Guest Author - Chris Curtis

Common Keyboard Shortcuts for PowerPoint
If you become practiced at using keyboard shortcuts, you will find that your proficiency in PowerPoint will improve and your work will be accomplished more quickly. These keyboard techniques are called shortcuts because they take less time to execute a command then using the mouse to click on an icon or selecting a menu command. One way to make using shortcuts a habit is to start by selecting one or two commands that you use frequently and instead of reaching for the mouse, use the short cut instead. Once those have become a habit, select a couple more.
Open a New Document
• Press CTRL+N

Open an existing document
• Press CTRL+O – Launches PowerPoints Open Dialog Box Default Folder (usually My Documents)

Close a document
• Press CTRL+W

Save a document
• Press CTRL+S

Copy
• Select text or object to be copied.
• Press CTRL+C

Cut
• Select text or object to be cut.
• Press CTRL+X

Paste
• Press CTRL+V

Bold
• Select text to make bold.
• Press CTRL+B

Italicized
• Select text to make italicized.
• Press CTRL+I

Underline
• Select text to make underlined.
• Press CTRL+U

Launch Slideshow
• Press F5

Open the Find Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + F

Open the Replace Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + H

Decrease font size
• Select text to be decreased
• Press CTRL+SHIFT+<

Increase font size
• Select text to be increased
• Press CTRL+SHIFT+>

Remove paragraph or character formatting.
• Select text to clear formatting
• Press CTRL+SPACEBAR

Undo the last action
• Press CTRL+Z

Redo the last action
• Press CTRL+Y