Shortcuts & Hacks

Follow this step-by-step written and video tutorial to learn how to view two PowerPoint presentations at the same time on a single monitor.

Discover how to add slide numbers in PowerPoint the right way (so they show up). Also learn advanced PowerPoint slide number troubleshooting techniques.

See how you can speed up one of the most time-consuming parts of creating a PowerPoint presentation is knocking out the framework.

Learn how to align objects BETWEEN your slides using this cool free PowerPoint add-in.

Learn to convert your Word documents (properly) into PowerPoint slides, and avoid the 5 most common mistakes that will trip you and your colleagues up along the way.

Check out our 80 favorite PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts that will seriously cut down your time in PowerPoint and get you to Happy Hour!

While they may seem similar, these two keyboard shortcuts for adding a new slide to your PowerPoint presentation are actually very different.

PowerPoint hyperlinks allow you to jump around within your presentation or open documents outside of your presentation without leaving Slideshow mode.

The Paste Special command is a buried PowerPoint feature that gives you a variety of file format options you can paste information onto your slide as.

I consider the group and ungroup shortcuts MANDITORY for anyone who uses PowerPoint at least 5 hours a week. See the group, ungroup and regroup shortcuts in action here.

Here are 5 common reasons why your keyboard shortcuts might not be working.

If your Function keys (or media keys) aren't working. here is how to fix them.

Here's how to create a double underline in Word, Excel and PowerPoint with a single shortcut (sneaky!)

Check out these 120+ Microsoft PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts that will cut down the time it takes you to build and edit your PowerPoint slides.

Learn how to print your PowerPoint slides with notes as handouts (the way you want) so you can get out of the office and make it to Happy Hour.

Learn how to zoom in on something in PowerPoint without PowerPoint first centering in on your slide.

Animations often take a long time to think through and design. However, you can actually save a lot of time on repetitive animations by using the Animation Painter and its handy shortcut.

Although the duplicate shortcut and copy and paste shortcuts are similar, one of them is significantly better in PowerPoint. Read this article to find out why and how.

Want to build your PowerPoint slides faster and leave the office at a decent hour? Use these top 25 PowerPoint shortcuts to save time building your slides.

Check out the top 25 Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts that save time.

If you need to cross out text in your documents often, you don’t have to do it manually each time, as Word, Excel and PowerPoint all have different sets of keyboard shortcuts you can use to create the strikethrough text effect.

Learn how to strikethrough text in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You'll also learn about the other advanced text settings available to you.

Discover the best ways to select everything in PowerPoint, whether it’s everything on your slide or everything in your presentation… plus some clever hacks you never knew about the Select All command.

See how to superscript and a subscript in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Learn how to password protect your PowerPoint Presentation in two different ways (and learn now to remove a password too).

Learn how to turn your PowerPoint slides into the PDF file format (with or without speaker notes).

Discover how to add, remove, format and present your speaker notes in PowerPoint.

Learn how to reduce your PowerPoint file size with these 6 different PowerPoint compression techniques.

Ready to start your slide show and deliver your presentation? Learn all of the different ways to start a slideshow in PowerPoint, including the presenter view.

Learn how to cite sources for your PowerPoint presentations including how to cite websites, books, YouTube videos, quotes, songs and more.