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The first is as you are creating your PowerPoint presentation, so that when you run the presentation the text is already highlighted.

The second is as you are delivering your presentation to the audience, perhaps as part of some ad hoc interaction with your viewers.

However, you can simulate a highlight by applying a background colour to a textbox.

This is a text box, and what you type next will appear inside it.

Once you have typed your text, and with the text box still selected, go to the Format tab (within Drawing Tools) and then click Shape Fill.

If you want to highlight some text while you are delivering a presentation to an audience you can use one of the controls available in Presenter View.

Click on the pen and laser pointer tools control and select Highlighter.

The highlighting actually becomes an element separate from the text and can be moved around, edited, etc.

How To Highlight In Powerpoint For Mac