PowerPoint Shortcuts

To give a presentation, only a few keys are needed during the actual presentation.

1. The presentation (PPT file) can be opened with a simple double-click.
2. F5 starts the presentation with the opening slide.
3. The next slide can be reached by hitting the space-bar, the previous slide with the backspace key.
4. The presentation can be closed with ESC.
5. That eliminates mouse acrobatics during the presentation and allows the presenter to concentrate on the job to be done.

An overview of function keys for the presentation mode can be called up by pressing F5.

By the way, try out the B - function below to black out the PowerPoint screen.

How to Animate Your Presentations

Click here on the help file

How to Edit the Master Slide

Use the slide master to make global changes on all the slides in your presentation. For example, if you want to insert an image that appears on all the slides or change the font color for all slides you would do that on the slide master. Accessing the slide master is a little different in PowerPoint 2007 since the old menus and toolbars no longer exist. Instead, you use the Ribbon, a tabbed grouping of commands/icons/menus related to specific tasks.

To see the slide master, you display master view.

Click on the View tab as shown.

In the "Presentation Views" group, click on the Slide Master button.