The Mighty Control Key

  • Hold down the CTRL key while clicking the slide show view button when you are editing a slide show. This will open a preview window so you can see that slide in slide show mode.
  • Hold down the CTRL key while dragging an existing Guide to create a new guide.
  • Hold down the CTRL key while turning the wheel on the mouse to zoom in and out of the slide
  • Hold down the CTRL key plus the HOME key to go to the first slide
  • Hold down the CTRL key plus the END key to go to the last slide in your presentation
  • CTRL + A (on the Slides tab) to select all objects
  • CTRL + A (in slide sorter view) to select all slides
  • CTRL + A (on the Outline tab) to select all text in your slide show
  • CTRL + B to apply bold formatting
  • CTRL + C to copy the selected object
  • CTRL + D to duplicate (make a copy of) the selected slide
  • CTRL + E to center a paragraph
  • CTRL + F to find text
  • CTRL + G to open the grids and guidelines dialog box
  • CTRL + H to replace text
  • CTRL + I to apply italic formatting
  • CTRL + J to justify a paragraph (full alignment)
  • CTRL + K to insert a hyperlink
  • CTRL + L to left align a paragraph
  • CTRL + M to insert a new slide
  • CTRL + N to create a new presentation
  • CTRL + O to open an existing presentation
  • CTRL + P to print a presentation
  • CTRL + Q to quit PowerPoint
  • CTRL + R to right align a paragraph
  • CTRL + S to save a presentation
  • CTRL + T to change the formatting of characters between sentence, lowercase, and uppercase
  • CTRL + U to apply underline formatting
  • CTRL + V to paste a cut or copied object
  • CTRL + W to close a presentation
  • CTRL + X to cut a selected objected
  • CTRL + Y to redo or repeat an action
  • CTRL + Z to undo the last action
  • CTRL + Equal Sign to apply subscript formatting
  • CTRL + SHIFT + Plus Sign to apply superscript formatting
  • CTRL + Space Bar to remove subscript and superscript