Alt + E

Open the Edit drop-down menu

Alt + F

Open the File drop-down menu

Alt + H

Open the Help drop-down menu

Alt + I

Open the Insert drop-down menu

Alt + N

Insert a new slide (Formatting toolbar must be visible)

Alt + O

Open the Format drop-down menu

Alt + R

Open the Draw drop-down menu (Drawing toolbar must be visible)

Alt + S

Open the Slide Design window in the Task Pane

Alt + T

Open the Tools drop-down menu

Alt + U

Open the AutoShapes drop-down menu (Drawing toolbar must be visible)

Alt + V

Open the View drop-down menu

Alt + W

Open the Window drop-down menu

Ctrl + A

Select all

Ctrl + B

Bold text

Ctrl + C

Ctrl + D

Ctrl + E

Center align text

Ctrl + F

Ctrl + G

Change Grid and Guides settings

Ctrl + I

Italicize text

Ctrl + J

Justify text

Ctrl + K

Insert a hyperlink

Ctrl + L

Left align text

Ctrl + M

New slide

Ctrl + O

Ctrl + P

Print

Ctrl + Q

Close PowerPoint

Ctrl + R

Right align text

Ctrl + S

Save

Ctrl + T

Format Fonts

Ctrl + U

Underline text

Ctrl + V

Paste

Ctrl + W

Close presentation

Ctrl + X

Ctrl + Y

Redo last action

Ctrl + Z

Undo last action

Ctrl + = (equal sign)

Subscript formatting

Delete word to the cursor's left

Ctrl + End

Move to the end

Ctrl + Home

Move to the beginning

Ctrl + F1

Show/Hide the Task Pane

Ctrl + Shift + + (plus sign)

Superscript formatting

Ctrl + Shift + >

Increase the font size

Ctrl + Shift + <

Decrease the font size

Ctrl + Shift + C

Copy formats

Ctrl + Shift + F

Change the font

Ctrl + Shift + P

Change the font size

Ctrl + Shift + V

Past formats

Ctrl + Shift + Tab

Switch between Outline and Slides pane in normal view

Shift + F3

Change the case of text

Shift + F7

Thesaurus

Shift + F9

Show/Hide grid lines

F1

Open PowerPoint Help

Move to next pane

F5

View slide show

Alt + F4

Close PowerPoint

Alt + F9

Show/Hide guide lines