{"id":743,"date":"2013-01-17T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T12:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsofttraining.net\/b\/powerpointtraining\/?p=318"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:28:02","slug":"keyboard-shortcuts-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/keyboard-shortcuts-powerpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts in PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/powerpointtraining\/files\/2013\/01\/saving-time-powerpoint-keyboard-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"save time in microsoft powerpoint with keyboard shortcuts\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/>Some people spend a lot of time working with Microsoft Office, performing the same actions over and over again. Using the mouse is a friendly and easy way to navigate around your presentations, but keyboard shortcuts can really <a title=\"Save time in PowerPoint \" href=\"\/b\/what-is-the-quick-access-toolbar-and-whats-it-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speed up your workflow<\/a>. Just a couple sprinkled throughout your week can add up to significant time savings. Even if you&#8217;re not the kind of person who likes to use keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint, try some of these out and see how natural they become in a short amount of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editing a Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ctrl + N : Open a new blank presentation<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl + M : Insert a new slide<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl + D : duplicate an object<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl + SHIFT + D :duplicate selected slide<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl + F1 : show\/hide the ribbon<\/li>\n<li>F5 : starts slide show from the first slide<\/li>\n<li>SHIFT + F5 : starts slide show from the current slide<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl + K : opens\u00a0hyperlink\u00a0dialogue box<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl + W : close active window<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl + Q : close the program<\/li>\n<li>F4 : repeats the last action performed<\/li>\n<li>F7 : Spell check<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When in Slide Show view<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>N = next slide<\/li>\n<li>P = Previous slide<\/li>\n<li>B = black out the screen<\/li>\n<li>W = white out the screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be surprised how useful keyboard shortcuts can be once you get used to them.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more, browse the largest schedule of <a title=\"PowerPoint training london and uk wide schedule courses\" href=\"\/microsoft\/powerpoint-training-london.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STL PowerPoint training London<\/a> and UK wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people spend a lot of time working with Microsoft Office, performing the same actions over and over again. Using the mouse is a friendly and easy way to navigate around your presentations, but keyboard shortcuts can really speed up your workflow. Just a couple sprinkled throughout your week can add up to significant time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[329,428,481,529,534,547],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powerpoint-training","tag-keyboard-shortcuts","tag-powerpoint-training-y","tag-setting-options-in-powerpoint","tag-technology","tag-time-savers","tag-tricks-and-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}