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Creating a PowerPoint presentation is no small task! It requires juggling all sorts of PowerPoint stuff like charts, tables, pictures, object formatting, text and shapes just to create your slides in the first place. Then there is the delivery of the presentation itself. On top of that, companies, bosses and clients want everything done yesterday.
Although we’ve compiled the ultimate keyboard shortcut list Windows Keyboard Shortcuts 101: The Ultimate Guide Windows Keyboard Shortcuts 101: The Ultimate Guide Keyboard shortcuts can save you hours of time. Master the universal Windows keyboard shortcuts, keyboard tricks for specific programs, and a few other tips to speed up your work. To enable the Control key shortcuts for Office 2016 for Mac, the process is simple, but the labeling is less-helpful than many might wish. To enable the cross-platform shortcuts, Click System Preferences -> Click Keyboard -> Click the Shortcuts tab, and then Click the “All controls” radio button.
For you as an employee (or contractor) that means expectations are rising. Getting more done in less time.
That’s where PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts come to your rescue. To help you out, I’ve pulled together this list of 80 PowerPoint shortcuts you can start using straight away. With a little bit of practice, these PowerPoint shortcuts will seriously cut down your build time, make your slides look more polished and professional and get you to Happy Hour. One of the main reasons to learn your keyboard shortcuts is they eliminate mental stress and anxiety. Studies show that one of the main sources of modern stress and anxiety in the workplace is what researchers call Cognitive Load. The point being that your brain can only make so many decisions a day before it basically shuts down. That’s why high profile leaders like Steve Jobs, Barack Obama and Superman focus on wearing one or two outfits everyday.
It cuts down on the decisions they need to make, allowing them to focus on higher priority tasks. How do keyboard shortcuts help you out here? They eliminate a bunch of micro-decisions and mental hoops your brain otherwise has to process to get a task done. So instead of playing hide-n-seek in the ribbon for your command – let me seewhere was that command again? – your fingers just hit the keys and get the task done.
Decreasing your cognitive load. In that sense, your keyboard shortcuts not only decrease your cognitive load, freeing up your mind for higher priority tasks, they also blast through your otherwise repetitive and annoying tasks for you, getting you to happy hour. If learning your PowerPoint shortcuts was easy, everyone would already have their black belt in PowerPoint, but they don’t. So the very first rule is simply – COMMIT. Here are a few other tips to make learning your PowerPoint shortcuts as easy as possible: 1. Set learning goals Define your goals. If there are 100 keyboard shortcuts you want to learn and you can only learn 2 or 3 a day, break it up.
Don’t worry about the 100, just worry about the 2 or 3 you want to learn that day (or that week). Put your shortcuts to use When you first learn a new keyboard shortcut, the most important thing is to start using it every single time you want to complete that task. A common learning mistake is not consistently using the shortcut right off the bat because it’s not comfortable. To promote a paragraph, hit ALT + SHIFT + Left Arrow. To demote a paragraph, hit ALT + SHIFT + Right Arrow. These List Level Shortcuts are extremely effective when filling in company templates as it properly uses the bullet spacing set on your Slide Master.
This is entirely different than the Promote and Demote paragraph shortcuts. To see how to use these List Level Shortcuts to properly fill in a company PowerPoint template (and see how they are COMPLETELY different than the TAB and SHIFT + TAB shortcuts) see the short YouTube video below.