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In Microsoft PowerPoint, if you run your mouse over the edge of an object the cursor changes to Move. Click the edge of the object and you can move it around the slide with any of the following:

  • ← or → (called arrow below)

  • Shift + arrow

  • Ctrl + arrow

The Ctrl+arrow keyboard shortcut is particularly useful because you can quickly move items around pixel-by-pixel to their most attractive location.

However, try as I might I cannot find a shortcut for resize. Some editors, such as Visual Studio, have Ctrl+arrow and Shift+arrow to accomplish these separate tasks. Is there anything like this in PowerPoint?

Using PowerPoint 2000 if relevant.

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  • This is kind of old question. But to add a followup question, is there a keyboard shortcut to go to height or width size option, when you would like the set either of them manually?
    – DigitalNomad
    Sep 16, 2022 at 17:00

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  • Ctrl + Shift + ↑↓ change the height of the shape.
  • Ctrl + Shift + ←→ change the width of the shape.

If the shape's aspect ratio is locked, changing height will change width proportionally and vice versa.

This is in PowerPoint 2010. I haven't used 2000 in a long time, but I'm fairly sure the key combos should be the same.

UPDATE: I've checked this in PowerPoint 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 and found it doesn't work in any of them. Apparently this feature was introduced in 2010.

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  • Hmm, was sure I had tried that key combination but will try again and report back. Thanks.
    – abdekker-catch
    Dec 5, 2016 at 10:21
  • As it happens, I've got a copy of PPT 2000 in a VM and fired it up to check this out. Unfortunately Ctl+Shift+Arrowkeys doesn't resize shapes. You can get to the Format | Size dialog using Shift+F10 then O then right-arrow, then Tab your way around the dialog box and enter the new size you want (but to size things visually, that's no help).
    – Steve Rindsberg
    Dec 5, 2016 at 16:49
  • Good suggestion. Done. Luckily, I've got a VM with Office 97 through 2007 installed.
    – Steve Rindsberg
    Dec 6, 2016 at 16:28

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