PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts to improve your use and efficiency in Microsoft Office PowerPoint.

Welcome to 123PPT PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Keyboard Shortcuts in PowerPoint.

Within this section you'll find tips and tricks that provide insight into working with keyboard shortcuts and "hot-keys" within PowerPoint, to help you gain the most out of working with the application.

Our PowerPoint professionals and technical staff, have compiled these helpful PowerPoint tips and techniques, and continue to add new tips and helpful user tricks each week, to help increase your productivity, and effectiveness with the worlds leading presentation tool.

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POWERPOINT SHORTCUTS

Our latest PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for working with keyboard shortcuts and "Hot-Keys" can be seen below:

Selecting text and PowerPoint objects.

Deleting text and PowerPoint objects.

Copying text and PowerPoint objects.

Text navigation.

Aligning paragraphs.

Changing and resizing fonts.

Copying and applying font character formats.

Drawing and formatting.

Controlling slides in a slide show.

Working with slide and presentation files.

The Function Keys.


Selecting text and PowerPoint objects.

SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW		Moves cursor one character to the right.
SHIFT+LEFT ARROW		Moves cursor one character to the left.
CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW		Moves cursor to the end of a word.
CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW		Moves cursor to the start of a word.
SHIFT+UP ARROW		Moves cursor one line up.
SHIFT+DOWN ARROW		Moves cursor one line down.
ENTER		To enter text within an object.
CTRL+A in the slide pane		Selects all objects.
CTRL+A in the slide sorter view		Selects all slides.
CTRL+A in the outline pane		Selects all text.

Deleting text and PowerPoint objects.

DELETE		Deletes one character to the right.
BACKSPACE		Deletes one character to the left.
CTRL+DELETE		Deletes one word to the right.
CTRL+BACKSPACE		Deletes one word to the left.

Copying text and PowerPoint objects.

CTRL+C		Copies the selected text or object.
CTRL+X		Cuts the selected text or object.
CTRL+V		Pastes the selected text or object.

Text navigation.

LEFT ARROW		Moves cursor one character to the left.
RIGHT ARROW		Moves cursor one character to the right.
UP ARROW		Moves cursor one character line up.
DOWN ARROW		Moves cursor one character line down.
END		Moves cursor to the end of the current line of text.
HOME		Moves cursor to the start of the current line of text.
CTRL+LEFT ARROW		Moves cursor one word to the left.
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW		Moves cursor one word to the right.
CTRL+UP ARROW		Moves cursor one paragraph up.
CTRL+DOWN ARROW		Moves cursor one paragraph down.
CTRL+END		Moves cursor to the end of the text box.
CTRL+HOME		Moves cursor to the start of the text box.

Aligning paragraphs.

CTRL+E		Center a paragraph.
CTRL+R		Align paragraph to the right.
CTRL+L		Align paragraph to the left.
CTRL+J		Justify a paragraph.

Changing and resizing fonts.

CTRL+SHIFT+F		Change the font.
CTRL+SHIFT+P		Change the font size.
CTRL+SHIFT+>		Increase the font size.
CTRL+SHIFT+<		Decrease the font size.

Copying and applying font character formats.

SHIFT+F3		Change the case of selected characters.
CTRL+B		Apply bold formatting.
CTRL+U		Apply an underline formatting.
CTRL+I		Apply italic formatting.
CTRL+SHIFT+PLUS SIGN		Apply superscript formatting.
CTRL+EQUAL SIGN		Apply subscript formatting.
CTRL+SHIFT+C		Copy text formatting.
CTRL+SHIFT+V		Paste and apply text formatting.
CTRL+SPACEBAR		Removes manual character formatting.

Drawing and formatting.

