All the Best PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts (That save time)

Computer Bits Daily
4 min readJan 19, 2021

What does Ctrl + m do in power point? How to open powerpoint using command prompt? Do you like to take another step in
Microsoft power point toward excellence?
If answer is YES,

Then, here is the number of different PowerPoint(ppt) keyboard shortcuts, to help you work a little quicker and more effectively. I have put, all the best PowerPoint shortcuts list for you. These PowerPoint shortcuts key will help you to speed up editing, creating powerpoint and help you to stand out as an experienced presenter.

The list of content what we learn today — Read till the end

  • Shortcut to open powerpoint.
  • The keyboard Shortcut to create power point presentation(ppt) impressive, faster and more conveniently, so don’t miss any single shortcut.
  • Some Mouse-Keyboard Shortcuts to help you speed up editing powerpoint presentation(ppt) .
  • This keyboard Shortcut will help you to look like an experienced presenter. (Will surely help you, at the time of presentation)

What is the shortcut key?
It’s a combination of keys from the keyboard for any task, like copying, pasting, cut, etc… Here is the more then these shortcuts, So practice one by one.

How do I use the shortcut key in powerpoint ?
Suppose we have to copy some text or file or object. The shortcut key is “Ctrl + c”.
To do so, you need to select the file, which you want to copy and then press and hold “Ctrl key” and press ‘c’ character from the keyboard, and the file is copied.

Shortcut to open powerpoint

-) How to Open or Run PowerPoint form Run dialogue ?

To open Microsoft PowerPoint using Run dialogue follow this simple steps. (There are many other ways to do this, but we are talking about keyboard So, let’s do with keyboard)

Step 1. Windows key + R (this shortcut will open Run dialogue)

Step 2. Write “powerpnt.exe” or just “powerpnt” in the textbox as shown in image and press enter key. And Microsoft PowerPoint will appear 😊

-) How to Run PowerPoint From a Command Line ?

Step 1: Open Run dialogue window using Window key + R key combination.
Step 2: Type “cmd” in textbox in run dialogue and press enter. It will open command prompt.
Step 3 : Type “start powerpnt” as shown in image. And Press enter will open Power Point.

PowerPoint Shortcut list useful to create impressive presentation

1. To Create a new presentation:
Ctrl + n

2. Which shortcut key is used to Open an existing presentation?
Ctrl + o

3. To Save a presentation ( Bits Pro Tip: Use it after every change you made ):
Ctrl + s

4. What is the shortcut to create a new slide in PowerPoint?
To insert a new slide press: Ctrl + m

5. Which shortcut key combination is used to duplicate the slides?
Select the slide and press Ctrl + d to duplicate it. To Duplicate an object, Just select the object and press Ctrl + d to duplicate it.

6. To Copy and paste formatting (Format Painter feature):
Format Painter feature, which also allows you to copy formatting from one shape to another. To do so, Select the object whose formatting you want to copy and press Ctrl + Shift + c. Then, select the objects that you want to have the same formatting and press Ctrl + Shift + v to paste the formatting. This also works on the slide.

7. Convert any text or number to superscript: To do so select the text/number and Press
Ctrl + Shift and + sign altogether

For example, if you want to write 10 to the power 2 in powerpoint: For that write 102 and select only 2 from number and press Ctrl + Shift and + sign. And you will get 10²

8. To Group and Ungroup objects:
To group objects together, just select the objects and press Ctrl + g. To ungroup, select the object and press Ctrl + Shift + g.

9. To align text: Left, Right, Center
Center alignment, to do so, select the text and press : Ctrl + e
Left alignment, to do so, select the text and press : Ctrl + L
Right alignment, to do so, select the text and press : Ctrl + r

10. To Clear/Remove all formatting from selected text:
Ctrl + Spacebar

Click here For Quiz on PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts (🏆 Challenge!)

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