Keynote User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new in Keynote 14.1
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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
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Touch Bar for Keynote on Mac
If your Mac has a Touch Bar, you can use familiar gestures—such as tap, swipe, and slide—directly on the Touch Bar to edit and control presentations in Keynote. Controls on the Touch Bar change depending on what’s selected in your presentation.
![A keyboard with the Touch Bar above the number keys. Buttons for modifying text are on the left and in the middle. The Control Strip on the right has system controls for brightness, volume, and Siri.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E614B0C470628E0802F4D9/65E614B2F3544CAA37084393/en_US/b77840fe356b52db0e5ca09ecdce05d7.png)
For example, when you play a presentation, the Touch Bar shows all your slides along with other controls. If you’re presenting on a separate display, tap to switch the display showing the presentation.
![The MacBook Pro Touch Bar with presentation controls for exiting the presentation, jumping to different slides, and switching the presenter display.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E614B0C470628E0802F4D9/65E614B2F3544CAA37084393/en_US/b3ab542f199ce7ad5a1ea5866c1a9ed6.png)
If you’re working in the slide navigator, the Touch Bar shows controls to reorder, skip, and group slides.
![The MacBook Pro Touch Bar with controls for navigating to the next or previous slide, fitting the slide in the slide layout area, skipping a slide, and grouping or ungrouping a slide.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E614B0C470628E0802F4D9/65E614B2F3544CAA37084393/en_US/77d70ef2c60d86f51f32d3e3ce7634e0.png)
If a shape is selected, the Touch Bar shows controls to change the shape’s stroke (outline), color fill, opacity, and more.
![The MacBook Pro Touch Bar with controls for adjusting a shape’s opacity, changing the fill color, changing the text color, changing the outline color, and styling the outline.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E614B0C470628E0802F4D9/65E614B2F3544CAA37084393/en_US/d5b2d0c684a1373aace76c232b58a4b8.png)
Show controls for Keynote
If you don’t see the controls for editing text and performing other tasks in Keynote, turn them on in System Settings (or System Preferences).
Do one of the following:
macOS Ventura 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Keyboard in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Click the Touch Bar Settings button.
macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click the Keyboard button.
Click the pop-up menu next to “Touch Bar shows,” then choose App Controls.
You can find more information about how to use the Touch Bar in the macOS User Guide.