Shapes are the building blocks of whatever you create in PowerPoint. In fact, even a text box that you add to your slide isessentially a shape with a No Fill attribute. Once you getproficient with shapes, you can do so much more. For example, you cancombine multiple shapes to create fancier shapes. However, youneed to start with the very basics, and there's so much to learn even at this foundation level. The first task you need to do is toinsert a shape. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to do this task. To insert a new shape on your PowerPoint slide, follow thesesteps:
- Launch PowerPoint 2016 for Mac and open a blank presentation with a new slide. You canchange the Slide Layout to Blank byselecting the Home tab | Layout | Blank option (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Slide with Blank layout- Now, access the Insert tab of theRibbon, and click the Shapes button to bring up the Shapes drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Shapes drop-down gallery
Figure 3: Shapes button within the Home tab- Within the Shapes drop-down gallery, PowerPoint provides options to choose shapes from several categories such asLines, Rectangles, Basic Shapes, Block Arrows,Stars and Banners, Callouts, etc. Learn more about shape types in ourTypes of Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac tutorial. For now, choose anyShape by clicking on it. Thereafter, use any of these options to place an instance of the selected Shape on your slide:
- i. Click anywhere on the slide to add the Shape in a predefined size (typically 1 inch x 1 inch), as shownin Figure 4.
Figure 4: Click and place a Shape on the slide- ii.Alternatively, click and do not release the primary button on your mouse (or other input device). Continue dragging until you createa large enough shape on your slide, as shown in Figure 5, below.
Figure 5: Draw a shape as large or small as you want- You can similarly insert as many shapes as you want. Save your presentation often.
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104 Shortcuts for Microsoft Power Point 2016 (MacOS/ English)
Delete | Delete one character to the left |
Function+Delete | Delete one character to the right |
⌘+X | Cut selected text or object |
⌘+C | Copy selected text or object |
⌘+V | Paste cut or copied text or object |
⌘+Ctrl+V | Paste special |
⌘+Shift+> | Increase the font size |
⌘+Shift+< | Decrease the font size |
⌘+B | Apply bold formatting |
⌘+U | Apply an underline |
⌘+I | Apply italic formatting |
⌘+E | Center a paragraph |
⌘+J | Justify a paragraph |
⌘+L | Left align a paragraph |
⌘+R | Right align a paragraph |
⌘+Y | Redo the last action |
⌘+Z | Undo the last action |
⌘+T | Open the Format Text dialog box, Font options |
⌘+Option+M | Open the Format Text dialog box, Paragraph options |
Option+Arrow Left | To Move To the beginning of a word or one word to the left |
Option+Arrow Right | To Move One word to the right |
⌘+Arrow Right | To Move To the end of a line |
⌘+Arrow Left | To Move To the beginning of a line |
Option+Arrow Up | To Move To the beginning of a paragraph or up one paragraph |
Option+Arrow Down | To Move Down one paragraph |
⌘+Arrow Up/Arrow Down | To Move To the start or end of all the text in the object you are editing |
Tab | Select the next object |
Shift+Tab | Select the previous object |
⌘+A | Select all objects and all text |
Arrow Keys or ⌘+Arrow Key | Move the selected object in the direction of the arrow |
⌘+Option+G | Group the selected objects |
⌘+Option+Shift+G | Ungroup the selected objects |
⌘+Option+J | Regroup the selected objects |
Option+Arrow Right | Rotate the selected object clockwise |
Option+Arrow Left | Rotate the selected object counterclockwise |
⌘+Shift+1 | Format the selected object |
⌘+D | Duplicate selected objects |
Shift+Arrow Keys | Resize selected objects |
⌘+N | Create a new presentation |
⌘+Shift+P | Create a new presentation with a template from the PowerPoint Presentation gallery |
Ctrl+M or ⌘+Shift+N | Insert a new slide |
⌘+- (Minus Sign) | Zoom out |
⌘++ | Zoom in |
⌘+Shift+D | Make a copy of the selected slide |
⌘+O | Open a presentation |
⌘+W | Close a presentation |
⌘+P | Print a presentation |
⌘+S | Save a presentation |
⌘+Shift+S | Save a presentation with a different name, location, or file format. |
⌘+Q | Quit PowerPoint |
⌘+F | Find text and formatting |
⌘+K | Add a hyperlink to selected text, an image, or an object |
ESC | Cancel a command, such as Save As |
⌘+Z | Undo an action |
⌘+Y | Redo or repeat an action |
⌘+~ | Move through multiple open presentations. |
⌘+Shift+O | Open a recent file |
⌘+1 | Switch to normal view |
⌘+2 | Switch to slide sorter view |
⌘+3 | Switch to notes page view |
