You can only highlight text in PowerPoint directly if you have PowerPoint 2019 or subscribe to Microsoft Office 365.

PowerPoint 2007 has WordArt tools that let you generate text not only in a half-circle, but in all sorts of rings, waves, slants and fades so you can morph your words into whatever shape you envision.

Use the Shapes tool in PowerPoint to blur a part of an image. You can also remove a part from a picture or emphasize part of a picture in PowerPoint.

This post will show you how to blur background image of a picture in PowerPoint. You blur an image, add blur to a photo and more!