Did you know that when giving a presentation you can use Keyboard shortcuts?
These Shortcuts are key to display a blank black or white slide, or to return to the presentation from a blank black or white slide, to create or erase on screen annotations and much more!
As we have shown in our previous blog entries series “PowerPoint Shortcuts”, it is important to know that there are short codes that will make your life easier when presenting lectures or conferences, bringing them to another level. These Shortcuts will make a big difference.
Well that’s all there is to it! The following shortcuts will facilitate your interaction with the audience. Let’s go through the shortcuts list. We hope you find them to be useful and take them to practice! (These short cuts work for computers whose default language is English, for other languages they may be different).
Browse Web presentations in Internet Explorer 4.0 or later |
This is the shortcut you need |
Move forward through the hyperlinks in a Web presentation, the Address bar, and the Links bar. | TAB |
Move back through the hyperlinks in a Web presentation, the Address bar, and the Links bar. | SHIFT+TAB |
Perform the “mouse click” behavior of the selected hyperlink. | ENTER |
Go to the next slide. | SPACEBAR |
To use the Selection pane feature |
This is the shortcut you need |
To launch the Selection pane, press | Alt, then H, then S, then L, and then P. |
Cycle the focus through the different panes. | F6 |
Display the context menu. | SHIFT+F10 |
Move the focus to a single item or group. | UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW |
Move the focus from an item in a group to its parent group. | LEFT ARROW |
Move the focus from a group to the first item in that group. | RIGHT ARROW |
Expand a focused group and all its child groups. | * (on numeric keypad only) |
Expand a focused group. | + (on numeric keypad only) |
Collapse a focused group. | – (on numeric keypad only) |
Move the focus to an item and select it. | SHIFT+UP ARROW or SHIFT+DOWN ARROW |
Select a focused item. | SPACEBAR or ENTER |
Cancel selection of a focused item. | SHIFT+SPACEBAR or SHIFT+ENTER |
Move a selected item forward. | CTRL+SHIFT+F |
Move a selected item backward. | CTRL+SHIFT+B |
Show or hide a focused item. | CTRL+SHIFT+S |
Rename a focused item. | F2 |
Switch the keyboard focus within the Selection pane between tree view and the Show All and Hide All buttons. | TAB or SHIFT+TAB |
Collapse all groups (The focus must be in the tree view of the Selection pane to use this shortcut). | ALT+SHIFT+1 |
Expand all groups. | ALT+SHIFT+9 |