Keynote
Keynote User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
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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
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Add a border and background to a chart in Keynote on Mac
You can add a border and a background color to any 2D bar, column, area, or scatter chart.
![A 2D column chart with a gradient background.](https://help.apple.com/assets/6386526B0659CD6C84350728/6386526F0659CD6C8435074C/en_US/581e1feead0765f2608dbea44bd50bdb.png)
Click the chart, then in the Format
sidebar, click the Chart tab.
In the Chart Options section of the sidebar, select the Border checkbox.
To add a background color to the chart or choose a style and color for the border, click the disclosure arrow next to Background & Border Style, then use the controls in that section.
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