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

Google Chrome Tricks And Shortcuts

1. Pin Tab

When you pin a tab, it minimizes the tab to display only the icon. When you have several tabs opened, this feature is very helpful, as the Tab title displays only the icon and takes only little real estate.

Before pinning:

After pinning 1st two tabs:

2. Display Home Button

By default, chrome doesn’t display the ‘Home’ button in the toolbar.

Click on the ‘Wrench Icon’ on the right-hand corner of the browser to get to the “Customize” option for Chrome browser -> Preferences (or Options) -> Select the check-box for “Show home button in toolbar”

This will now display the ‘Home’ button in front of the URL field. Click this button to go to your home page quickly.

3. Omnibox

The URL address bar (also called as Omnibox in Chrome) in the Chrome browser is not only to enter your URL. Just type the keyword you want to search and press enter, which will perform a google search.

You can also perform calculations or conversions directly in the Omnibox. Try typing any one of the following in the URL address bar and press enter to see the results yourself.

7 + 200
7 * 200
1 lb in kg
2 miles in km

4. incognito – Secret Mode

Incognito mode is for private browsing, where Chrome doesn’t record your browsing history, download hisotry. Any cookies that are stored during the incognito mode is deleted when you close the browser.

You can launch incognito by pressing Ctrl + Shift + N, (or) Settings -> New incognito Window, (or) right mouse-click on a link from a regular Chrome session, and select “open link in incognito window”.

One of the practical use for this mode (apart from private browsing) is to login to the same site using two accounts.

For example, if you have two gmail accounts, login using the first account in your regular Chrome browser, and login using the second account in your Incognito mode on your Chrome browser. This way, you can be logged in to two gmail accounts at the same time on Chrome browser.

5. Reopen Recently Closed tab

If you’ve closed a tab by mistake, you can open it by pressing Ctrl + Shift + T, (or) right mouse-click on the empty area in the title-bar -> and select “Reopen closed tab” as shown below.

6. Chrome:// commands

There are various about command that you can type in the address bar.

chrome://histograms
chrome://memory
chrome://cache
chrome://dns
etc.

Read more: 12 Most Useful Google Chrome Browser chrome:// Commands

7. Task Manager

Task manager displays the memory and CPU usage of the Chrome browser, broken down by each and every Tab. If you have multiple Tabs open, and when your system is slow, you can use task manager to identify which Tab is causing the issue.

Right click on empty space in the title bar and select “Task manager”, (or) Press Shift + escape key to launch it as shown below.

8. Change Search Engine in the Omnibar

Type “amazon” in the address bar AND press “Tab”, which will change the address bar to “Search amazon.com:”, any keyword you type after this will be searched in the amazon.com and it will take you to amazon.com website.

You can also change the default search engine. Right click on the address bar -> and select “Edit search engine”. From here you can choose other search engines.

9. Open a link at a specific Tab Location

As you already know, when you right click on a link, and say “Open link in a new tab”, it opens it as a new tab (next to the current open tab).

However, if you want the link to be opened at a specific tab location, you can hold the link, drag it and drop it as a specific tab location. You’ll see a small arrow when you drag and drop the link. In the following example, I tried to drop the link at 2nd tab location.

10. Carry your Chrome Settings with You

If you are using multiple computers (at home, at work, etc.), you don’t need to worry about trying to setup the Chrome browser in the same way on all the computers you use. Instead, setup your bookmarks, extensions, themes, settings, etc, on your Chrome browser on one computer, and select “Sign in to Chrome” from the settings menu as shown below.

This will ask you to enter your google username and password. This will save all your chrome settings on your google account. Next time when you sign-up from another machine, all your chrome settings will be visible on the new system. If you make any changes to your chrome settings on this new system, it will be available on your other computers too. Use this feature only on the systems which you trust and not on public computers.

11. Drag and Drop Downloaded file

Once a file is downloaded, you can just drag and drop the file (from the Chrome download window) to your Windows explore, or any other file browser that you are using on your system.

12. History

Press Ctrl-H, or go to Customize -> History, to launch the history window. From here you can search for a specific website from your history, delete all your history, or delete only selected items from your history.

13. Create a Shortcut of the Current Tab

If you like to create a shortcut to the website that you are currently viewing, go to Customize -> Tools -> Create application shortcuts. This will ask you where you like to create the shortcut for this website, as shown below.

Once you create a application shortcut, next time when you click on it to open it, it will open this site in a Chrome browser without any tabs, url location bar, etc.

14. Navigate Between Tabs Quickly

• Use Ctrl+Tab to navigate Tabs one by one
• Press Ctrl-1 to go to 1st Tab
• Press Ctrl-2 to go to 2nd Tab
• ..
• Press Ctrl-9 to switch to the last Tab

15. Resize TextArea

You can also resize a textarea that you see on any website. Please note that you can resize only the textarea and not a textbox. At the bottom right corner of the textarea, you’ll see two slanted lines, use your mouse, hold this, and drag it to resize the textarea on the screen.

You can try this yourself on the comment box (which is a textarea) located at the bottom of this page.

16. Detach a tab

If you have multiple Tabs opened, and like to detach a single tab as a separate Chrome instance, just drag the tab anywhere outside the browser, which will detach the tab and run it in a separate Chrome browser window.

17. Highlight a Text and Search

When you are browsing a website, if you come across some word that you are not familiar with and like to perform a google search on it, just double-click on the text to high-light it, right mouse-click, and select “Search google for”, which will open a new Tab and search for the selected text. This saves some time.

18. Autofill

You can use the autofill option to enter one or more addresses that you can use to fill-up any web forms. You can also use this feature to store one or more credit card information that can be pre-populated on web forms. Don’t use this feature on a computer that you don’t trust.

Go to settings -> Options -> Personal Stuff -> Click on the check-box “Enable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click” -> Click on Manager autofill settings -> Click on ‘Add new Address’ and enter the information.

19. Google Cloud Print

Go to Settings -> Options -> Under the Hood -> click on sign into “Google Cloud Print”.

Once you setup your printer using Google cloud print, you can print to it from anywhere. i.e You can print to it from your mobile, other PC at work, or any other system that is connected to the internet.

20. Google Chrome Browser Shortcuts

The following are some useful shortcuts:

• Alt+F – Open the wrench menu (i.e chrome settings menu)
• Ctrl+J – Go to downloads window
• Ctrl+H – Go to history window
• Ctrl+Tab – Navigate Tabs
• Alt+Home – Go to home page
• Ctrl+U – View source code of the current page
• Ctrl+K – To search quickly in the address bar
• Ctrl+L – Highlights the URL in the address bar (use this to copy/paste the URL quickly)
• Ctrl+N – Open a new Chrome browser window
• Ctrl+Shift+N – Open a new incognito window (for private browsing)
• Ctrl+Shift+B – Toggle bookmark display
• Ctrl+W – Close the current Tab
• Alt+Left Arrow – Go to the previous page from your history
• Alt+Right Arrow – Go to the next page from your history
• Space bar – Scroll down the current web page