PowerPoint: Create keyboard shortcuts and shortcuts

In this practical tip, we explain how to create shortcuts or shortcuts in PowerPoint. You cannot create new abbreviations. However, you can access all functions from the start with shortcuts - you don't even have to learn shortcuts by heart. We'll show you how.

Address shortcuts in PowerPoint

Unfortunately, you cannot create new shortcuts directly in PowerPoint.

• You can address almost any function with the buttons instead of the mouse.
• To do this, first hold the [Alt] key on your keyboard in PowerPoint.
• A shortcut is now displayed above all areas.
• For example, if you want to insert a new slide, hold [Alt] and then press [R] and then [I].
• You don't have to memorize the shortcuts, you just have to move to the function using the shortcuts shown.