How to create a title slide for your presentation?

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How to Make a PowerPoint Title Slide? ☞ Today I am going to show you a very simple yet effective 3-step process to designing awesome presentation title slides in a very short period of time. So now Let’s dive right in! Where you are delivering a live presentation or giving a presentation in class or business meeting or you are sharing an online course. A great title slide or cover slide can elevate your visual content and help it reach millions of people. But a bad title slide will make the whole presentation fall apart. ☞ When you create a new presentation you can choose a theme from the given built-in design themes. I am sure we all have seen that built-in designed themes. Many of them have charm in them but hopelessly they are outdated and several audiences can smell these templates from miles away. So always try to create the first slide by yourself. For creating your own first slide Pick a good template and modify it in different ways by using different colors, font
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Microsoft PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts KEYS

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Few you know and a few you don’t
Learn how to form and style new slides quickly in PowerPoint with the new slide keyboard shortcut.

Check out below keyboard shortcuts keys for Microsoft PowerPoint that will save you time when building and editing your slides.

Foremost, let’s review some common and general keyboard shortcuts for Beginning(opening), Ending(closing), and switching between presentations, moreover as navigating the Ribbon.


KEY
ACTION/COMMAND TO DO
Ctrl+N
Create a brand new presentation
Ctrl+O
Open an existing presentation
Ctrl+Tab
Switch between open presentations
Alt+Y 
Go to the Help tab
Alt+A
Add up numeric values in selected text fields.
Alt+X
Go to the Add-ins tab
Alt+W
Go to the View tab
Alt+R
Go to the Review tab
Alt+S
Go to the Slide Show tab
Alt+K
Go to the Transitions tab
Alt+G
Open the Design tab
Alt+N
Open the Insert tab
Alt+H
Go to the Home tab
Ctrl+S
Save a presentation
F1
Open the Help pane
Alt+F
Open the File tab menu
Ctrl+F1
Show or hide the ribbon
Alt+Q
Go to the “Tell me what you want to do” box
Alt or F10
Turnkey tips on or off
F7
Check the spelling
Ctrl+F2
Print Preview View
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4
Close a presentation
Ctrl+Y
Redo an action
Ctrl+Q
Save and close a presentation
Ctrl+Z
Undo an action
F12 or Alt+F2
Open the Save As dialog box


 Try these shortcuts for quick and simples to select text within text boxes, objects on your slides, or slides in your presentation.


KEY
ACTION TO DO
Ctrl+A
Select all text in a text box, all objects on a slide, or all slides in a presentation
Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down Arrow
Move a slide to the beginning or end of your presentation 
Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow
Move a slide up or down in your presentation 
PgUp
Head to the previous slide
PgDn
Go to the next slide
End
Go to the last slide, or from within a text box, go to the end of the line
Home
Go to the first slide, or from within a text box, go to the beginning of the line
Shift+Tab
Move to the previous object on a slide
Tab
Select the next object on a slide

Formatting and Editing. Below keyboard shortcuts will save you time so you can easily edit and format!


KEY
ACTION TO DO
Ctrl+X
Cut selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)
Ctrl+D
Duplicate the selected object or slide
Ctrl+M
Insert a new slide
Alt+H, S, H
Insert a shape
Ctrl+K
Insert a hyperlink
Alt+N, P
Insert a picture
Alt+W, Q
Open the Zoom dialog box to change the zoom for the slide
Alt+H, L
Select a slide layout
Ctrl+T
Open the Font dialog box when text or object is selected
Ctrl+R
Right align a paragraph
Ctrl+L
Left align a paragraph
Ctrl+J
Justify a paragraph
Ctrl+E
Center a paragraph
Ctrl+U
Add or remove underline to selected text
Ctrl+I
Add or remove italics to selected text
Ctrl+B
Add or remove bold to selected text
Delete
Remove selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)
Ctrl+Alt+V
Open the Paste Special dialog box
Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Paste selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)
Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert
Copy selected text, selected object(s), or selected slide(s)


Helpful Slideshow Shortcuts

When you’re ready to start a presentation, the following keyboard combos should come in handy.
  • F5: Start the presentation from the beginning
  • Shift+F5: begin the presentation from this slide 
  • Ctrl+P: Annotate with the Pen tool during a slideshow
  • N or Page Down: Advance to the following slide during a slideshow
  • P or Page Up: Return to the previous slide during a slide show
  • B: Change the screen to black during a slideshow; press B again to return to the slideshow
  • Esc: End the slideshow


The more you deploy And practice keyboard shortcuts, the fast and simple they're to remember. It’s tough to remember all and also nobody expects you to memorize all keys. 

Hopefully, you’ve found some new ones you can easily apply and use to make your life in Powerpoint a bit better.
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