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Technology Tip of the Week - February 27, 2006
Options for Controlling Slides in a PowerPoint Show
Did you know that there are some quick shortcuts you can use when you are doing a PowerPoint presentation that work even without a mouse? Kathy Beauchene from the English Department has suggested these tips that she has found helpful in the classroom or at a conference. All these shortcuts work when you are already in Show view.
| Option | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| To go to a specific Slide <number> |
Type the number of the slide and press
ENTER For example to go to Slide 5 in a presentation, type the
number 5 on the keyboard and press the Enter key.
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To go to a Black/Unblack Screen (This is a great attention getter) |
Press b or a Period (.) to go to a
black screen Press b or Period again to toggle back to the normal show window |
| To go to a White/Unwhite Screen |
Press w or Comma (,) to go to a white screen Press w or Comma (,) again to toggle back to a normal window |
| To Show/Hide Pointer | Press a or = |
| To open to Slide Show | Press the F5 key |
| To End Show without going through all the slides |
Press the ESC key Or Press CTRL key + Break key, or Press the Minus (-) symbol or Press the END key (goes to last slide in presentation) |
| To erase Screen Annotations | Press e on the keyboard |
| To advance to a Hidden Slide | Press h on the keyboard |
| To advance to the Next Slide - lots of choices! |
Click the left mouse button Or Press the Spacebar Or Press n on the keyboard Or Press the Right Arrow key Or Press the Down Arrow key Or Press the Page Down key |
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To return to the Previous Slide - lots of
choices! |
Press the Backspace key Or Press p Or Press the Left Arrow key Or Press the Up Arrow key Or Press the Page Up key
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Another nifty tip that comes from Norm Grant suggests that when you save your PowerPoint presentation save it as a .pps or in PowerPoint Show format. This allows you to open directly into Show view and hide the edit view. To do this:
Open your PowerPoint presentation
Go to File - Save As
Click on the drop-down arrow next to Save as Type: and choose PowerPoint Show (*.pps)
That's it!
For more help with this feature or other PowerPoint features, please contact one of the faculty mentors - Tony Basilico (abasilico@ccri.edu) or Luis Malaret (lmalaret@ccri.edu) or one of the IT Instructional Support team (Norm Grant, Gene Grande or Linda Beith).
Website of the Week
Finding Articles Online
Searching for articles on the Web to share with your students or for your own use can be time-consuming and often frustrating. This article by Mary Ellen Bates at: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3584851 offers some great tips on utilizing specialized search engines to make your searching more efficient and more productive. Check out Google Scholar, or Scirus or PubMed for interesting browsing.
Feel free to post your thoughts or opinions of this site in the Teaching Forum message board. What search tools or techniques have you found helpful?
These tips are provided by the Department of Information Technology instructional support team. If you have any questions on these tips, or wish to offer your own, please feel free to contact Linda Beith at lbeith@ccri.edu. View an archive of past technology tips at http://it.ccri.edu/Training/Tips/tip_week.shtml.
