Question: What is a good way to go directly to a particular slide in a PowerPoint while the show is being presented? I often see presenters hit the [Esc] key, click on the Slide Sorter View icon in the lower left corner of the screen, then click on the slide to be displayed, and finally click on the Slide Show from current slide icon, again in the lower left corner of the screen. There must be a better way!Answer: You are right, there is. While the PowerPoint is being presented, type the number of the slide you wish to display, and press Enter. PowerPoint will immediately display the selected slide as if it were the next slide in the sequence. Unless you have the numerical order of your slides memorized, it would be most advantageous to have a printout of your slideshow. A quick way to do that is to display the Slide Sorter view, take a screen print by pressing Alt and Print Screen, importing that into any graphics program, and printing. You will have at least 28 slides on a single 8½” x 11″ sheet of paper.

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