During your sales presentation your eyes and attention should no longer be captivated by your computer or your mouse, but focused on your customers to captivate them.
Using keyboard shortcuts is an effective to reduce the time that you spend focused on the computer.
You can use the following keyboard shortcuts while you run your presentation in full screen mode.
Slide show shortcuts
| To do this | Press |
| Start a presentation from the beginning. | F5 |
| Start a presentation since the current slide | SHIFT + F5 |
| Perform the previous animation or return to the previous slide. | P, PAGE UP, LEFT ARROW, UP ARROW, or BACKSPACE |
| Perform the next animation or advance to the next slide. | N, ENTER, PAGE DOWN, RIGHT ARROW, DOWN ARROW, or SPACEBAR |
| Go to slide number. | number+ENTER |
| Display a blank black slide, or return to the presentation from a blank black slide. | B or PERIOD |
| Display a blank white slide, or return to the presentation from a blank white slide. | W or COMMA |
| Stop or restart an automatic presentation. | S |
| End a presentation. | ESC or HYPHEN |
| Erase on-screen annotations. | E |
| Go to the next slide, if the next slide is hidden. | H |
| Set new timings while rehearsing. | T |
| Use original timings while rehearsing. | O |
| Use mouse-click to advance while rehearsing. | M |
| Re-record slide narration and timing | R |
| Return to the first slide. | Press and hold Right and Left Mouse buttons for 2 seconds |
| Show or hide the arrow pointer | A or = |
| Change the pointer to a pen. | CTRL+P |
| Change the pointer to an arrow. | CTRL+A |
| Change the pointer to an eraser | CTRL+E |
| Show or hide ink markup | CTRL+M |
| Hide the pointer and navigation button immediately. | CTRL+H |
| Hide the pointer and navigation button in 15 seconds. | CTRL+U |
| View the All Slides dialog box | CTRL+S |
| View the computer task bar | CTRL+T |
| Display the shortcut menu. | SHIFT+F10 |
| Go to the first or next hyperlink on a slide. | TAB |
| Go to the last or previous hyperlink on a slide. | SHIFT+TAB |
| Perform the “mouse click” behavior of the selected hyperlink. | ENTER while a hyperlink is selected |
Media shortcuts during presentation
| To do this | Press |
| Stop media playback | ALT+Q |
| Toggle between play and pause | ALT+P |
| Go to the next bookmark | ALT+END |
| Go to the previous bookmark | ALT+HOME |
| Increase the sound volume | ALT+Up |
| Decrease the sound volume | ALT+Down |
| Seek forward | ALT+SHIFT+PAGE DOWN |
| Seek backward | ALT+SHIFT+PAGE UP |
| Mute the sound | ALT+U |
Tip You can press F1 during your presentation to see a list of controls.
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2 comments
Julian Mag
11/13/2014 at 18:54 (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Very good tips. Thanks for sharing. One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 is CTRL-SHIFT-F5 to start the slideshow from the current slide instead of the beginning of the presentation. This is very useful while rehearsing the presentation and need to edit typos or change things quickly.
One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts ( and we use it a lot at our PowerPoint templates website SlideModel.com ) is the CTRL-G and CTRL-SHIFT-G to Group and Ungroup shapes. Given that most of the PowerPoint templates available in our site are created as editable PowerPoint objects, we use these keyboard shortcuts a lot in order to customize the cartoon characters or presentation diagrams.
jfmessier
02/01/2015 at 22:39 (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I think ‘Shift-F5′ starts the slideshow from the current slide (not Ctrl-Shift-F5 as mentionned in your comment
All the best