Highlight Text in PowerPoint using Python

This topic entails the process to highlight text in PowerPoint using Python. It encompasses the details to set up the IDE, a list of programming steps, and an example code to develop a presentation highlight tool using Python. You will learn to search the desired text for highlighting using different options.

Steps to Highlight in PowerPoint using Python

  1. Establish the environment to use Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET to highlight text
  2. Create an empty presentation using an instance of the Presentation class and access its first default slide
  3. Add an Autoshape of the Rectangle type and inset a text frame with sample text
  4. Highlight the desired text inside the added text frame using the highlight_text method
  5. Save the presentation with highlighted text on the disk

The aforementioned steps summarize the process of developing a PPTX or PPT highlighter using Python. You can either load a PowerPoint presentation file or create a new one using an instance of the Presentation class and access its first default slide. We create an autoshape in the slide by adding some sample text to its text frame, which is then followed by highlighting the required portion of the text using the highlight_text method. Finally, the presentation with highlighted text will be saved on the disk.

Code to Develop PowerPoint Presentation Highlighter using Python

This example exhibits how to highlight in PowerPoint using Python. If you ought to highlight all the strings containing the target string, use the highlight_text() method with the target string and highlight text. You can enhance the text highlighting by using the highlight text settings like whole_words_only and case_sensitive for searching and highlighting the text.

This simple topic has taught us to develop a presentation highlight tool using Python. If you intend to strike out text in a presentation, refer to the article on how to strike out text in PPTX using Python.

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