Canva – 13 keyboard shortcuts for presentations

Note – there is an updated version of this post available here!

Canva is a brilliant easy-to-use online graphic design tool, that allows people to create stunning graphics for social media channels, print media, blogs and websites from your mobile or browser. To sign up for a free account, just click here. 🙂 There are also other versions available – a Pro version with more features (£8.99 per user per month, billed yearly. Or £10.99 per month, billed monthly) and an Enterprise version (for larger teams who need advanced brand and collaboration control) from £24.00 per user, per month, billed yearly.

Canva can be used to create stunning presentations, either from many of their pre-existing templates or from a blank presentation.

This blog post covers using keyboard shortcuts in Canva during presentations. For information about all other keyboard shortcuts in Canva, 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 in presentations

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
Add different musical notes	Press any of the following keys (to get different notes) – W E R T Y U I
shhh!	Press Q

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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!

Note – there is an updated version of this post available here!