Powerpoint Tricks And Shortcuts

Command	Shortcut
Group objects	Ctrl+Shift+G
Ungroup objects	Ctrl+Shift+H
Show or hide grid	Shift+F9
Show or hide guides	Alt+F9
Change grid or guide settings	Ctrl+G
Show AutoShape menu and insert shape	Alt+U -> Ctrl+ENTER
Insert perfect squares	Press shift first, start drawing figure
Move selection in specific direction	Ctrl+ARROW
Zoom	Ctrl+mouse wheel
Duplicate selectedshapes	Ctrl+D
Insert new slide	Ctrl+M
Draw multiple similar figures	Double-click corresponding toolbar icon
Repeatlast action	F4
Activate menu bar	F10
Context menu	Shift+F10 or Windows special key
Work with presentations	Shortcut
Create new presentation	Ctrl+N
Insertnew slide	Ctrl+M
Duplicate selected slide	Ctrl+D
Open a presentations	Ctrl+O
Close presentation	Ctrl+W
Print presentation	Ctrl+P
Save presentation	Ctrl+S
Quit PowerPoint	Alt+F4
Find text	Ctrl+F
Replace text	Ctrl+H
Repeat the last find action	Shift+F4
Insert a hyperlink	Ctrl+K
Undo an action	Ctrl+Z
Redo or repeat an action	Ctrl+Y
Switch to the next pane	F6
Switch to the previous pane	Shift+F6
Cancel an action	ESC
Carry out Save As command	F12
Carry out Save command	Shift+F12
Carry out Open command	Ctrl+F12
Carry out Print command	Ctrl+Shift+F12
Display Visual Basic code	Alt+F11
Text operations	Shortcut
Delete one word to the left	Ctrl+BACKSPACE
Delete one word to the right	Ctrl+DELETE
Cut selected object	Ctrl+X
Copy selected object	Ctrl+C
Paste cut or copied object	Ctrl+V
Move cursor one word to the left	Ctrl+LEFT ARROW
Move cursor one word to the right	Ctrl+RIGHT ARROW
Changecase letters (toggles through sentence case, lowercase, and uppercase)	Shift+F3
Center paragraph	Ctrl+E
Justify paragraph	Ctrl+J
Left align paragraph	Ctrl+L
Right align paragraph	Ctrl+R
Promoteparagraph	Alt+Shift+LEFT ARROW
Demote paragraph	Alt+Shift+RIGHT ARROW
Move selected paragraphs up	Alt+Shift+UP ARROW
Move selected paragraphs down	Alt+Shift+DOWN ARROW
Format font style	Ctrl+T
Changefont size	Ctrl+Shift+P
Increasefont size	Ctrl+Shift+>
Decrease font size	Ctrl+Shift+<
Apply bold formatting	Ctrl+B
Apply an underline	Ctrl+U
Apply italic formatting	Ctrl+I
Apply subscript formatting	Ctrl+EQUAL SIGN
Apply superscript formatting	Ctrl+Shift+PLUS SIGN
Remove manual character formatting	Ctrl+SPACEBAR
Copy formats	Ctrl+Shift+C
Paste formats	Ctrl+Shift+V
Insert a tab in a table cell	Ctrl+TAB
Addnew row at the bottom of a table	TAB at the end of the last row
Check spelling	F7
Find next misspelling (Automatic Spell Checking enabled)	Shift+F7
Selection	Shortcut
Select next object (with an object selected)	TAB or Shift+TAB
Select text within selected object	ENTER
Select all objects	Ctrl+A (in slide pane)
Select all slides	Ctrl+A (in slide sorter view)
Select all text	Ctrl+A (in text field)
Move to the end of a line	END
Move to the beginning of a line	HOME
Move up one paragraph	Ctrl+UP ARROW
Move down one paragraph	Ctrl+DOWN ARROW
Control slide shows	Shortcut
Start slideshow from current slide	Shift+F5
Slideshow from beginning	F5
Perform next animation or advance tonext slide	ENTER, PAGE DOWN, RIGHT ARROW, DOWN ARROW, SPACEBAR, or mouse click
Perform previous animation or return toprevious slide	P, PAGE UP, LEFT ARROW, UP ARROW, or BACKSPACE
Go to slide	<number>+ENTER
Display a black screen, or return to slide show from black screen	B or PERIOD
Display a white screen, or return to the slide show from a white screen	W or COMMA
Stop or restartautomatic slide show	S or PLUS SIGN
End slide show	ESC, Ctrl+BREAK, or HYPHEN
Erase on-screen annotations	E
Go to next hidden slide	H
Set new timings while rehearsing	T
Use original timings while rehearsing	O
Use mouse-click to advance while rehearsing	M
Return to first slide	HOME or both mouse buttons for 2 seconds
Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to a pen	Ctrl+P
Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to an arrow	Ctrl+A
Hidepointer and button immediately	Ctrl+H
Hidepointer and button in 15 seconds	Ctrl+U
Display shortcut menu	Shift+F10 or right-click or special windows key
Go to first or next hyperlink on slide	TAB
Go to last or previous hyperlink on slide	Shift+TAB
Perform "mouse click" behavior of selected hyperlink	ENTER while hyperlink is selected
Perform "mouse over" behavior of selected hyperlink	Shift+ENTER while hyperlink is selected
Display list of controls	F1

