When it comes to the most important programs in generating our own slide-based multimedia presentations, PowerPoint is in the lead. As many of you may know, this is a program that is part of the Microsoft office suite known and used worldwide, we mean Office .
As we say, with this we mean a well-known application for creating multimedia presentations made up of slides. In this way, it presents us with the necessary functions to create personalized presentations that have not stopped evolving over the years. Thus, its developers have integrated new functions and features to improve their experience of use.
In this way, in these times we can use all kinds of content that enrich the slides that we design step by step. With this we mean the use of photos, videos, graphics, tables, animations , etc. With all this, it is possible to capture the attention of those for whom the project is directed, which is one of the objectives of all this. It is worth mentioning that for all this we find a really simple and intuitive user interface. This is divided into a series of menus and submenus that give us access to most of the available functions.
However, these can sometimes be somewhat annoying or inaccessible, so we propose another solution. In the event that we want to be able to use the application in a more effective way, PowerPoint has a large number of keyboard shortcuts. These give us direct access to the different functions without having to search through the menus.
Basic PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts
These options to which we refer here are many and of the most varied. That is why it is necessary that you memorize them all. However, you can keep the most used in each case, they will save you a good amount of time. In fact some of these key combinations that we will show you, are also valid for other programs of the Office itself. Therefore they can be useful in the entire Microsoft suite.
- Ctrl + N: create new presentation .
- Ctrl + M: insert new slide .
- Ctrl + D: duplicate the selected slide.
- Ctrl + O: open a presentation.
- Ctrl + W: close the presentation.
- Ctrl + P: print a presentation.
- Ctrl + S: save the presentation.
- Alt + F4: Exit PowerPoint.
- Ctrl + F: search for text.
- Ctrl + H: replace text.
- Shift + F4: repeat the last search action.
- Ctrl + K: insert a hyperlink .
- Ctrl + Z: undo an action.
- Ctrl + Y: redo or repeat an action.
- F6: switch to the next panel.
- Shift + F6: switch to the previous panel.
- Esc: cancel an action.
- F12: run Save As.
- Shift + F12: execute Save.
- Ctrl + F12: execute Open.
- Ctrl + Shift + F12: run Print .
- Alt + F11: show Visual Basic code.
- F4: repeat the last action.
- F10: activate the menu bar.
Keyboard shortcuts for texts
- Ctrl + Space: delete word on the left.
- Ctrl + Del: delete word on the right.
- Ctrl + X: cut selected object.
- Ctrl + C: copy selected object.
- Ctrl + V: paste cut or copied object.
- Ctrl + left cursor: move the cursor one word to the left.
- Ctrl + right cursor: move cursor one word to the right.
- Shift + F3: switch between upper and lower case.
- Ctrl + E: center paragraph.
- Ctrl + J: justify paragraph.
- Ctrl + L: align the paragraph to the left.
- Ctrl + R: align paragraph to the right.
- Alt + Shift + cursor up: move selected paragraphs up.
- Alt + Shift + cursor down: move selected paragraphs down.
- Ctrl + T: Format font style.
- Ctrl + Shift + P: change font size.
- Ctrl + Shift +>: Increase font size.
- Ctrl + Shift + <: decrease the font size.
- Ctrl + B: apply bold formatting.
- Ctrl + U: apply an underline.
- Ctrl + I: apply italic format.
- Ctrl + =: Apply subscript format.
- Ctrl + Shift + +: Apply superscript format.
- Ctrl + Space: remove character formatting.
- Ctrl + Shift + C: copy formats.
- Ctrl + Shift + V: paste formats .
- Ctrl + Tab: insert tab stop in a table cell.
- F7: check spelling.
- Shift + F7: search next word.
- Shift + Tab: select next object.
- Enter: select text in the selected object.
- Ctrl + A: select all objects.
- End: go to the end of a line.
- Home: go to the beginning of a line.
- Ctrl + cursor up: move a paragraph up.
- Ctrl + course down: move a paragraph down.
Keyboard shortcuts to control the presentation
- F5: start presentation from the beginning.
- Shift + F5: Start presentation from current slide.
- Enter: next animation or advance to the next slide.
- Space: Play previous animation or go back to the previous slide.
- Number + Enter: go to the slide.
- B: Show a black screen.
- W: show a blank screen .
- +: stop or restart automatic presentation.
- Esc: end the presentation.
- E: delete annotations .
- H: go to the next hidden slide.
- T: set new intervals between slides.
- Or: use original intervals.
- Ctrl + P: Show hidden pointer or switch to pen pointer.
- Ctrl + A: Show hidden pointer or switch to arrow pointer.
- Ctrl + H: hide the pointer and button.
- Ctrl + U: Hide the pointer and button in 15 seconds.
- Shift + F10: show context menu .
- TAB: go to the next hyperlink on the slide.
- Shift + TAB: go to the previous hyperlink on the slide.
PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts for shapes and objects
- Ctrl + G: group objects.
- Ctrl + Shift + G: ungroup objects.
- Shift + F9: show or hide grid.
- Alt + F9: show or hide guides.
- Ctrl + G: change the guide or grid settings.
- Ctrl + Enter: Show AutoShape menu.
- Ctrl + cursor: move selection.
- Ctrl + D: duplicate selected shapes.
- Alt + N: insert a rectangle .
- Alt + Shift + N: insert a square.
- Alt + O: insert a circle .
- Alt + l: insert a line.
- Alt + T: insert text box.
- Alt + R: duplicate selected objects on the right.
- Alt + Shift + R: duplicate selected objects on the left.
- Alt + D: duplicate selected objects down.
- Alt + Shift + D: duplicate selected objects upwards.
- Alt + Q: group selected objects.
- Alt + W: ungroup selected objects.
- Alt + E: regroup selected objects.