PowerPoint 2019 For Dummies Cheat Sheet

If you’re ready to format text in PowerPoint 2019, this table gets you on the road toward ooohs and aaahs of doing so. If you use PowerPoint 2019 templates as the basis for your presentations, your text is already formatted acceptably. To really pull out the pyrotechnic stops, however, you have to know a few basic formatting tricks.

Like any good Windows program, PowerPoint 2019 uses the standard Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All, Find, and Replace commands. These commands work on text that you’ve selected, or if you’ve selected an entire object, the commands work on the object itself. In other words, you can use these commands with bits of text or with entire objects.

There are a lot of things you can do with PowerPoint 2019, and having shortcuts for the things you do most often is very handy. Some of the things you’ll frequently do in PowerPoint include creating, saving, and printing new presentations, as well as opening existing presentations, adding new slides, and getting help from PowerPoint. The following table tells you the shortcuts for these common actions.

PowerPoint 2019 is designed to create slides that are presented directly on a screen rather than printed out. The screen can be your computer’s own monitor, a projector, or an external monitor, such as a giant-screen TV. In most cases, the default settings for showing a presentation are adequate. However, in some cases, you may want to take control and run the slide show yourself. The following table lists the shortcuts you’ll most often use when running a slide show.