CTRL+G		Show and Hide Guides.
CTRL+Shift+G		Group objects.
CTRL+Shift+H		Ungroup objects.
CTRL+Shift+J		Regroup objects.
Shift+Click Slide View Button		Switch from Normal View to Master View.
Shift+Resize		Resize and maintain proportions.
CTRL+Resize		Resize from center.
CTRL+Shift+Resize		Resize from center and maintain proportions.
Shift+Rotate tool		Rotate in increments of 15 degrees.
CTRL+Rotate tool		Rotate from corner.
Shift+CTRL+Rotate tool		Rotate in increments of 15 degrees from corner.
Shift+Resize		Extend line along same angle and path.
CTRL+ALT+Click using curve tool		Makes a straight segment whilst using curve tool.
Arrow Key		Moves object one grid unit in arrow direction.
CTRL+Arrow Key		Moves object one pixel in arrow direction.
ALT		Releases guide snap temporarily.
CTRL+Drag Guide		Creates multiple guides.

Controlling slides in a slide show.

number+ENTER		Go to slide number.
B		Toggle between black and unblack screen.
W		Toggle between white and unwhite screen.
S		Stop or restart an automatic slide show.
ESC		End a slide show.
E		Erase screen annotations.
H		Go to next hidden slide.
T		Set new timings during rehearsal.
O		Use default timings during rehearsal.
M		Use mouse-click to advance during rehearsal.
CTRL+H		Hide the pointer and button .
CTRL+U		Hide the pointer and button after 15 seconds.
CTRL+P		Redisplay hidden pointer and change pointer to a pen.
CTRL+A		Redisplay hidden pointer and change pointer to an arrow.
TAB		Go to the first or next hyperlink on the slide.
SHIFT+TAB		Go to the last or previous hyperlink on the slide .
ENTER with hyperlink selected		Perform the mouse-click behaviour of the hyperlink.
SHIFT+ENTER with hyperlink selected		Perform the mouse-over behaviour of the hyperlink.

Working with slide and presentation files.

CTRL+N		Begin a new presentation.
CTRL+O		Open existing presentation.
CTRL+M		Insert new slide.
Shift+CTRL+M		Insert new slide with properties of last inserted slide.
CTRL+D		Make a copy of the selected slide.
CTRL+F		Find in presentation.
CTRL+H		Replace in presentation.
CTRL+K		Insert a hyperlink.
F7		Check spelling.
CTRL+Z		Undo an action.
CTRL+Y		Redo or repeat action.
F5		Run the presentation.
CTRL+P		Print presentation.
CTRL+S		Save current presentation.
F12		Save As current presentation.
CTRL+Q		Close and quit current presentation.
F6		Move clockwise to the next pane.
SHIFT+F6		Move anticlockwise to the next pane.

The Function Keys.

F1		Display help or the Office assistant.
SHIFT+F1		Start context-sensitive help.
F2		Select the text, or text within a text box.
ALT+F2		Save AS.
SHIFT+F3		Change the case of selected characters.
F4		Repeat the last action.
SHIFT+F4		Repeat the last Find action to Find next.
CTRL+F4		Close current presentation.
ALT+F4		Quit PowerPoint.
F5		Launch the current presentation slide show.
CTRL+F5		Restore the default presentation window size.
ALT+F5		Restore the default PowerPoint application size.
F6		Move clockwise to the next pane.
SHIFT+F6		Move anticlockwise to the next pane.
CTRL+F6		Move clockwise to the next presentation.
CTRL+SHIFT+F6		Move anticlockwise to the next presentation.
F7		Run the spell checker.
ALT+F7		Next misspelling with automatic spell checking enabled.
CTRL+F7		Execute the Move command.
CTRL+F8		Execute the Size command.
F10		Activate the main menu bar.
CTRL+F10		Maximize the presentation window.
ALT+F10		Maximize the PowerPoint application size.
CTRL+SHIFT+F10		Activate the menu bar.
ALT+F11		Display Visual Basic code of the presentation.
F12		Execute Save As command.
SHIFT+F12		Execute Save command.
CTRL+F12		Execute Open command.
CTRL+SHIFT+F12		Execute Print command.

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