Canva can be used to create stunning presentations, either from many of their pre-existing templates (which can be customised) or by starting from scratch with a blank presentation. This blog post covers using keyboard shortcuts in Canva during presentations. For information about all other keyboard shortcuts in Canva, just click here.
Keyboard shortcut to start a presentation in Canva
To enter presentation mode in Canva, use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + P
Canva keyboard shortcuts while presenting
You can add some great effects during a presentation! These include:
| Blurring a presentation | Press B |
| Adds Confetti | Press C |
| Adds a Drum roll | Press D |
| Adds Bubbles | Press O |
| Quiet (shhh!) | Press Q |
| Add a Timer | Press a number key (pressing 1 counts down from 1 minute, pressing 2 counts down from 2 minutes etc) |
| Stop the Timer | Press X |
| To move forward to the next slide | Press → (right arrow) |
| To move back a slide | Press ← (left arrow) |
To end a presentation in Canva…
To end presentation mode in Canva, press Esc 
Keyboard Shortcuts for Presentations Video Tutorial
I hope you enjoyed these keyboard shortcuts during presentations in Canva. If you know of any other ones, please add them to the comments section below 🙂
A quick reference guide showing all Canva keyboard shortcuts (or, at least all the keyboard shortcuts that I know of!) is available on my blog here and as a downloadable .pdf in the Resources Section of this website.
There is also a blog post about general keyboard shortcuts in Canva available here, and one about keyboard shortcuts when working with text here.
I hope you find them useful!
M – does a mic drop
G – summons a ghost
S – summons a spider
U – adds a red curtain
(i think dats all ik that is not here ᕙ(⍢)ᕗ)
Thank you! I really appreciate the fact you took the time to comment. I can’t get G or S to work… perhaps it was for Halloween?? (starts counting days until next Halloween…)