Check spelling, replace words and add comments in Keynote on Apple Vision Pro

Spelling errors are corrected as you type, unless you turned off the Auto-Correction setting for your Apple Vision Pro. If you turned off this setting, you can still flag spelling errors as you enter text in Keynote presentations. You can also add terms to the dictionary so they’re not marked as misspellings.

Note: Spelling is checked according to the language of the keyboard you’re using, not the language of the document.

Check and correct spelling

Tap in the navigation bar at the top of the window, tap Settings, then tap Auto-Correction.
Turn on Check Spelling, then tap Done.
Misspelt and unrecognised words are underlined in red.
Tap a misspelt word, then tap the correct spelling.

If you don’t want to check spelling, turn off Check Spelling. If you don’t want misspelt or unknown words to be corrected as you type, you can also turn off autocorrect on your Apple Vision Pro. Go to Settings > General, then tap Keyboard.

Add and remove words from the spelling dictionary

Add a word: Double-tap the underlined word, tap in the format bar that appears, tap Replace, then tap Learn Spelling. The word is added to the dictionary used by Keynote and other apps.
Remove a word: Double-tap the underlined word, tap in the format bar that appears, tap Replace, then tap Unlearn Spelling. The word is removed from the dictionary used by Keynote and other apps.

Note: If you add a word to the spelling dictionary, it’s added for all languages.

Look up words

You can quickly look up the definition and spelling of words. Some listings also include a thesaurus entry and a Wikipedia entry.

Tap the word, tap , then tap Define.

Find and replace text

You can search for specific words, phrases, numbers and characters, and automatically replace search results with new content that you specify. All content, including content on skipped slides and in presenter notes, is included in the search.

Tap in the navigation bar at the top of the window, then tap Find.
In the search field, enter the word or phrase you want to find.
You can select other options, such as Match Case and Whole Words, to refine your search.
Tap the arrows to find the next or previous match.
To replace text, tap to the left of the text field, tap Find and Replace, then enter a replacement word or phrase. Tap Replace to replace each match, or tap Replace All.
Tap to close the search results.

Add or remove a highlight

You can highlight text everywhere except in charts and table cells.

Note: If the presentation is shared with others, only you and the presentation owner can delete your highlight. If someone else adds a comment to your highlight, the author name and colour of the highlight changes to the comment’s author, and you can’t delete the comment.

Add a highlight: Select text, tap in the format bar that appears, then tap Highlight.
Remove a highlight: Tap the highlighted text, tap in the format bar that appears, then tap Remove Highlight.

Add, edit or delete a comment

You can add and edit your own comments, and anyone can delete a comment.

The Keynote app on Apple Vision Pro, showing a comment on the current slide.

Select text, or tap an object or a table cell, tap in the format bar that appears, then tap Comment.
Note: If you tap the background of the slide (so that nothing is selected), you can add a comment to the slide that always stays open. You can resize the comment and reposition it on the slide. Others can’t reply to this type of comment.
Type your comment, then tap Done.
A comment marker (in your author colour) appears next to the text to indicate there’s a comment about it.
To change the name that appears with your comments, tap in the navigation bar at the top of the window, tap Settings, then tap Author Name.
To view, edit or delete your comment, do one of the following:
- Open a comment: Tap the comment marker.
- Edit a comment: If you’re the comment’s author, tap the comment marker, tap next to the comment, then tap Edit Comment.
- Delete a comment: Tap the comment marker, then tap at the bottom of the comment. If there are replies to the comment, this action deletes the entire conversation. You can delete an individual reply only if you’re the author of the reply or the presentation owner.
  If the comment is on the slide background, move the pointer over the comment, then tap .

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Apple Vision Pro User Guide