14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently announced a new highly anticipated update for PowerPoint on iOS devices, with the company explaining it’s all the result of the feedback it received from users.
Beginning with the latest update for PowerPoint, users on iPhone and iPad can highlight pretty much any text on the slides.
“We received many requests for this capability in PowerPoint for iPhones and iPads, and it’s finally here! Now you can highlight any text in a text box, table, or shape on your PowerPoint slides. You can also undo any highlighting that others have added (something not previously possible in iOS),” Ekta Dwivedy, Product Manager on the PowerPoint Mobile team, announced this week.
Currently available only for insiders
Currently available in Microsoft Office version 2.63 and only live for insiders, the new feature can be used on any iPhone or iPad in a pretty straightforward way.
“On your iPhone, simply select the text you want to highlight and tap on the Highlight button in the toolbar above the keyboard (next to the font color option). You can also select the highlight color of your choice! On your iPad, just tap the Highlight option on the ribbon under the Home tab; you can also select a highlight color in the pop-up menu,” the software giant explains.
Worth knowing is that the support for highlighting any text in PowerPoint on iPhone and iPad is a feature that’s rolling out in stages, so not everybody is getting it right now.
“Features are released over some time to ensure things are working smoothly. We highlight features that you may not have because they’re slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. Though this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as an Insider, have had the opportunity to try it,” Microsoft explains.