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
- 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)
