Productivity Cheat Sheet 6: PowerPoint - 2

Here’s some essential elixir for all boardroom bosses, marketing mavens, sales smoothies, and wannabe honchos. Ladies and gentlemen, Episode 2 of our quicker-than-greased-lightening keyboard shortcuts for the world’s most ubiquitous presentation gig Microsoft PowerPower.

TEXT FORMATTING
Ctrl + Shift + F: Changes Font (Use up/down arrow keys, click Enter when done)
Ctrl + Shift + P: Change Point Size (Use up/down arrow keys, click Enter when done)
Ctrl + Shift + >: Increase Font Size
Ctrl + Shift + <: Decrease Font Size
Ctrl + B: Bold
Ctrl + U: Underline
Ctrl + I: Italic
Alt + Ctrl + Shift + >: Superscript
Alt + Ctrl + Shift + <: Subscript
Ctrl + Shift+Z: Changes to plain text
F7: Checks spelling
Ctrl + E: Centres paragraph
Ctrl + J: Justifies paragraph
Ctrl + L: Left-aligns paragraph
Ctrl + R: Right-aligns paragraph
Shift + F3: Changes case; toggles selection through lower case, upper case, initial caps with each press of this key-combo
Ctrl + K: Creates hyperlink

DELETING AND COPYING
Backspace: Deletes character to the left
Ctrl + Backspace: Deletes word to the left
Delete: Deletes character to the right
Ctrl + Delete: Deletes word to the right
Ctrl + X: Cuts
Ctrl + C: Copies
Ctrl + V: Pastes
Ctrl + Z: Undoes
Ctrl + Drag: Creates a copy of the text

TEXT BLOCK NAVIGATION
Left Arrow: Goes one character left
Right Arrow: Goes one character right
Up Arrow: Goes one line Up
Down Arrow: Goes one line Down
Ctrl + Left Arrow: Goes one word left
Ctrl + Right Arrow: Goes one word right
End: Goes to end of line
Home: Goes to beginning of line
Ctrl + Up Arrow: Goes one paragraph up
Ctrl + Down Arrow: Goes one paragraph down
Ctrl + End: Goes to end of text block
Ctrl + Home: Goes to start of text block

OBJECT NAVIGATION
Tab: Goes to previous object
Shift + Tab: Goes to next object
Ctrl + A: Selects all objects
Ctrl + Select and Drag: Drag and drop copy
Ctrl + D: Creates a duplicate object
Ctrl + D, move duplicate to desired location, repeat Ctrl + D to create more copies: Creates duplicates with same offset as first duplicate