Top MS PowerPoint Shortcuts & Keyboard Commands

MS PowerPoint Shortcuts And Keyboard Commands

          By using shortcuts keys we will reduce our work-time and make it easier to work in any application. We can do all the tasks with mouse also, but it reduces our productivity and also it takes more time to complete the work. Here we will discuss about important shortcuts & keyboard commands of MS PowerPoint. These shortcuts are MS PowerPoint built-in commands. These shortcut keys are definitely helpful for you.

In this blog, we will see some important MS PowerPoint shortcut keys and their uses.

 MS Excel Shortcut Keys : 

 Working with Presentation 

PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts	Description
Ctrl+N	To create a new presentation(ppt).
Ctrl+M	To insert a new slide.
Ctrl+D	To get a duplicate selected slide.
Ctrl+O (or) Ctrl+F12	To open a presentation.
Ctrl+W	To close the presentation.
Ctrl+P (or) Ctrl+Shift+F12	To print presentation.
Ctrl+S (or) Shift+F12	To save the presentaion.
Ctrl+F	To find the text.
Ctrl+H	To replace text.
Ctrl+K	To insert a hyperlink.
Ctrl+Z	It undo an action.
Ctrl+Y	It redo or repeat an action.
Alt+F4	To Exit or Quit from PowerPoint.
Shift+F4	It repeats the Last Find action.
F6	It will switch to the next pane.
Shift+F6	It will switch to the previous pane.
Esc	To cancel an action.
F12	To perform 'Save as' action.
Alt+F11	It will display visual basic code.

 Text Operation Commands 

PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts	Description
Ctrl+Backspace	To delete one word at a time from the left side of cursor.
Ctrl+Delete	To delete one word at a time from the right side of cursor.
Ctrl+X	To cut selected text or element.
Ctrl+C	To copy selected text or element.
Ctrl+V	To paste the cut/copy objects from the clipboard.
Ctrl+ ←	To move cursor one word to the left.
Ctrl+ →	To move cursor one word to the right.
Ctrl+E	To align the paragraph in center.
Ctrl+J	To Justify the paragraph.
Ctrl+L	To align the paragraph to the left.
Ctrl+R	To align the paragraph to the right.
Ctrl+T	To format font style.
Ctrl+B	To apply bold text format.
Ctrl+U	To apply underline in a text.
Ctrl+I	To apply italic text format.
Ctrl+=	To apply Subscript text format.
Ctrl+Space	To remove manual character formatting.
Ctrl+Tab	To insert a Tab in a table cell.
Ctrl+Shift+P	To change font size.
Ctrl+Shift+>	To increase font size.
Ctrl+Shift+<	To decrease font size.
Ctrl+Shift++	To apply Superscript text format.
Ctrl+Shift+C	To copy formats.
Ctrl+Shift+V	To paste formats.
Shift+F3	To change the letter case like UPPERCASE, lowercase.....
Shift+F7	It will perform spell checking operation.
Alt+Shift+←	To promote a paragraph.
Alt+Shift+→	To demote a paragraph.
Alt+Shift+↑	To move the selected paragraph upward.
Alt+Shift+↓	To move the selected paragraph downward.
Tab	To add a new row at the bottom of the table.
F7	To check spelling.

 Selection Operation Commands 

PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts	Description
Ctrl+A(In slide pane)	To select all objects.
Ctrl+A(In slide sorter view)	To select all slides.
Ctrl+A(In text field)	To select all text.
Ctrl+↑	To move up one paragraph.
Ctrl+↓	To move down one paragraph.
Enter	To select text within a selected object.
End	It move the cursor at the end of the line.
Tab (or) Shift+Tab	To select next object.
Home	It move the cursor at the beginning of the line.

 Some Common Commands 

PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts	Description
Ctrl+Mouse Wheel	To zoom.
Ctrl+D	To get the duplicate of selected shape.
Ctrl+Arrow keys	To move the selection in arrow specific direction.
Ctrl+G	To grouping objects.
Ctrl+Shift+G	It will ungroup the objects.
Shift+F9	To show or hide Grid.
Alt+F9	To show or hide Guides.
Ctrl+G	To do changes in Grid or Guide settings.
Alt+U → Ctrl+Enter	It will show Autoshape Menu and insert shape.
Hold Shift key and start drawing figure	To create prefect square.
Double click corresponding toolbar icon	It will draw multiple similar figure.
F4	To repeat last action.
F10	To activate Menu bar.
Shift+F10 or Window special key	Context menu.

 Commands to Control SlideShows 

PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts	Description
Shift+F5	To start Slideshow from the current slide.
F5	To start Slideshow from beginning.
number+Enter	Go to slide[Number]
B (or) .	It will display a black screen, or return to Slideshow from black screen.
W (or) ,	It will display a white screen, or return to Slideshow from white screen.
Shift or +	To stop or Restart automatic slideshow.
Esc  or Ctrl+break or -	To Stop or End the slideshow.
Enter, Pagedown, →, ↓, Space or mouse click	To perform Next Animation or Advance ToNext slide.
P, PageUp, ←, ↑, or Backspace	To perform previous Animation or Return to previous Slide.
E	To Erase On-Screen Annotations.
H	Go to next Hidden Slide.
T	To set new timing while Rehearsing.
O	Use original timing while Rehearsing.
M	Use Mouse-Click to advance while Rehearsing.
Home (or) Click both mouse bottom for 2 seconds	To go to the first slide.
Ctrl+P	To Re-display the hidden Pointer and /or change the Pointer to a Pen.
Ctrl+A	To Re-display the hidden Pointer and /or/change the Pointer to a Arrow.
Ctrl+H	To hide the Pointer and Button immediately.
Ctrl+U	To hide the Pointer and Button in 15 seconds.
Shift+F10 (or) Right-Click (or) Special windows key	To Display the shortcut menu.
Tab	Go to the First or next Hyperlink on slide.
Shift+Tab	Go to the Last or Previous Hyperlink on slide.
Enter while Hyperlink is selected	To perform 'Mouse Click' behaviour of selected Hyperlink.
Shift+Enter while Hyperlink is selected	To perform 'Mouse Over' behaviour of selected Hyperlink.
F1	To display list of controls.

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