MS PowerPoint

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft PowerPoint

Speed up your outputs by using these shortcuts.

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HOTKEY	DESCRIPTION
General Shortcuts
Ctrl + N	New Presentation
Ctrl + O	Open Presentation
Ctrl + M	Insert New Slide
Ctrl + X	Cut Selected item
Ctrl + C	Copy Selected item
Ctrl + V	Paste item
Ctrl + Z	Undo last action
Ctrl + Y	Repeat last action
Ctrl + A	Select All
Ctrl + G	Displays Grid and Guides Dialogue Box
Ctrl + K	Insert New Hyperlink (only in text box)
Ctrl + F	Find Text in a slide (only in text box)
Ctrl + H	Replace Text in a slide (only in text box)
Ctrl + D	Duplicate selected item (Slide Sorter view)
Delete	Delete selected item ( Slide Sorter view)
F7	Spelling check (only contents in text boxes)
Alt + F9	Toggle the guides on and off
Shift + F9	Toggle the grid on and off
Ctrl + Shift + G	Group objects
Ctrl + Shift + H	Ungroup objects
Ctrl + Shift + J	Regroup objects
Slideshow Shortcuts
F1	To View Slideshow Controls
Shift + F10	Display the shortcut menu
F5	Start Slideshow
Page Down, Right Arrow, or Spacebar	Perform the next animation or advance to next slide
Page Up, Left Arrow, or Backspace	Perform the previous animation or return to previous slide
Slide Number + Enter	Go to Specific Slide
H	Go to the next hidden slide
Tab	Go to the first or next hyperlink on a slide
Shift + Tab	Go to the last or previous hyperlink on a slide
B or Period (.)	Display Black Screen/return to the Slideshow
W or Comma (,)	Display White Screen/return to the Slideshow
Esc or Hyphen (-)	End a Slideshow
Right-click PowerPoint file,  in Windows Explorer and choose Show	Start Slideshow directly without even opening PowerPoint program itself
Ctrl + clicking on View Show in the Slide Show menu	View the slide in a small window atop the slide except launching in full-screen mode
Compiled & Tested by: Muhammad Ajmal Beig Naz Principal, Pentium Graphics Center & Training Institute

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