I want to know how to select a segment of text (from a scanned-in document)
to the foreground. For example, I scan in a report, but only want to
highlight/select a portion of that report -- and excerpt -- so that the
highlighted/selected portion “jumps” from the page (with the remainder of the
report appearing in the background).

The selected portion should have some sort of shadow or trial showing where
in the report the excerpt came from.

I see this done all the time in PPT presenatations. I'm sorry I don't know
how else to describe the process. Thanks.

First insert your report image into the PPT - call this your "main image."
Now select CTRL - D to duplicate that image - call this your "call out."
Crop the call out to narrow it now to the specific text you want to call
out, To do this, select the call out image, in your picture tool bar (view >
tool bars > picture) select the crop tool and drag in edges to desired crop.
Place the "Call Out" where you want it to end up after the animation.

Next you'll want to animate the Call Out. There are many ways to do this,
but start with Slide Show >Custom Animation > Add Effect > Entrance > Faded
Zoom.

Please let me know if this works for you.
--
Sandy


"dharris" wrote:

> I want to know how to select a segment of text (from a scanned-in document)
> to the foreground. For example, I scan in a report, but only want to
> highlight/select a portion of that report -- and excerpt -- so that the
> highlighted/selected portion “jumps” from the page (with the remainder of the
> report appearing in the background).
>
> The selected portion should have some sort of shadow or trial showing where
> in the report the excerpt came from.
>
> I see this done all the time in PPT presenatations. I'm sorry I don't know
> how else to describe the process. Thanks.
>
>