Keyboard shortcuts for use while delivering a sales presentation in PowerPoint 2010

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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jfmessier
PowerPoint and sales: How to get the best out of the new technologies and make your presentations great. My approach to great sales presentations is based on three-pronged experience:
- 30 years of experience in and passion for sales: 16 years of B2B, retail, and pharmaceutical laboratory sales, and 14 years of consulting at Mercuri International, where I have trained some 5,000 sales representatives, as well as over 500 sales management executives.
- My experience with new technologies: As New Technologies Director for Mercuri International, I now travel to some 25 countries to implement the best that technology has to offer in terms of sales development.
- The example of the world’s best communicators:
Thanks to all those whose publications and presentations inspire me a little more each day:
- Garr Reynolds: The master of modern communication, he has influenced me the most. An American living in Japan, he is an internationally-renowned communications expert and the creator of the most popular website on presentation design, presentationzen.com. He has also authored a book of the same name, as well as several other books.
- Steve Jobs: It’s not his engineering skills that make him so indispensable for Apple … it’s his extraordinary ability to sell its products. Steve Jobs is one of the most captivating salesmen in the world.
- Nancy Duarte heads Duarte Design, one of the largest design and woman owned firms in Silicon Valley. Her client list includes the largest Fortune-500 companies, such as Adobe, Cisco, Google and Hewlett-Packard.
- Carmine Gallo is a communications coach who is passionate about the techniques Steve Jobs uses to captivate his audience.
- Phil Waknell: Philippe Waknell is the founding co-director of Paris-based Ideas on Stage, one of France’s best presentation companies. His “Phil presents” blog is a marvel of inspiration, originality and simplicity.
- Guy Kawasaki is an American born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ex-Apple, he was one of the first directors of marketing at Apple, where his mission was to create a community of passionate users and defenders of the Apple brand.
- Seth Godin was vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo. He has written twelve books that have been translated into over 30 languages. All were best sellers. American Way Magazine calls him “America’s Greatest Marketer”.
- Olivia Mitchell is a presentation trainer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Her blog “Speaking about presenting” is a rich resource.
- Hans Rosling, a professor of international health at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, is the Zen master of presenting statistics when it comes to making sense and telling a story.
- Doctor John Medina is a molecular biologist focused on the genes involved in brain development. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, which decodes how the brain processes and assimilates information.
- John Sweller is an Australian psychologist known for formulating the theory of cognitive load. He has authored over 80 scientific publications, mainly on cognitive factors, with specific emphasis on the implications of working memory limitations.
2 comments
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.
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I think ‘Shift-F5’ starts the slideshow from the current slide (not Ctrl-Shift-F5 as mentionned in your comment 😉 All the best