Powerpoint 2016: Text visible but grayed out until click?

I want to create slides where text lines are shown one by one, but I want the slide to be essentially fully visible from the start -- but contents to be greyed out until they are discussed. This is the behavior that is implemented by default e.g. in LaTeX beamer.

The idea is to make it possible to read the whole slide at once, but to still emphasize the progress through the content.

I know it is possible to to so by manually placing semi-transparent white layers on top of the text and then removing them one by one, or similar workarounds. However, what I have found so far has at least one of these issues:

• Impractical. The workaround I described is impractical for editing, wasting time that would better be spent on the contents. Enough so, that I'd rather fall back to just using the "appear" animation.
• Breaks handouts. I need to produce a PDF document for future reference out of it. These contain all objects on the slide, so the handout would have everything grayed out.

Proper animation features have neither of these issues, but I couldn't find one that matches my "visible but deemphasized" goal.

Is there such a feature in Powerpoint 2016 (which is what I have at work)?

Remark. LPChip has provided a workaround in the comments and as an answer. Still not as good as a proper official solution, but viable.

Solution 1:

Considering what you want and what you don't want, an option is to create a sheet with the text in grayed out state, then copy that text and paste it. Edit the color to black or whatever the active state is, move it over the other text so that it overlaps exactly.

Now use animation to draw it on screen on a line-by-line basis.

You might even be able to select both text objects and alter its text simultaneously.