One of the formatting attributes that you can search for is if the text is highlighted, but you cannot search for shading applied to text. There is only one downside that I can find to using shading to highlight text, and that has to do with Find and Replace. Or, if you prefer, you can bypass macros altogether and simply create a character style that applies the desired shading to selected text. With the macro in place, you can assign it to a shortcut key or to a toolbar button so you can apply your own "highlighting" whenever you want. BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorLightYellow ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic It may change the colour of the font, depending on your slide background, but text colour can be changed in Powerpoint using the Home>Font Colour drop button. The following macro applies pale yellow shading to the selected text. In Office 2010, you can highlight your required text in Word, then paste into a PowerPoint text box using the Keep Source Formatting paste option. If you find a color you like to use a lot, you can create a macro that applies the shading to the selected text. Word then applies the selected color to the selected text, and it looks exactly like what you apply using the Highlight tool. Here you can pick any animation from the gallery (like Teeter or Spin in the example below) and then you will see a quick. Then you need to select the text area and look for Animations -> Animation options. You can use the textbox area or create a new slide and enter some bullet points. (If you'd like to choose from more colors, click the More Colors button.) First, open your PowerPoint presentation and add some text. From the colors displayed, select the one you want to use.
The Shading tab of the Borders and Shading dialog box.