First, find the picture file on your PC using File Explorer. Don’t open it, just press Control + C. In Powerpoint, Tab to the relevant placeholder and press Control + V. Your picture will be placed in the centre of … Read More
When adding text and images to slides, the best layout is the Two Content layout. This layout includes a Title placeholder, and two Content placeholders side by side, underneath the Title placeholder. To insert a Two Content layout slide, press … Read More
If you need to change something on your slides, you can use Find and Replace feature. Press Control + F and type in the text you are trying to find. Press Enter to go to the next instance of that … Read More
You can create links within your presentation in Powerpoint. These can be links to Website, a file or a slide in the same presentation. Your link text does not need to be a complicated URL or file path. You can … Read More
By default, the font on Powerpoint slides is Calibri. You can change the font by pressing Control + Shift + F. The font can be changed in this way for a whole placeholder (Title, Subtitle, Content, etc) or it can be … Read More
By default, when you add text into a Content placeholder on a slide, it is a bulleted list. You can stop bullets by pressing Backspace at the beginning of a line. To create a numbered list as you type, press 1 followed … Read More
Powerpoint is the presentation application of the Microsoft Office suite. We are using the latest Office 365 version of Powerpoint, but these shortcuts will work in pretty much all versions. Just a recap on how to edit placeholders on a … Read More
To format text on the slides, you can use some of the usual shortcuts that we know and love… Press Control + B for bold text. Press Control + I for italics. Press Control + U to underline. And to change the size of the text, … Read More
Press F6 to go to the Slide Thumbnails area. Pressing F6 cycles around the different parts of the Powerpoint window. Once you are in the Slide Thumbnails area, use the Up and Down Arrows to find the slide you want to move. Press Control + Up Arrow to … Read More
To delete a slide, press F6 to go to the Slide Thumbnails area (pressing F6 cycles around the different parts of the Powerpoint window). Once you are in the Slide Thumbnails area, use the Up and Down Arrows to find the slide you want … Read More