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If you use PowerPoint at work or at home, keyboard shortcuts can be a great time saver. Here are some little-known keyboard shortcuts I’ve discovered over the last few years while working on the PowerPoint team. These keyboard shortcuts are designed for PowerPoint for Windows. If you are using PowerPoint for Mac, you can still use them if you replace Ctrl with CMD (⌘) unless stated otherwise. I hope you find these keyboard shortcuts as useful as I have!

Draw horizontal or vertical lines

Press and hold the Shift key while inserting lines to make sure they are perfectly horizontal, vertical or at a 45-degree angle.

Keep objects in proportion

Press and hold the Shift key while resizing shapes and other objects to keep their proportions consistent. This is handy if you want to resize a circle without accidentally turning it into an oval.

PowerPoint 2013 and earlier do not support text highlighting yet, although apparently it can render it. Not sure what version that Mac one maps too, but I don't think it's supported. Maybe try creating the highlighting in MS Word and pasting into PPT. How to Highlight Text in a PDF Document. In this Article: Article Summary Using Adobe Reader DC Using Preview on Mac Community Q&A This wikiHow teaches you how to highlight text in a PDF document using Adobe's free Adobe Reader DC app which is available for Mac or PC, or using the Preview app on Mac.

Duplicate an object

Adding a bunch of identical objects? Just select your object and press Ctrl+D to duplicate it. This also works on slides.

Copy and paste formatting

If you want to format an object to look just like another object without reapplying all of the formatting by hand, use the formatting clipboard. Select the object whose formatting you want to copy and press Ctrl+Shift+C. Then, select the objects that you want to have the same formatting and press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the formatting. This also works on the slide thumbnails if you have a slide background or theme that you want to copy from slide to slide.

This keyboard shortcut makes use of the Format Painter feature, which also allows you to copy formatting from one shape to another. The keyboard shortcut is a good one to remember since it packs even more power—once you’ve copied the formatting, you can paste the formatting onto as many shapes as you like without having to copy it again.

Group and ungroup

To group objects together, just select the objects and press Ctrl+G. To ungroup, select the object and press Ctrl+Shift+G. If you’re a Mac user, press CMD+Option+G to group and CMD+Option+Shift+G to ungroup.

Insert a new slide

Press Ctrl+M to insert a new slide after the currently selected slide. For PowerPoint for Mac, the keyboard shortcut is the same; you don’t need to substitute CMD.

Zoom

Press and hold the Ctrl key while using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out in the editor. On a touch device, you can pinch to zoom. For PowerPoint for Mac, this is another one where you don’t have to substitute CMD.

Center or align text

To quickly center text, press Ctrl+E. Not happy with your centered text? To go back to left alignment, press Ctrl+L, or press Ctrl+R to right align the text.

Clear formatting

To remove all formatting from selected text, press Ctrl+Spacebar. This will reset the text back to the default formatting.

PowerPoint content placeholders have logic built in to make sure your text has the right size and formatting to match the rest of your presentation. If you’ve changed the formatting for some text or you have pasted in text that already had formatting on it, you can use the clear formatting shortcut to make the text match the design of the rest of your presentation again.

To clear formatting on PowerPoint for Mac, simply click the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab.

Start Slideshow

Done editing and ready to present? To start a Slideshow from the first slide, just press F5. If you want to start from the current slide, press Shift+F5 instead.

As a bonus, here are a few more keyboard shortcuts you might have forgotten about. Happy editing!

—Lauren Janas, program manager for the PowerPoint team

PowerPoint provides a variety of options to give motion to text. PowerPoint text animation draws viewers’ attention to the key points of your presentation and make viewing experience more fun. You can animate a text object on the slide with an entrance, emphasis, exit or motion path effects. Also there are different options to animate the text box in parts by paragraph or even by letter.

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It will take a few simple steps to apply different animation effects to text and make it visually appealing.

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1. Select a text box you would like to animate by clicking on the frame.
   
2. Go to the tab and choose an animation effect you like.
   
3. To see the whole list of animations, click the button on the tab.
   
4. Now you can configure options for a certain animation. Select animation on the Animation Pane and choose from the drop-down menu.
5. Go to the tab and choose the option: “All at once”, “By word” or “By Letter”. You can also set delay between animations in percentage for the last two start animation types.
   

6. In the tab choose the option for the animation: On click, With Previous or After Previous. You can set in seconds for the chosen animation, choose Duration (fast, medium or slow) and number of .

   Note: iSpring will read infinity value as a 1 because the conversion engine cannot calculate the length of the slide, which is important to proceed. To work around this, set Repeat to any numeric value, e.g. 99, it will imitate a very long repeated action.

   Tip: You can access timing options on the and edit them by moving and arranging different animation tracks.

7. If text contains a bulleted list, you can set up the paragraph level till which animation will go in steps. Go to the tab. Choose by what paragraph level you want to animate your text in the drop-down list.

   For example, on this slide we have 4 paragraphs with nested levels from 1 to 4. If you set text animation By 2nd Level Paragraphs, two of them will be animated in a sequence while the rest of the bullets (the 3rd and the 4th levels) will be animated at once.

   You may notice animation IDs with numbers when you select the text box. Animations with equal numbers will be animated simultaneously.

8. Once all the options are selected, click to close the Animation Effects window. You can preview animations in the Animation Pane. To see the final result, go to the Slide Show tab or press crtl+F5 to start playing the presentation from the current slide.

Now you can apply text animations and iSpring will take care of converting them to both Web formats Flash and HTML5.

WordArt text animation

In PowerPoint you can apply WordArt styles to the text.

Stylized text is converted to a raster image with iSpring, therefore, can’t retain the animation. Still you can apply animation to a WordArt object. To do it, right click on the stylized text, choose and this picture into a slide. Then apply animation to the raster image. Note, that you can’t change text or adjust styles after you attach it as a picture.

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Play around with animations settings yourself! Download the presentation and convert it with iSpring – gain deep understanding of how text animations techniques work.

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