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Navigate in Normal view

Use shortcut menu on Slides tab

In Microsoft® Office PowerPoint®, right-click a slide thumbnail.

Task pane navigation

Click the Other Task Panes arrow on the right of the task pane's title bar, and click another task pane from the menu.
Use the navigation arrows in the top left of the pane to go back and forward to recently used task panes.
Use the links in the Slide Design task pane to open color schemes and animation schemes.

Switch into Slide Show view

On the lower left of the editing window, click the Slide Show button .

To open the show at the start, select slide 1 before you click the button. (See also the keyboard shortcuts, below.)

Keyboard shortcuts

To do this	Press this
Display any shortcut menu	SHIFT+F10 (throughout Microsoft Office)
Insert new slide	Several ways: CTRL+M SHIFT+F10 then N ALT+N Note For ALT+N to work, the New Slide button must be displayed on the Formatting toolbar.
Duplicate selected slide	CTRL+D
Repeat an action	CTRL+Y
Move between Slides tab and Outline tab	CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Turn the current task pane off and on	CTRL+F1
Open the Slide Design task pane	ALT+S Note For ALT+S to work, the Slide Design button must be displayed on the Formatting toolbar.
Move focus among all panes of Normal view	F6 (clockwise) SHIFT+F6 (counterclockwise)
Display the Other Task Panes menu	CTRL+SPACEBAR Note The task pane must have the focus.
Move to next placeholder on slide or to next slide	CTRL+ENTER
Move to next or previous slide	PAGE DOWN or PAGE UP
Open the Set Up Show dialog box	SHIFT+click Slide Show button .
Open a slide show on the current slide	SHIFT+F5
Open a slide show on slide 1	F5
Return to Normal view and close the slide show	ESC
Switch to Normal view but leave the slide show open	ALT+TAB

Navigate in a slide show

Disable the shortcut menu

In PowerPoint, on the Tools menu, click Options. On the View tab, clear the check box Show menu on right mouse click.

Keyboard shortcuts

To do this	Press this
Move to the next slide	N SPACEBAR or ENTER PAGE DOWN DOWN ARROW key RIGHT ARROW key SHIFT+F10 and then N
Move to the previous slide	P BACKSPACE PAGE UP UP ARROW key LEFT ARROW key SHIFT+F10+P
Move to a specific slide	Slide number and ENTER CTRL+S, and then slide number and ENTER
Move to slide last viewed	SHIFT+F10 then V CTRL+S, and then slide number and ENTER
Go to first slide	1+ENTER Press both mouse buttons for 2 seconds.
End a slide show	ESC
Change the pointer to a pen	CTRL+P
Erase any drawings made with the pen	E
Change the pointer back to an arrow	CTRL+A
Hide the pointer and Slide Show toolbar	CTRL+H
See a list of key combinations	F1

More training about shortcuts

For instruction on keyboard shortcuts in Office programs and detailed steps for finding and printing the list of shortcut keys in Help, see the course "Work with the keyboard in Office."