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Microsoft PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts

Slide editing shortcuts, with slideshow controls kept separate.

46 shortcuts Windows checked September 11, 2026

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This app has a Windows catalog in Shortivo. No other operating system is published for it yet.

Everything Clipboard Comments and review Editing Files and printing Navigation Presenting Selection System
Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Start a presentation file Desktop application Windows CtrlN Source
Add another slide Editing view Windows CtrlM Source
Clone the selected slide Select its thumbnail Windows CtrlShiftD Source
Open text font settings Selected text Windows CtrlT Source
Attach a hyperlink Selected text or object Windows CtrlK Source
Add a review comment Editing view Windows CtrlAltM Source
Combine selected objects At least two selected objects Windows CtrlG Source
Separate a grouped object Select the group Windows CtrlShiftG Source
Show the object selection panel Selection pane Windows AltF10 Source
Fit the slide in view Editing view Windows CtrlAltO Source
Copy selection Selection Windows CtrlC Source
Cut selection Selection Windows CtrlX Source
Paste clipboard Destination Windows CtrlV Source
Undo change Editor Windows CtrlZ Source
Redo change Editor Windows CtrlY Source
Open presentation File Windows CtrlO Source
Save presentation File Windows CtrlS Source
Save As File Windows CtrlShiftS Source
Print File Windows CtrlP Source
Bold Selected text Windows CtrlB Source
Next slide Editor Windows Page Down Source
Previous slide Editor Windows Page Up Source
Duplicate objects Selected objects Windows CtrlD Source
Copy formatting Selected text or object Windows CtrlShiftC Source
Paste formatting Selected text or object Windows CtrlShiftV Source
Copy animation Animation painter Windows AltShiftC Source
Paste animation Animation painter Windows AltShiftV Source
Paste Special Clipboard Windows CtrlAltV Source
Select objects Slide canvas Windows CtrlA Source
Regroup objects Previously grouped Windows CtrlShiftJ Source

About Microsoft PowerPoint and its shortcuts

PowerPoint splits cleanly into two modes, and so do its shortcuts. While you are building a deck you work with slides, objects, alignment and text. While you are presenting, the keyboard becomes the remote control for moving through slides, blanking the screen and reaching the presenter view. The second set is small, worth memorising, and useful in a room where you cannot look down.

Shortivo publishes the Windows list for PowerPoint. The presenting controls in particular differ on Mac and in PowerPoint for the web, so treat these as the desktop Windows set rather than as universal ones until the Mac list is checked and added.

Where the Microsoft PowerPoint keys came from

Read from 2 documentation pages published by the makers of Microsoft PowerPoint. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Microsoft PowerPoint, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task