Keystroke for Showing Slide Sorter

[Bob S]

2 questions:

1. While editing or creating slides I find that I often want to view the
slide sorter. There is a key to quickly start the slide show (F5). Is
there such a keystroke to quickly (whithout having to move the mouse down to
that tiny icon at the bottom-left part of the screen) view the slide sorter?

2. I could not find such a keystroke, so I recorded a VERY simple macro to
switch to the slide-sorter view. Is there a way to get this macro assigned
to a function key or other keystroke? There seem to be many function keys
without any assignment in PowerPoint.

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[Bob S]

I forgot to mention that I am using Office 2003.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for
without resorting to VBA or add-ins.

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[Chirag]

Look at Shortcut Manager for PowerPoint add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppsctmgr/ppsctmgr.html - it enables you to define
keyboard shortcuts to PowerPoint menu items and macros.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

1. While editing or creating slides I find that I often want to view the

slide sorter. There is a key to quickly start the slide show (F5). Is
there such a keystroke to quickly (whithout having to move the mouse down to
that tiny icon at the bottom-left part of the screen) view the slide sorter?

Alt+VD

 

[Bob S]

Thanks. I think I will just go with that.

sorter?

Alt+VD