Keyboard Shortcuts

PowerPoint Basics: Opening PowerPoint; Understanding the screen; Inserting slides
Adding and editing content: Inserting text; Inserting notes, headers and footers; Formatting text and lists
Working with design: Customizing background; Applying and creating templates; Design tips
Working with graphics: Downloading, inserting and editing images; Image Resources for Health & Life Sciences; Drawing and editing objects
Working with animation: Animating text and images; Slide transitions
Adding sound and video: Sounds, narration and music; Video requirements
Graphs and tables: Working with graphs; Importing and linking data from Excel to PowerPoint
PowerPoint online: Hyperlinks and action buttons; Putting up a presentation on the web
Printing and Presenting: Printing options; Running a slide show
Links: PowerPoint DO's and DON'T's; Other PowerPoint websites; Workshop evaluation
(for on-site workshop participants only)

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl + A	Select All
Ctrl + B	Bold
Ctrl + C	Copy
Ctrl + D	Duplicate
Ctrl + E	Center Text
Ctrl + F	Find
Ctrl + G	Show Guides
Ctrl + H	Replace Text
Ctrl + I	Italics
Ctrl + K	Justify Text
Ctrl + L	Left Align Text
Ctrl + M	New Slide
Ctrl + N	New Presentation
Ctrl + O	Open
Ctrl + P	Print
Ctrl + Q	Close PowerPoint
Ctrl + R	Right Align Text
Ctrl + S	Save
Ctrl + T	Format Fonts
Ctrl + U	Underline Text
Ctrl + V	Paste
Ctrl + W	Close Document
Ctrl + X	Cut
Ctrl + Y	Redo
Ctrl + Z	Undo
Alt + Shift + Left / Right Arrow	Promote / Demote (indent) Paragraph
Shift + Enter	Enter break (without bullet or new paragraph)
Shift + Drag	Moves items on the same line (horizontally/vertically) Draws symmetrical shapes
B while in slide show	Turns the screen black. To return to slide show, hit the Space bar.
A in slide show	Hides pointer and Show Controls button
Ctrl + P in slide show	Activates pen
E in slide show	Pressing E erases the pen marks on the screen.

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