Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

Keyboard Shortcuts
 Creating a New Slide
 Moving within Slides
 Presenting Your Slide Show

Creating a New Slide

You may need to create new slides frequently as you are making your PowerPoint presentation.
This keyboard shortcut can help speed up the process of opening and choosing new slides.

1. With the existing presentation already open, press [Ctrl] + [M]

A new Title and Content slide appears.
2. Press [Alt]
NOTES:
The keyboard navigation shortcuts are activated.
For more information about using shortcuts to navigate the command tabs, refer to Office
2007: Keyboard Shortcuts.
3. Press [H] » [L]
A palette of slide layouts appears.
4. To select the appropriate slide layout, press the [Up], [Down], [Left], or [Right] arrow
keys
5. Press [Enter]
The selected layout appears.

Moving within Slides

Navigating within slides means you will be moving through all the objects within a single slide
using key commands. By using the [Tab] key, you can move from object to object. When you
tab to an object, it is selected and can be formatted it to meet your needs. Objects include such
things as text boxes, images, and AutoShapes.

NOTE: In order to navigate within a slide using the key commands, make sure the desired slide
is selected. You may begin tabbing before any objects are selected or with an object selected. Do
not attempt to tab to an object while your cursor is inserted in a line of text; you will only add a
tab to the line of text.
 Key Command

To move ahead one object within the

[Tab]
slide
To move back one object within the
[Shift] + [Tab]
slide
To start typing within a text box 1. By pressing the [Tab] key, select
appropriate text box
2. Press [Enter]
3. Type the appropriate information

To deselect an object [Esc]

 
Presenting Your Slide Show
Once your presentation is open in Normal view, there are several ways of navigating within the
presentation. Using the keyboard shortcuts can help speed up the process and increase the
accuracy of commands performed between and within the slides.

HINT: You can press [F1] during a slide show to see this list of controls.

Action Control Option

Advance to the next slide
Return to the previous slide
Go to a slide
Black or unblack the screen
White or unwhite the screen
Show or hide the arrow
pointer
End slide show
Erase drawing on-screen
Go to next slide, if it's hidden Press [H]
Rehearse with new timings
Left click, Press [Spacebar], [N], right or down arrows,
[Enter], or [Page Down]
Press [Backspace], [P], left or up arrows, or [Page Up]
Type the slide number, press [Enter]
Press [B] or [ .]
Press [W] or [ ,]
Press [A] or [ =]
Press [Esc], [Ctrl] + [Pause/Break], or [ -]
Press [E]
Press [T]
Rehearse with original Press [O]
timings
Rehearse with mouse-click Press [M]
advance
Return to the first slide 1+ [Enter] or Hold down both mouse buttons for 2
seconds
Change pointer to pen Press [Ctrl] + [P]
Show or hide ink markup Press [Ctrl] + [M]
Change pen to pointer Press [Ctrl] + [A]
Hide pointer and button Press [Ctrl] + [H]
Hide pointer and navigation Press [Ctrl] + [U]
button always after fifteen
seconds of inactivity
Show popup menu or Right mouse click
previous slide
Go to the first or next Press [Tab]
hyperlink on a slide
Go to the last or previous link Press [Shift] + [Tab]
hyperlink on a slide
Perform the "mouse click " Press [Enter] while a hyperlink is selected
behavior of the selected link