Bold, italics, and underline. If you use PowerPoint, you are probably familiar with these three buttons on the toolbar. If you want to use special formatting for a word you probably use your mouse to highlight the word and then click the appropriate button on the toolbar.
You can save yourself a bit of mouse work when it comes to formatting words. Let’s say you want to bold a specific word in a sentence. Instead of reaching for your mouse and highlighting the word, simply use the keyboard (the arrow keys work) and move the cursor to any part of the word you want to format.
Next, instead of using your mouse to click the different buttons on the toolbar, you can once again just use the keyboard. To bold that word in a sentence, simply press Ctrl + B and it is done. Likewise, you can use Ctrl + I to italicize a word, and Ctrl + U to underline one.