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

These are some keyboard shortcuts that I found extremely useful. If you know some more useful keyboard shortcuts, do mention them in the comments.

Windows key+D: This shortcut is the keyboard equivalent of “Show the Desktop”. It is useful for quickly minimizing every open window when someone walks in and you are doing some private work.

Ctrl+Shift+Esc: This shortcut directly starts the task manager. While Alt+Ctrl+Del was used to bring out the Task Manager in Windows XP and earlier versions, in Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7, it just brings up the lock this computer screen.

Ctrl+Click: This shortcut is useful for opening a link in a background tab. This is useful when you have to load a page without leaving the current one.

Alt+Print Screen: takes the screenshot of the current active window as opposed to just Print Screen which takes the screenshot of the entire screen.

Shift+Click for Yes to All and No to All: If you have a lot of dialog boxes asking yes and no question, just shift+click Yes or No on one to yes all or no all.

Ctrl+C on an error dialog box to copy its contents: Suppose your computer is giving an error message and you want to copy its contents to send to the support guy, what do you do? Just press Ctrl+C while the dialog box is highlighted and its contents will be copied to your clipboard.

Ctrl+T: This keyboard shortcut opens a new tab in internet browsers.

Ctrl+Shift+T: Reopens the last closed tab.

Ctrl+Shift+N: This shortcut opens a new incognito window in Google Chrome.

Ctrl+Shift+P: Opens a new private window in Mozilla Firefox.

Alt+Enter after writing the domain name in the address bar of your browser to insert .com automatically.

Shift+Enter inserts .net domain name extension.

Ctrl+W: This shortcut closes the current tab in your browser quickly.

Ctrl+Backspace: This shortcut deletes the last word you have typed. It is useful in case you typed in a wrong word and want to delete it quickly.

Ctrl+Left or Right Arrow key: This shortcut allows you to move the cursor one word at a time instead of the default one character at a time.

Ctrl++: This shortcut allows you to zoom in web pages in web browsers. Useful when text on a web page is too small to read properly. Ctrl+Scroll wheel can also zoom in documents, file thumbnails and icons in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Ctrl+-: This shortcut does the reverse of the previous shortcut.

Ctrl+0: Reset the webpage's zoom.

Windows key+M: Minimizes all the open windows.

Ctrl+L: This shortcut allows you to quickly jump to the address bar of your web browser.

Windows key+Pause/Break: Quickly open the system properties dialog box. 

Ctrl+Shift+Delete: This shortcut opens the option to delete your browser's history, cookies, cache and other details that it stores while you browse the internet. This shortcut is extremely useful for the privacy conscious.

Windows Key+L: This shortcut locks your computer.

Ctrl+H: makes the history appear.

CTRL+B: Bold CTRL+U: Underline CTRL+I: Italic.

Alt+Select: This shortcut allows you to select rectangular blocks of text in Word processors, something that is not possible with simple select.

F2: Allows you to rename the selected file.

Holding Shift while inserting a device with removable storage prevents automatic run.

Ctrl+F: This keyboard shortcut opens the Find option in any program.

Ctrl+S: If you are working on a software and want to quickly save your progress, this shortcut will come in handy.

Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End: Useful for quickly going to the top and bottom of a page.

Ctrl+P: Useful for printing the current page.

Space Bar: While viewing a web page in a browser, pressing space bar moves the page down.

Alt+Tab: Useful for quickly cycling between running applications. Press along with Shift to cycle backwards.

Ctrl+Tab: Cycle between tabs in your browser.

Ctrl+F5: Clears the cache and refreshes the current tab.

Shift+Right click: Open alternate right click options.

Alt+Double click: Open the file's properties. Alt+Enter can also be used for this.