PowerPoint tips and tricks nobody tells you about
Shortcuts and hidden features for Microsoft PowerPoint — small, specific, and easy to use today.
PowerPoint tips
An eyedropper that matches any color on your screen
Not just inside your slide — anywhere on the display, including other open apps.
PPowerPointThe transition behind those impossibly smooth slide moves
Morph doesn't animate objects — it recalculates the shape between two slides for you.
PPowerPointThe Slide Master shortcut that saves hours of reformatting
Change one master layout and every slide built from it updates at once.
PPowerPointLine up and space objects without eyeballing it
Arrange > Align and Distribute snaps every selected shape into a perfectly even row or column.
PPowerPointLet PowerPoint suggest the layout for you
The Designer panel looks at your text and images and offers polished layout options in seconds.
PPowerPointDraw guides that line up across every slide
Turn on Guides from the View tab to place a ruler line once and reuse it for consistent alignment throughout.
Shrink a bloated file without losing visible quality
Compress Pictures reduces every embedded image's file size at once — handy before emailing a heavy deck.
PPowerPointRehearse with a coach that critiques your pacing
Rehearse with Coach listens to a practice run and flags filler words, pace and reading straight from the slide.
PPowerPointMove several shapes as if they were one object
Ctrl+G groups a selection so it resizes, moves and animates together instead of piece by piece.
PPowerPointPull slides from another deck without losing their formatting
Reuse Slides inserts slides from a different file while keeping (or matching) their original design.