Keynote User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with Keynote
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create a presentation
- Choose how to navigate your presentation
- Open or close a presentation
- Save and name a presentation
- Find a presentation
- Print a presentation
- Touch Bar for Keynote
- Create a presentation using VoiceOver
- Change Keynote privacy and analytics settings
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- Change object transparency
- Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image
- Add a border to an object
- Add a caption or title
- Add a reflection or shadow
- Use object styles
- Resize, rotate, and flip objects
- Move and edit objects using the object list
- Add linked objects to make your presentation interactive
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- Send a presentation
- Intro to collaboration
- Invite others to collaborate
- Collaborate on a shared presentation
- See the latest activity in a shared presentation
- Change a shared presentation’s settings
- Stop sharing a presentation
- Shared folders and collaboration
- Use Box to collaborate
- Create an animated GIF
- Post your presentation in a blog
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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 custom themes
- Copyright
Customize the toolbar in Keynote on Mac
The toolbar at the top of the window gives you quick access to the controls you need. As you discover which controls you use most, you can add, remove, and rearrange toolbar buttons to suit your work style. You can change how the buttons appear in the toolbar.
Tip: Hover the pointer over a button to see a description of what it does.
Hide or show the toolbar
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, click View in the menu bar at the top of your screen, then choose Hide Toolbar or Show Toolbar.
Add, remove, or rearrange toolbar buttons
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, click View in the menu bar at the top of your screen, then choose Customize Toolbar (you may need to scroll down to see it).
Do any of the following:
Add or remove items from the toolbar: Drag an item to the toolbar to add it. Drag an item away from the toolbar to remove it.
Rearrange items in the toolbar: Drag an item to reorder it. The Format, Animate, and Document buttons move together and can’t be separated.
Reset the toolbar: To restore the toolbar to its default setting, drag the set of buttons at the bottom of the window to the toolbar.
Click Done.
Hide or show the toolbar
By default, Keynote shows only the button icons in the toolbar. You can add the button names to the toolbar to help you remember what the icons represent, or show only the names to save space.
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, click View in the menu bar at the top of your screen, then choose Customize Toolbar (you may need to scroll down to see it).
Click the pop-up menu at the bottom left, then choose one of the following:
Icon and Text: The button icons and names appear in the toolbar.
Icon Only: The button icons appear without their names in the toolbar.
Text Only: The button names appear without their icons in the toolbar.
Click Done.