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How to Change the Highlight Color in PowerPoint

Updated on:
June 5, 2026
By:
Madhav Bhandari
Use this interactive demo to learn how to change the highlight color in your PowerPoint presentations.

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It is very easy to change the highlight color in PowerPoint. Here’s a short tutorial on how to do it:

  1. Inside the slide canvas of your PowerPoint presentation, find and select the highlighted text you want to edit.
  2. Under the Home tab, find the 'Highlight' option and then click the drop-down arrow next to it.
  3. Pick the new color you want to use.
  4. Finally, the highlight color of the selected text in your PowerPoint presentation will be changed accordingly.

📌 Why this matters

Changing highlight colors lets you create visual hierarchies and organize information by importance or category within your slides. You might use yellow for key points, green for completed items, or red for urgent tasks. Beyond basic emphasis, strategic color coding helps your audience follow complex presentations more easily and makes handouts more useful as reference materials. Different highlight colors also ensure your slides remain accessible and readable when projected on various screens or printed in different formats.

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