10 Must know Keyboard Shortcuts to make a PowerPoint Presentation like a Pro

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Knowing the keyboard shortcuts of any application does improve the efficiency of working. While coming to presentation, not only the content matters but also how it is presented. Here are some of the most used and the ones which you might need while making a presentation that would avoid you from fumbling or wondering how to move between slides.

Last week we saw the keyboard shortcuts to show or display a blank white or black slide while making a presentation. Knowing these additional keyboard shortcuts may end up saving your day while making the presentation through PowerPoint.

Ten must know PowerPoint 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts (May work in the previous versions too)

Begin a presentation from first slide – F5

Next animation or next slide – N, Enter, Page Down, or Spacebar

Previous animation or previous slide – P, Page Up or Backspace

(Note: You can also use the arrow keys to move around the slides)

End the presentation – Escape

Move to the first slide – Home

Move to the last slide – End

Show a white blank slide – W

Show a black blank slide – B

Erase all on-screen annotations – E

If your slides are not arranged properly and you want to move between slides during the presentation at your convenience without going through all the slides in between – Type the slide number and press Enter.

Let me know what is favorite keyboard shortcut while making the presentation?

Another Tip: How to Start the PowerPoint presentation from the Current Slide?

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4 Responses to “10 Must know Keyboard Shortcuts to make a PowerPoint Presentation like a Pro”

  1. Stumbled

  2. Hey, good list. Last one is really useful.

  3. Hi,

    All your blog’s topic were all informative. Thanks for sharing….

    Yes, keyboard shortcut are very important. Just the basic and it helps a lot. :)

  4. [...] Many a times when we give presentations using PowerPoint, we may break in between, show some other stuff from different source say Excel or Word and then we resume our presentation from where we left off. Using a keyboard shortcut for this would an easy way to achieve this. If you give PowerPoint presentations frequently then you should definitely read the 10 must know keyboard shortcuts to make a PowerPoint Presentation like a Pro. [...]

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