The trick to adding highlighting to pages pasted into PowerPoint

When creating PowerPoint slide decks for openings, closings, or witness examinations, you almost certainly will be called upon to create some slides which contain highlighted document text. If you use the highlighter tool that you find on the Draw ribbon, you'll find it difficult to highlight multiple lines of text evenly:

To get the neat rectangular box that the highlighter tool in Trial Director or OnCue will add to text, first paste the document image as a picture on a PowerPoint slide:

. . . with the picture selected, in the 'Picture Format' ribbon that appears on the right select the drop-down menu for Color, and then select 'Set Transparent Color'.

. . . the cursor will change to include a little syringe next to the arrow:

Click on the white part of the page, and the white of the page will then be made transparent in the slideshow.

Create a rectangular box (Insert . . . Shapes), with the fill color set to yellow, and no line set for the edges.

Right-click on the box and set it as the default shape. Then right-click again, and send the yellow box to the back. The text in the document image will appear highlighted.

When adding highlighting it will be easier to make changes if you use the hot key CTRL + SHIFT + [ to send images to the back, and CTRL + SHIFT + ] to send images to the front.