PowerPoint 2013 and earlier do not support text highlighting yet, although apparently it can render it. Not sure what version that Mac one maps too, but I don't think it's supported. Maybe try creating the highlighting in MS Word and pasting into PPT. The ability to highlight text in your presentation with colour is not available in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013. However, you can simulate a highlight by applying a background colour to a textbox. To insert a text box, go to the Insert tab and click Text Box (in the Text group).
- PowerPoint 2007 - Click on the Animations tab of the ribbon and select one of the slide show options from the buttons shown on the left side of the ribbon. Or: Or: PowerPoint 2003 - Choose Slide Show > View Show from the main menu.
- Select the pen-like Highlight Text Tool. Point and click your cursor next to the words that you want to highlight. Drag and release the Highlight Text Tool over the text. For Mac users, hold the Option key to highlight a rectangular text area, and for Windows users, hold the Ctrl key as you drag the tool over the area.
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Is it possible to embed programming source code to Powerpoint slide, and keep code highlighting/coloring?
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After pasting, a small 'Paste Options' icon appears below the pasted text.
Click this icon and choose 'Keep Source Formatting' :
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Use Notepad++ with add-on NppExport.
- Select the source code
- Use Copy RTF to clipboard of NppExport
- Paste into empty PPT slide (do not select any textfiled)
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If the source code does not need to be copied and pasted out of the presentation, a quick and dirty solution could be to simply take screenshots of the source code.
Emory BellEmory Bell
- Click on Insert → Object → OpenDocument Text
- Paste on opened panel
- Click outside.
Note: Copying from Notepad++ will preserve colors and styling.
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samad montazerisamad montazeri
Online syntax highlighter like TextMate seems good as well, http://markup.su/highlighter/
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But after pasting into PowerPoint presentation new lines and line spacing is lost, so we can take a screen shot of the preview and paste it in our PowerPoint presentation
Mohammed Abdul MateenMohammed Abdul Mateen
Pasting from Eclipse should retain formatting if the app supports it. I know Word does... not sure about PPT.
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I've had no success pasting into Powerpoint 2010 on Windows.
However, pasting from Eclipse into Word 2010 works.
You can then save this formatted text as an RTF file, then embed the RTF into a Powerpoint 2010 slide using Insert Object (and optionally select 'link' so you can edit and update the text in Word).
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Using Notepad++ and Npp Export works great, but your text will end up with a white background.
To remove it, paste first the text in word with the 'preserve source formatting' option. Then, select the text and in Home > Font, remove the background with the Text Highlight Color option.
Then, copy again the text from word, and paste it in powerpoint with the 'preserve source formatting' option.
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JohnJohn
Copy the code and first paste that code into Microsoft word
Then do the formatting if necessary and then copy from word and paste back to powerpoint by right clicking and choosing use destination theme
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