HERE ARE SOME important keyboard shortcuts to know while your PowerPoint presentation is running in full screen mode (i.e. slideshow mode):
- Start a presentation from the beginning: F5
- Go to slide number: number + enter
- Stop or restart an automatic presentation: S
- End a presentation: ESC or HYPEN
- Erase on-screen annotations: E
- Go to the next slide, if the next slide is hidden: H
- Return to the first slide: 1+ENTER
- Display the shortcut menu: SHIFT+F10
- Perform the “mouse click” behavior of the selected hyperlink: ENTER while a hyperlink is selected
For those of you who are using the PowerPoint equivalent in Open Office (i.e. Impress) some of these keyboard shortcuts may work while some may not.† In the case of the latter there are usually equivalents.† But I am sure you can figure those out.
There are more of these PowerPoint tips and pointers where they came from, which is an article that I found in CIO.com.† I donít actually endorse some of the tips (such as the Design Tips) for they may make your presentation amateurish and not very professional looking.† Of course it all depends on the context of your presentation.† If you are preparing a presentation for a birthday party then some of those tips may work wonders for you. #
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>Boogie: That’s a great PowerPoint tip. I think it also qualifies as a trick.
I used to insert a trick slide that is meant to stir the audience, things like “VIRUS ALERT! YOUR COMPUTER WILL CRASH IN 10 SECONDS” in blinking bold red (on black) letters, or a provocative photo, or a trivia question, and so on.
Hi Bong,
Thanks for these Powerpoint tips. I also have one that I always share with my students and seminar participants. When I want to emphasize a point, I would press something on the keyboard and the presentation would go blank and I would ask them, “Do you know what I pressed?” In more than 5 years than I’ve been doing this, it’s only recently that someone in the room would know. And then i would tell them that I pressed the “B” key. Then I would press it again to bring the slide back. I would tell them, “You know, when you’re presenting, sometimes you’d like to emphasize a point and get people’s attention but more often than not, if you have a Powerpoint going, people would still have their eyes on the slides and not on you. So you press ‘B’ for ‘black’,” and the screen would go blank, “then press ‘B’ again for ‘balik’.” And almost everyone in the room would go “Owwww….!!!” Then I would go on and say “You can also press ‘W’ for ‘white’,” and the screen would go white “but that would change to screen to a bright white and it would still be distracting. So ‘B’ is better.”
You can also press ‘G’ to turn the screen ‘green’ … hindi, joke na yon.
Of course, that feature is in the Powerpoint manuals and help files but it just goes to show that people really rarely read manuals.
Cheers,
Boogie