Cannot use CTRL and individually select letter in several places at the same time

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In Word I can hold down the CTRL key and select several different
letters in different places in the document and format those selected
spots the same way. In Powerpoint, all the text between each place I
put the cursor is selected even when I hold down the CTRL key. Is there
any way around this?

Thanks,
Jeff

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