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While running a presentation

Navigating

• Stop or restart an automatic slide show by pressing S or PLUS SIGN.
• End a slide show by pressing ESC, CTRL+BREAK, or HYPHEN.
• Go to slide number by pressing number+ENTER.
• Go to the next hidden slide by pressing H.
• Return to the first slide by pressing 1+ENTER (or press both mouse buttons for 2 seconds).

Pausing

• Display a black screen, or return to the slide show from a black screen by pressing B or PERIOD.
• Display a white screen, or return to the slide show from a white screen by pressing W or COMMA.

Rehearsing

• Set new timings while rehearsing by pressing T.
• Use original timings while rehearsing by pressing O.
• Use mouse-click to advance while rehearsing by pressing M.

Annotating

• Erase on-screen annotations by pressing E.
• Show or hide ink markup by pressing CTRL+M.

Working with the pointer during a slide show

• Show or hide the arrow pointer and Slide show toolbar by pressing A or =.
• Hide the pointer and Slide show toolbar immediately by pressing CTRL+H.
• Hide the pointer and Slide show toolbar in 15 seconds by pressing CTRL+U.
• Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to a pen by pressing CTRL+P.
• Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to an arrow by pressing CTRL+A.

Working with animations

• Perform the next animation or advance to the next slide by pressing N, ENTER, PAGE DOWN, RIGHT ARROW, DOWN ARROW, or the SPACEBAR (or click the mouse).
• Perform the previous animation or return to the previous slide by pressing P, PAGE UP, LEFT ARROW, UP ARROW, or BACKSPACE.

Working with hyperlinks

• Go to the first or next hyperlink on a slide by pressing TAB.
• Go to the last or previous hyperlink on a slide by pressing SHIFT+TAB.
• Perform the "mouse click" behavior of the selected hyperlink by pressing ENTER while a hyperlink is selected.
• Perform the "mouse over" behavior of the selected hyperlink by pressing SHIFT+ENTER while a hyperlink is selected.

While editing a presentation

Displaying additional tools

• View the Windows task bar by pressing CTRL+T.
• Display the All Slides dialog box by pressing CTRL+S.
• Display the shortcut menu by pressing SHIFT+F10 (or right-click).
• See a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing F1.

Working with AutoShapes in Normal view

• Copy the formatting style of the currently selected shape by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+C.
• Paste the formatting style of the currently selected shape by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+V.
• Paste only text formatting by selecting only the text in the text box, and then pressing CTRL+SHIFT+V.
• Use the More AutoShapes command (click the AutoShapes button on the Drawing toolbar) to display the Clip Art task pane, where you can search for and insert clip art.
• Quickly convert one AutoShape to another without losing formatting changes by selecting the shape you want to change, clicking the Draw button (on the Drawing toolbar), pointing to Change AutoShape, and then clicking the new AutoShape.