General shortcuts
Let’s get started with a few basic keyboard shortcuts that will help you opening, closing and navigating PowerPoint.
- Ctrl+Tab: Switch between different open presentations
- Ctrl+N: Create a new presentation
- Ctrl+O: Open an existing presentation
- Ctrl+Q: Save and close a presentation
- Ctrl+S: Save a presentation
- Ctrl+Y: Repeat last action
- Ctrl+W: Close a presentation
- Ctrl+Z: Undo an action
- Ctrl+F: Search in a presentation or use Find and Replace
- Ctrl+F1: Show or hide the ribbon
- Ctrl+F2: Print Preview View
- Alt+F2: Open the Save As dialog box
- Alt+F: Open the File tab menu
- Alt+A: Go to the Animations tab
- Alt+G: Open the Design tab
- Alt+H: Go to the Home tab
- Alt+K: Go to the Transitions tab
- Alt+N: Open the Insert tab
- Alt+Q: Go to the “Tell me what you want to do” box
- Alt+R: Go to the Review tab
- Alt+S: Go to the Slide Show tab
- Alt+W: Go to View tab
- Alt+X: Go to the Add-ins tab
- Alt+Y: Go to the Help tab
Selection and navigation shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can also be of great help when it comes to quickly navigating throughout your presentation. The following shortcuts will enable you to select multiple objects on your slides, or move the slides inside the presentation.
- Ctrl+A: Select all text in a textbox, all slides in a presentation or all objects on a slide
- Tab: Select and/or switch to the next object on a slide
- Shift+Tab: Select or move to the previous object on a slide
- Home: Go to the first slide, or from within a text box, go to the beginning of the line
- End: Go to the last slide, or from within a text box, go to the end of the line
- Page Down: Go to the next slide
- Page Up: Go the previous slide
- Ctrl+Down Arrow: Move a slide down in the presentation (click on a slide thumbnail first)
- Ctrl+Up Arrow: Move a slide up in the presentation
- Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow: Move a slide to the beginning of the presentation (click on a slide thumbnail first)
- Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow : Move a slide to the end of the presentation
Format and edition shortcuts
Editing and formatting your presentation has never been easier ! These shortcuts will make you a quick editing pro for PowerPoint.
- Ctrl+B: Add or remove bold to selected text
- Ctrl+C: Copy selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)
- Ctrl+D: Duplicate the selected object or slide (for the latter, click on a slide thumbnail first)
- Ctrl+E: Center a paragraph
- Ctrl+I: Add or remove italics to selected text
- Ctrl+J: Justify a paragraph
- Ctrl+K: Insert a hyperlink
- Ctrl+L: Left align a paragraph
- Ctrl+M: Insert a new slide
- Ctrl+R: Right align a paragraph
- Ctrl+T: Open the Font dialog box when text or object is selected
- Ctrl+U: Add or remove underline to selected text
- Ctrl+V: Paste selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)
- Ctrl+X: Cut selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)
- Ctrl+Alt+V: Open the Paste Special dialog box
- Delete: Remove selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)
