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Shortcut Keys for Office Impress
The following is a list of shortcut keys for Office Impress.
You can also use the general shortcut keys in Office.
Some of the shortcut keys may be assigned to your desktop system. Keys that are assigned to the desktop system are not available to Office. Try to assign different keys either for Office, in Tools - Customise - Keyboard, or in your desktop system.
Function Keys for Office Impress
| Shortcut Keys | Effect |
|---|---|
| F2 | Edit text. |
| F3 | Enter Group. |
| Ctrl+F3 | Exit Group. |
| Shift+F3 | Duplicate |
| F4 | Position and Size |
| F5 | View Slide Show. |
| Ctrl+Shift+F5 | Navigator |
| F7 | Spelling |
| Ctrl+F7 | Thesaurus |
| F8 | Edit Points. |
| Ctrl+Shift+F8 | Fit text to frame. |
| F11 | Styles |
Shortcut Keys in Slide Shows
| Shortcut Keys | Effect |
|---|---|
| Esc | End presentation. |
| Spacebar or Right arrow or Down arrow or Page Down or Enter or Return or N | Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide). |
| Alt+Page Down | Go to next slide without playing effects. |
| [number] + Enter | Type a number of a slide and press Enter to go to the slide. |
| Left arrow or Up arrow or Page Up or Backspace or P | Play previous effect again. If no previous effect exists on this slide, show previous slide. |
| Alt+Page Up | Go to the previous slide without playing effects. |
| Home | Jump to first slide in the slide show. |
| End | Jump to the last slide in the slide show. |
| Ctrl+ Page Up | Go to the previous slide. |
| Ctrl+ Page Down | Go to the next slide. |
| B or . | Show black screen until next key or mouse wheel event. |
| W or , | Show white screen until next key or mouse wheel event. |
Shortcut Keys in the Normal View
| Shortcut Keys | Effect |
|---|---|
| Plus(+) Key | Zoom in. |
| Minus(-) Key | Zoom out. |
| Times(×) Key (number pad) | Fit page in window. |
| Divide(÷) Key (number pad) | Zoom in on current selection. |
| Shift+Ctrl+G | Group selected objects. |
| Shift+Ctrl+Alt+A | Ungroup selected group. |
| Ctrl+ click | Enter a group, so that you can edit the individual objects of the group. Click outside the group to return to the normal view. |
| Ctrl+Shift+K | Combine selected objects. |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K | Split selected object. This combination only works on an object that was created by combining two or more objects. |
| Ctrl+ Plus key | Bring to Front. |
| Shift+Ctrl+ Plus key | Bring Forwards. |
| Ctrl+ Minus key | Send Backwards. |
| Shift+Ctrl+ Minus key | Send to Back. |
Shortcut Keys when Editing Text
| Shortcut Keys | Effect |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Hyphen(-) | Soft hyphens; hyphenation set by you. |
| Ctrl+Shift+minus sign (-) | Non-breaking hyphen (is not used for hyphenation) |
| Ctrl+Shift+Space | Non-breaking spaces. Non-breaking spaces are not used for hyphenation and are not expanded if the text is justified. |
| Shift+Enter | Line break without paragraph change |
| Arrow Left | Move cursor to left |
| Shift+Arrow Left | Move cursor with selection to the left |
| Ctrl+Arrow Left | Go to beginning of word |
| Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Left | Selecting to the left word by word |
| Arrow Right | Move cursor to right |
| Shift+Arrow Right | Move cursor with selection to the right |
| Ctrl+Arrow Right | Go to start of next word |
| Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Right | Selecting to the right word by word |
| Arrow Up | Move cursor up one line |
| Shift+Arrow Up | Selecting lines in an upwards direction |
| Ctrl+Arrow Up | Move cursor to beginning of the previous paragraph |
| Arrow Down | Move cursor down one line |
| Shift+Arrow Down | Selecting lines in a downwards direction |
| Ctrl+Arrow Down | Move cursor to end of paragraph. Next keystroke move cursor to end of next paragraph |
| Home | Go to beginning of line |
| Shift+Home | Go and select to the beginning of a line |
| End | Go to end of line |
| Shift+End | Go and select to end of line |
| Ctrl+Home | Go to start of text block in slide |
| Ctrl+End | Go to end of text block in slide |
| Ctrl+Del | Delete text to end of word |
| Ctrl+Backspace | Delete text to beginning of word In a list: delete an empty paragraph in front of the current paragraph |
| Ctrl+Shift+Del | Delete text to end of sentence |
| Ctrl+Shift+Backspace | Delete text to beginning of sentence |
Shortcut Keys in Office Impress
| Shortcut Keys | Effect |
|---|---|
| Arrow key | Moves the selected object or the page view in the direction of the arrow. |
| Ctrl+ Arrow Key | Move around in the page view. |
| Shift + drag | Constrains the movement of the selected object horizontally or vertically. |
| Ctrl+ drag (with Copy when moving option active) | Hold down Ctrl and drag an object to create a copy of the object. |
| Alt Key | Hold down Alt to draw or resize objects by dragging from the centre of the object outward. |
| Alt key+click | Select the object behind the currently selected object. |
| Alt+Shift+click | Select the object in front of the currently selected object. |
| Shift+click | Select adjacent items or a text passage. Click at the beginning of a selection, move to the end of the selection, and then hold down Shift while you click. |
| Shift+drag (when resizing) | Hold down Shift while dragging to resize an object to maintain the proportions of the object. |
| Tab key | Select objects in the order in which they were created. |
| Shift+Tab | Select objects in the reverse order in which they were created. |
| Escape | Exit current mode. |
| Enter | Activate a placeholder object in a new presentation (only if the frame is selected). |
| Ctrl+Enter | Moves to the next text object on the slide. If there are no text objects on the slide, or if you reached the last text object, a new slide is inserted after the current slide. The new slide uses the same layout as the current slide. |
| PageUp | Switch to the previous slide. No function on the first slide. |
| PageDown | Switch to the next slide. No function on the last slide. |
Navigating with the Keyboard in Slide Sorter and Slide Pane
| Shortcut Keys | Effect |
|---|---|
| Home/End | Set the focus to the first/last slide. |
| Left/Right arrow keys or Page Up/Down | Set the focus to the next/previous slide. |
| Alt+Shift+PageDown | Move selected slides down one position in Slide Sorter list. If you select multiple slides, they are moved together with the last selected slide in the list. |
| Alt+Shift+PageUp | Move selected slides up one position. If you select multiple slides, they are moved together with the first selected slide in the list. |
| Alt+Shift+End | Move selected slides to end of Slide Sorter list. |
| Alt+Shift+Home | Move selected slides to start of Slide Sorter list. |
| Enter | Change to Normal Mode with the active slide when in Slide Sorter. Add a new slide when in Slide Pane. |