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The best PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts

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August 4, 2017 by Laura Foley Leave a Comment

There are a few keyboard shortcuts for PowerPoint that I rely on so often I don’t even know I’m using them. Unless I’m trying to do it on a Mac, in which case they don’t work (sorry, Mac folks!). But if you use PowerPoint on a PC, then you can take advantage of these great keyboard shortcuts to speed up your work and improve your presentations!

Slide Show Shortcuts

Keyboard key: F5

Start Slide Show from beginning

Keyboard Keys: F5 + Shift

Start Slide Show from current slide

Keyboard key: B

Change screen to black in Slide Show view
(so you don’t have to switch the projector on and off)

Working with objects

Keyboard shortcut: CTRL + object

Duplicate objects

Ctrl+Shift+C

Copy object style

Ctrl + Sft + V

Paste object style

CTRL+G

Group selected objects

Ctrl+Shft+G

Ungroup selected objects

Using keyboard shortcuts might take some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it you’ll wonder how you ever did without them!

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