⌘+4 | Switch to outline view |
⌘+Shift+Return | Switch to slide show |
⌘+Ctrl+F | Switch to full screen (hide menus) |
Option+Return | Switch to presenter view |
⌘+Option+Ctrl+G | Show or hide guides |
⌘+Option+2 or Shift+(click Slide Sorter View) | Switch to handout master view |
⌘+Option+1 or Shift+(click Normal View) | Switch to slide master view |
⌘+Option+3 | Switch to notes master view |
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Shift+Arrow Right | To Select One character to the right |
Shift+Arrow Left | To Select One character to the left |
Shift+Arrow Up | To Select From the insertion point to the same point one line up |
Shift+Arrow Down | To Select From the insertion point to the same point one line down |
⌘+Shift+Arrow Left | To Select All text to the start of the line |
⌘+Shift+Arrow Right | To Select All text to the end of the line |
Shift+Option+Arrow Down | To Select From the insertion point to the end of the paragraph |
Shift+Option+Arrow Up | To Select From the insertion point to the beginning of the paragraph |
N , Page Down , Arrow Right , Arrow Down , or the SPACEBAR (or click the mouse button) | Perform the next animation or advance to the next slide |
P , Page Up , Arrow Left , Arrow Up , or Delete | Return to the previous animation or return to the previous slide |
The number of the slide that you want to view, and then press Return | Go to slide number |
B or . | Display a black screen, or return to the slide show from a black screen |
W or , | Display a white screen, or return to the slide show from a white screen |
⌘+Shift+ Return | Play slide show from the first slide |
⌘+Return | Play slide show from the current slide |
ESC or ⌘+. or ⌘+- | End a slide show |
E | Erase on-screen annotations |
H | Go to next hidden slide if the next slide is hidden |
⌘+P | Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to a pen |
⌘+A | Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to an arrow |
Ctrl+H | Hide the pointer on mouse move |
Hold down Ctrl and click the mouse button | Display the contextual menu |
⌘+Option+Ctrl+R | Show Thesaurus entry for a selected word |
⌘+Option+Ctrl+L | Show Smart Lookup entry for a selected word or phrase |
Option+Return | Switch to presenter view |
Tab | Move to the next cell |
Shift+Tab | Move to the preceding cell |
Arrow Down | Move to the next line or row |
Arrow Up | Move to the preceding line or row |
Return | Start a new paragraph in a cell |
Tab at the end of the last row | Add a new row at the bottom of the table |
⌘+W | Close the active window |
Return | Perform the action assigned to a default button in a dialog box |
ESC | Cancel a command and close the dialog box |
⌘+H | Hide the current window |
⌘+M | Minimize the current window |
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9 Comments for 'PowerPoint '
Comment #9 by Pradeep Verma Jul 30, 2013 at 10:10 am Reply
This Shortcut keys are very useful for me.
Thank you
Comment #8 by franbar Jan 16, 2013 at 03:28 am Reply
Perhaps the most handy of all:
While in presentation mode, ? (question mark) will show a list of all shortcuts possible during a presentation.
The big advantage: this will work in any locale and will show the locale dependent shortcuts.
e.g. In German powerpoint you would have to press S (schwartz) to show a black slide whilst in English the shortcut would be B.
Comment #7 by Loren Apr 11, 2012 at 10:10 am Reply
under powerpoint the heading word task is spelled wrong
Reply #1adminApr 11, 2012 at 03:47 pm
thanks, loren. corrected.
Comment #6 by mzavala31 Feb 23, 2012 at 02:41 pm Reply
Does anybody have a list of shortcuts for PowerPoint 2010?
Comment #5 by EJC Feb 2, 2012 at 12:55 pm Reply
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Anyone know the shortcut to go to a particular slide number in edit mode?
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Comment #4 by tereda Dec 13, 2011 at 06:35 am Reply
is this power point shortcut can help students like me?? is this is correct ??
Comment #3 by James Apr 6, 2011 at 03:12 pm Reply
NM. it's alt, h, g, a ... not quite as easy as before, but at least they didn't kill the functionality...
Comment #2 by James Apr 6, 2011 at 03:06 pm Reply
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Does anyone the shortcut to align a selected object on a page? In the older version of ppt it was alt, r, a and then you could select whether to align relative to the slide or align relative to the other selected objects. I just upgraded to 2007 and i can't figure it out, appreciate any help. thanks!
Comment #1 by knd Mar 10, 2011 at 08:36 am Reply
On my PP2007 (winXP) :rnCtrl+Shift+H decreases font sizernctrl+Shift+K increases font size