Expand and zoom your workspace in Keynote on Mac
You can extend the canvas around a slide to create more workspace. You can also zoom in or out of a slide, and you can enlarge the Keynote window to fill the entire screen.
Add workspace around a slide
To get more space to work with, when creating a complex slide layout, you can expand the canvas around the slide. You can use this space to add and customise objects as well as keep objects you want to move onto the slide during a presentation.
Click Zoom in the toolbar, then deselect Auto-Centre.
Note: If Fit Slide is already selected, you must deselect it (or change the zoom level) before you can change the Auto-Centre setting.
Drag an object from the slide into the area beyond the slide.
As you drag the object, the canvas grows to accommodate it. You can expand the canvas to be as large as you want.
You can scroll around the canvas or hold down the Space bar and drag to pan the canvas.
To see all the content on the slide and the extended canvas (as much as can fit on the screen), select View > Zoom > Zoom to Fit Content (from the View menu at the top of your screen).
To turn off the extended canvas, click Zoom in the toolbar, then select Auto-Centre.
Objects you placed on the canvas may be out of view, but you can select and edit them in the object list.
To see all the objects on the extended canvas again, click Zoom in the toolbar, deselect Auto-Centre, then select View > Zoom > Zoom to Fit Content.
When you reopen a presentation, Auto-Centre is automatically selected, even if it was deselected when you closed the presentation. If you had content on the extended canvas, it may be out of view.
Zoom in or out
You can enlarge (zoom in) or reduce (zoom out) your overall view of a slide and the surrounding workspace. For example, you can zoom in to focus on the cells of a table or zoom out to work on the layout of your slide.
Click the Zoom pop-up menu in the toolbar.
Select an option:
A percentage: The slide enlarges or reduces accordingly.
Fit Slide: The slide adjusts to fill the window.
If you enlarge or reduce the size of the Keynote window, the zoom level changes so that the slide always fills the window.
Note: This option turns off the extended canvas and the content there may disappear from view. To see it again, click Zoom in the toolbar and deselect Fit Slide. Click Zoom again and deselect Auto-Centre, then select View > Zoom > Zoom to Fit Content (from the View menu at the top of your screen).
To quickly zoom in or out, choose View > Zoom > Zoom In to enlarge a slide or View > Zoom > Zoom Out to reduce it. You can select these commands multiple times to reduce a slide to 10 per cent or enlarge it to 400 per cent.
View Keynote full screen
You can expand the Keynote window to fill the entire screen.
Do one of the following:
Click the green button in the top-left corner of the Keynote window.
Select View > Enter Full Screen (from the View menu at the top of your screen).
To see the Keynote menu and other menu bar controls, move the pointer to the top of the screen.
To return to regular view, move the pointer to the top of the screen, then click the green button or select View > Exit Full Screen.
Tip: When you open multiple presentations in full screen, they open in tabs instead of in separate windows. You move between the presentations by clicking the tabs in the tab bar. To have presentations (and all other documents) open in separate windows instead, do one of the following:
macOS Ventura 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Desktop & Dock in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Go to Windows & Apps, click the pop-up menu next to “Prefer tabs when opening documents”, then choose “Never”.macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, then click General. Click the “Prefer tabs” pop-up menu, then choose “never”.