For alumni of the Firm
The keyboard layer you used at the Firm, rebuilt for any laptop. 70+ shortcuts, 2,300+ icons, and the muscle memory you built there, on Mac and Windows.
Three keys tidy a row of boxes in 3.0 seconds. By mouse it took 11.1.
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▶ Watch the shortcuts in actionThe problem
At the Firm, you built decks at speed: Ctrl+Alt+C to center, Alt+Z to match size, Ctrl+1 / Ctrl+2 to copy and paste position. The shortcut patterns top-firm consultants memorize were muscle memory by week three.
Then you moved to a corporate role, an exit, or somewhere else, and none of those patterns followed you. Now you're back to right-clicking menus, hunting through the ribbon, and spending twice as long on half the slides.
SlideShortcuts is a clean rebuild of those patterns. Same keystrokes. Same muscle memory. On any laptop, Mac or Windows.
Built by ex-Firm
SlideShortcuts is built and maintained by former top-firm consultants. We left, realized nobody had rebuilt the keyboard patterns we used every day, and made our own.
SlideShortcuts is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by McKinsey & Company. McKinsey® is a registered trademark of McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Why SlideShortcuts
Align left, right, center, top, bottom, middle. Distribute evenly. Group + align in one stroke. Twelve shortcuts that replace the entire Format menu.
Match widths, heights, or exact positions across objects. Copy position from one shape, paste it onto ten. Resize-to-fit text without dragging handles.
Group, ungroup, bring forward, send back. Plus jump to the next shape on the slide with Alt + arrow keys (Option + arrow on a Mac). No more squinting at the selection pane.
Insert textbox, sticker, footnote, legend, sticky note, new slide. Smart paste from Excel that grabs your formatting. Nine shortcuts you'll use daily.
Word wrap, font size, line spacing, default text format. Pickup style and apply style across shapes. Split or join textboxes with one stroke.
Swap two objects, select similar shapes, group horizontally or vertically, convert any shape to dots. Five ribbon-grade actions on Alt + 5–9 on Windows (Cmd + Option + 5–8 and Cmd + Option + Shift + D on a Mac).
Jump to Normal, Slide Sorter, or Fit-to-Window views without the View tab. Print the full deck straight from the keyboard, or n-up handouts on Windows.
All 70+ shortcuts & commands
Setup
Double-click one file: SlideShortcuts.msi on Windows, with no admin rights, or SlideShortcuts.pkg on a Mac.
Paste the license key from your email when the installer asks for it on Windows, or the SlideShortcuts window on a Mac.
Shortcuts activate instantly, and every future launch just works. To see all 70+, click Shortcuts on the SlideShortcuts tab on Windows, or open the Mac app's Keyboard Shortcuts window, which you can search.
Pricing
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FAQ
Yes. SlideShortcuts runs on PowerPoint for Windows (2016, 2019, 2021, 2024 and Microsoft 365) and PowerPoint for Mac (16.66 or later, on macOS 13 or later). The keyboard shortcuts install from slideshortcuts.com/setup: SlideShortcuts.msi on Windows, with no admin rights needed, and SlideShortcuts.pkg (the SlideShortcuts Mac app) on a Mac. The free add-in on Microsoft AppSource adds the panels only, not the shortcuts.
SlideShortcuts uses key combinations PowerPoint doesn't assign by default (like Ctrl Alt C for align center). If you ever hit a conflict with a custom macro or another add-in, email support@slideshortcuts.com with the shortcut and we'll either help you remap or document the conflict. On a Mac you can change any key yourself: S menu > Customize Shortcuts.
Yes. SlideShortcuts works on PowerPoint for Mac 16.66 and later. The free add-in panel (Quick Actions, Symbols, Lines, Table, Icons, Excel and the Shortcuts reference) works on both platforms. The keyboard shortcuts on Mac come from the SlideShortcuts Mac app: signed, notarized by Apple, and set up for you by the installer (see FAQ #4 for details). If your company blocks Office Store add-ins, the Mac app can add its own SlideShortcuts tab to PowerPoint instead.
The SlideShortcuts Mac app is a small menu-bar app, signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, that provides the keyboard-shortcut hooks PowerPoint for Mac doesn't expose to add-ins natively (Mac PowerPoint has no equivalent of the keyboard hook SlideShortcuts for Windows runs inside PowerPoint on a PC). macOS requires one-time Accessibility permission for any app that responds to keyboard shortcuts system-wide; the installer walks you through granting it, and macOS also asks you to let it control PowerPoint. It only acts while PowerPoint is the active app, runs your shortcuts entirely on your Mac, and never sees or transmits your slide content. One app, signed in our name, with nothing else to install.
Unless you cancel, your trial becomes the plan you picked, monthly or annual, on day 7, and the same key keeps working. Cancel before then and you pay nothing; the shortcuts stop when the trial ends. No uninstall needed, and your PowerPoint files are not affected.
Yes. Your license is tied to your purchase email. Activate it on whatever machines you use (work laptop, home desktop, Mac and Windows). If you ever lose access to your license, email support@slideshortcuts.com and we'll get you back up.
The shortcuts are designed by former MBB consultants, adapted from the muscle memory you built at the firm. If you've spent time in PowerPoint at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or a peer firm, the keystrokes will feel immediately familiar: same actions, same mappings, same speed.
SlideShortcuts runs locally inside PowerPoint and never reads or transmits your slide content, file names, or document data. To activate, it sends your email and license key to slideshortcuts.com, encrypted in transit, only to check your subscription. It also sends an anonymous usage count (a random install ID, your platform and the app version, with no email, key or slide content), and daily shortcut counts only if you say yes. From 1 November 2026, a new install also sends one more number with it: how many commands it ran on its first day, never which ones. On Windows that is all it sends: the tab's windows, templates, icons and flags are built into SlideShortcuts for Windows. Full details in our Privacy Policy.
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