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Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Speed Up PowerPoint Presentations

By Wendy Russell, About.com

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Quick Navigation

Navigation shortcut keys in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

Use Navigation keys for PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts

© Wendy Russell

To quickly navigate around your presentation use these single keyboard shortcuts or shortcut key combinations. Using the mouse can slow you down. These shortcut keys are located to the left of the number keypad on your keyboard.

Home - Moves cursor to beginning of current line of text
End - Moves cursor to end of current line of text
Ctrl + Home - Moves cursor to beginning of presentation
Ctrl + End - Moves cursor to end of presentation
Page Up - Moves to previous slide
Page Down - Moves to next slide

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