

I am forever doing a finger dance of aligning, grouping, ungrouping, aligning objects and having to click the ribbon each time is a major time killer. So, what are my favorite shortcuts? As you can see from the screengrab above, I have specified key commands for alignment and layer order.

Any changes here will override the app’s default shortcuts. “Save as…”) and then you can specific what key combination you would like. It’s fairly straightforward in that you have to physically type in the app menu command exactly as it appears (i.e. Your window should look like this, and you can add any installed app here and then start customizing keyboard commands. Let me stress that this happens on the OS level outside of PowerPoint, so you need to go to your Mac preferences, not your PowerPoint ones.
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And Microsoft gives you no method for specifying custom keyboard shortcuts or changing the default ones.įortunately, Mac OS does allow you to set and change keyboard commands not just for Mac OS, but for almost any application running on your Mac via the System Preferences: Keyboard: App Shortcuts menu. Yes, PowerPoint comes preloaded with hundreds of keyboard shortcuts for all types of functions, but naturally, it seems like some of the things you need to do most often can only be done by mousing and clicking.
