Tweet PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts for presenters

There isn't any doubt that every speaker tries his best to have long lasting effect on audience. Everyone wants it to do the way Steve Jobs had been doing all his life. In addition to the right content, your communication skills, it's your presence of mind, ability to engage the audience, a right and pronto use of technology that gonna lead to a successful presentation.

If you are going to use Microsoft PowerPoint to deliver your presentation in next conference, use Presenter view and following keyboard shortcuts to be in control of things:

• Go to slide number: number+ENTER [During presentation you might have to jump to particular slide, just press the number and hit enter key]
• Display a blank black slide, or return to the presentation from a blank black slide: B or PERIOD [ You can use this when discussing something not on slide]
• Display a blank white slide, or return to the presentation from a blank white slide: W or COMMA[ You can use this when discussing something not on slide]
• Stop or restart an automatic or rehearsed presentation: S
• Return to the first slide: Press and hold Left Mouse button for several seconds

Shortcuts for audio/video

These shortcuts work on media inserted (embedded) from file and not on online embeds of YouTube etc.

• Stop media playback : ALT+Q
• Mute the sound: ALT+U
• Toggle between play and pause: ALT+P
• Increase the sound volume: ALT+Up
• Decrease the sound volume: ALT+Down
• Go to the next video bookmark: ALT+END
• Go to the previous video bookmark: ALT+HOME 

Besides these are standard keyboard shortcuts which many of you already know and use like F5 to start a slide show, backspace or next arrow to move forward and Ecs key to end the slideshow. To view complete list of keyboard shortcuts press F1 function key during slideshow mode.