PowerPoint built-in shortcuts and commands

PowerPoint built-in shortcuts and commands

 

Command Shortcut
Group objects Ctrl+Shift+G
Ungroup objects Ctrl+Shift+H
Show or hide grid Shift+F9
Show or hide guides Alt+F9
Change grid or guide settings Ctrl+G
Show AutoShape menu and insert shape Alt+U -> Ctrl+ENTER
Insert perfect squares Press shift first, start drawing figure
Move selection in specific direction Ctrl+ARROW
Zoom Ctrl+mouse wheel
Duplicate selectedshapes Ctrl+D
Insert new slide Ctrl+M
Draw multiple similar figures Double-click corresponding toolbar icon
Repeatlast action F4
Activate menu bar F10
Context menu Shift+F10 or Windows special key
Work with presentations Shortcut
Create new presentation Ctrl+N
Insertnew slide Ctrl+M
Duplicate selected slide Ctrl+D
Open a presentations Ctrl+O
Close presentation Ctrl+W
Print presentation Ctrl+P
Save presentation Ctrl+S
Quit PowerPoint Alt+F4
Find text Ctrl+F
Replace text Ctrl+H
Repeat the last find action Shift+F4
Insert a hyperlink Ctrl+K
Undo an action Ctrl+Z
Redo or repeat an action Ctrl+Y
Switch to the next pane F6
Switch to the previous pane Shift+F6
Cancel an action ESC
Carry out Save As command F12
Carry out Save command Shift+F12
Carry out Open command Ctrl+F12
Carry out Print command Ctrl+Shift+F12
Display Visual Basic code Alt+F11
Text operations Shortcut
Delete one word to the left Ctrl+BACKSPACE
Delete one word to the right Ctrl+DELETE
Cut selected object Ctrl+X
Copy selected object Ctrl+C
Paste cut or copied object Ctrl+V
Move cursor one word to the left Ctrl+LEFT ARROW
Move cursor one word to the right Ctrl+RIGHT ARROW
Changecase letters (toggles through sentence case, lowercase, and uppercase) Shift+F3
Center paragraph Ctrl+E
Justify paragraph Ctrl+J
Left align paragraph Ctrl+L
Right align paragraph Ctrl+R
Promoteparagraph Alt+Shift+LEFT ARROW
Demote paragraph Alt+Shift+RIGHT ARROW
Move selected paragraphs up Alt+Shift+UP ARROW
Move selected paragraphs down Alt+Shift+DOWN ARROW
Format font style Ctrl+T
Changefont size Ctrl+Shift+P
Increasefont size Ctrl+Shift+>
Decrease font size Ctrl+Shift+<
Apply bold formatting Ctrl+B
Apply an underline Ctrl+U
Apply italic formatting Ctrl+I
Apply subscript formatting Ctrl+EQUAL SIGN
Apply superscript formatting Ctrl+Shift+PLUS SIGN
Remove manual character formatting Ctrl+SPACEBAR
Copy formats Ctrl+Shift+C
Paste formats Ctrl+Shift+V
Insert a tab in a table cell Ctrl+TAB
Addnew row at the bottom of a table TAB at the end of the last row
Check spelling F7
Find next misspelling (Automatic Spell Checking enabled) Shift+F7
Selection Shortcut
Select next object (with an object selected) TAB or Shift+TAB
Select text within selected object ENTER
Select all objects Ctrl+A (in slide pane)
Select all slides Ctrl+A (in slide sorter view)
Select all text Ctrl+A (in text field)
Move to the end of a line END
Move to the beginning of a line HOME
Move up one paragraph Ctrl+UP ARROW
Move down one paragraph Ctrl+DOWN ARROW
Control slide shows Shortcut
Start slideshow from current slide Shift+F5
Slideshow from beginning F5
Perform next animation or advance tonext slide ENTER, PAGE DOWN, RIGHT ARROW, DOWN ARROW, SPACEBAR, or mouse click
Perform previous animation or return toprevious slide P, PAGE UP, LEFT ARROW, UP ARROW, or BACKSPACE
Go to slide <number>+ENTER
Display a black screen, or return to slide show from black screen B or PERIOD
Display a white screen, or return to the slide show from a white screen W or COMMA
Stop or restartautomatic slide show S or PLUS SIGN
End slide show ESC, Ctrl+BREAK, or HYPHEN
Erase on-screen annotations E
Go to next hidden slide H
Set new timings while rehearsing T
Use original timings while rehearsing O
Use mouse-click to advance while rehearsing M
Return to first slide HOME or both mouse buttons for 2 seconds
Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to a pen Ctrl+P
Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to an arrow Ctrl+A
Hidepointer and button immediately Ctrl+H
Hidepointer and button in 15 seconds Ctrl+U
Display shortcut menu Shift+F10 or right-click or special windows key
Go to first or next hyperlink on slide TAB
Go to last or previous hyperlink on slide Shift+TAB
Perform “mouse click” behavior of selected hyperlink ENTER while hyperlink is selected
Perform “mouse over” behavior of selected hyperlink Shift+ENTER while hyperlink is selected
Display list of controls F1

Leave a Comment