Keynote User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
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- Use iCloud Drive with Keynote
- Export to PowerPoint or another file format
- Reduce the presentation file size
- Save a large presentation as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a presentation
- Move a presentation
- Delete a presentation
- Password-protect a presentation
- Lock a presentation
- Create and manage Keynote themes
- Copyright
Highlight text in Keynote on Mac
You can highlight text in text boxes and in shapes. These highlights aren’t visible in printed presentations.
When multiple people are working on a presentation, each person’s highlights appear in a unique colour. To learn how to change your colour, see Set author name and comment colour.
Tip: If you want highlights that are visible in your final presentation, add a background colour to text in any colour. This type of highlight isn’t included with Keynote review tools.
Highlight text
Select the text you want to highlight.
Choose Insert > Highlight (from the Insert menu at the top of your screen).
You can’t highlight text in table cells, but you can add conditional highlighting to cells to change a cell’s appearance based on its value.
Add a comment to highlighted text
Click the highlighted text.
In the pop-over, click “Add a comment”, then type your comment.
Click Done.
Remove a highlight
If a presentation is shared with others, only you and the presentation owner can remove your highlight. However, if someone else adds a comment to your highlight, the author name and colour of the highlight changes to the comment’s author.
Move the pointer over the highlighted text, then click Delete in the pop-over.
If no pop-over appears, that means the highlight was added as colour behind the text. To remove it, remove the background colour.
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.