can highlight text in a similar way as you can do in the Windows version of Microsoft Office. The final result will look as follows: Highlighting Text in PowerPoint for Mac For instance, try to change the shape and use a Cloud Callout shape in PowerPoint instead of the rectangle. If you want the yellow box to look more realistic then you can use a custom shape (you can draw the custom shape yourself or base it in an existing shape). Making the Highlighted Shape Look More Realistic We have removed the border and left only the yellow background color.įinally, here is how the highlighted text looks in a PowerPoint slide using the rectangle shape.

You can use any fill option and color you want but here we will show you how it looks with a yellow highlighted pen color. Optionally you can also change the border options, in PowerPoint that’s under Line shape properties. Now you are ready to change the shape fill options in order to make the shape look as a yellow highlighted text. Click Send to Back and then click Send to Back option. Make sure to right click over the inserted shape and send it to the background. Choose the rectangle shape and then draw the rectangle over the space you want to highlight.
