"14 Microsoft PowerPoint Shortcut Keys for Applying Formatting"

Microsoft PowerPoint shortcut keys can be a great way to perform formatting either to the text or objects in your slides. You can do much (sometimes all) of your formatting work from the keyboard.

How fast you can do it depend to your ability but generally you can do some formatting faster than using the mouse if you can master the shortcut skills. Let's see some of the available formatting keys:

1.) Select the Font drop-down list on the Formatting toolbar
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[F]

2.) Select the Font Size drop-down list on the Formatting toolbar
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[P]

3.) Increase the font size
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[>]

4.) Decrease the font size
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[<]

5.) Display the Font dialog box
[Ctrl]+[T]

6.) Cycle the case of the selection
[Shift]+[F3]

7.) Toggle subscript
[Ctrl]+[=]

8.) Toggle superscript
[Ctrl]+[+]

9.) Reset the formatting of the current paragraph or selection
[Ctrl]+[Spacebar]

10.) Copy the formatting of the selection
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[C]

11.) Apply the copied formatting to the selection
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[V]

12.) Apply justified alignment to the paragraph
[Ctrl]+[J]

13.) Group the selected objects
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[G]

14.) Ungroup the selected group
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[H]

Note: In most cases, you need to highlight the font/object before applying the keyboard shortcuts.

I strongly recommend you go to try those shortcut keys as it really can boost your time when doing the slide formatting. If you wish to get more free Microsoft PowerPoint shortcut keys, click on any links below:

• Microsoft PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts - Function Keys
• PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts - Quick Shortcuts Guide for Working on Outlines
• 9 Simple Shortcut Keys for Creating a Presentation and Its Contents
• Top 26 Powerful Microsoft PowerPoint Shortcut Keys for Running a Slide Show

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• Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts - Function Keys
• Microsoft Excel Keyboard Shortcuts - Function Keys
• Microsoft Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts - Function Keys

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