Keyboard shortcuts are the favorite tool of experienced users.
They allow you to save a lot of time especially when the number of operations to be carried out on a
specific slide is substantial.
The universal windows shortcuts can be applied in PowerPoint as well.
For example if you would like to copy an item you can use control and see while you can paste it with
control and V the shortcut for cutting an item is control and X after we've cut an item we can use control
and V and paste it into its new position we can use these commands for text as well
please take some time going through the document that comes after this lesson.
It is a list of some of the most popular keyboard shortcuts that are used in PowerPoint we can easily
find many keyboard shortcuts by using the alt key by pressing alt without holding we can activate the
tabs for the PowerPoint ribbon.
Then we can click the letter corresponding to the tab that we want to open.
For example I'll click N and the Insert tab would open.
Here it is within the tab.
We continue to see the letters for each of the buttons.
If we want to insert a picture we can just press P.
And this brings up the insert picture dialog box.
So in general we can say that most commands involving ult are shortcuts to the commands in the main
tabs of the PowerPoint ribbon.
There is one slight complication though compared to Excel PowerPoint needs more steps in order to perform
a given action.
Most of the time you need to work with four or five letter combinations in order to carry out the operation
that you require.
Therefore you need to practice the combinations a lot in order to memorize these longer shortcuts in
the list with shortcuts that is provided.
After this lesson you will find a number of shortcuts which start with the control key and are much
simpler to memorize.
Later in this course we will show a good alternative which is often preferred by some PowerPoint users.
This will do it for now.
Thank you for watching.