Are you referring to the laser pointer feature in PowerPoint?

You could switch from the laser pointer to the pen (ink annotation); but it's sort of clunky for moving from slide to slide and from bullet to bullet. There are a keyboard shortcuts that might things easier. While presenting...CTRL+left click for the pointer, CTRL+A for the mouse arrow, CTRL+P for the pen.

Alternatively, you could use subtle (fade entrance with a dim after animation) animations on the text box with bullets OR create a "spotlight" which is more complicated that it's probably worth. You should be able to find instructions for both on YouTube.

Good luck,

Lesli

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 Hi my esteemed listmates,

I've been searching all over Google and YoutTube for what I thought was going to be a straightforward answer to a PowerPoint question, mostly.

I've reached the area where you can select a pointer but that appears very small on screen.

I was trying to ascertain how one could create a "mobile" arrow where you have an arrow appear on screen and could then drag that arrow with your cursor to point at different bullet points on a PPT slide ore even set it so the arrow would point at a bullet point and then would move to the next bullet point by itself (times for every 3+ minutes) so you don't have to keep manually moving the arrow as you're instructing (which can be distracting).

I'm not certain what that PPT technique is called which can often be problematic. If you don't know the term it's challenging to research it.

I Goolged pointer, arrow, moving arrow.

Thank you!

Charles.

Charles Meyer
Charlotte County Public Library

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