You can make a picture transparent in your PowerPoint slides so that you can add text over it or use it as a background.

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Change the color of text on a PPT slide! Learn how to add multi-color text to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to make it attractive.

For text to overlap in PowerPoint 2007 it has to be entered into separate text boxes. If you think of each text box as a sticky-note, you can envision how PowerPoint works with objects.

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.