Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Edit Menu

The Edit Menu gathers together all of PowerPoint’s Edit tools into one handy place. Many of these commands are similar to those in other Office programs, but they aren’t all the same.

Undo, Repeat/Redo, Cut, Copy, Copy to Scrapbook

These commands work just as they do in Excel.

Paste, Paste from Scrapbook

These commands work just as they do in Excel (Repeat/Redo).

Paste Special

Opens the Paste Special window, which you can use to paste the contents of the clipboard into the presentation as a linked or embedded file. It also gives you some formatting options when pasting such a file.

Paste as Hyperlink

Pastes the clipboard contents (if you’ve copied an Internet address or some material from Word) into the frontmost PowerPoint presentation as a hyperlink.

Clear

Clears the selected item from the frontmost presentation document.

Select All

Selects all objects on the screen. If the cursor is currently in an active text object, selects all of the text inside that object. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-A.

Duplicate

Duplicates the selected object, placing the copy slightly below and to the right of the original. Duplicating an item doesn’t put it on the clipboard. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-D.

Delete Slide

Deletes the current slide (Normal or Notes view) or the selected slides (in Slide Sorter view).

Find

Opens PowerPoint’s Find window, which you can use to search for certain keywords or formatting in Office files on your hard drive. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-F.

Replace

Searches for specific text or formatting and replaces ...