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Keynote User Guide for Mac

• What’s new in Keynote 14.2
• Intro to 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
• Undo or redo changes
• Show or hide sidebars
• Quick navigation
• Change the working view
• Expand and zoom your workspace
• Customize the Keynote toolbar
• Change Keynote settings on Mac
• Touch Bar for Keynote
• Create a presentation using VoiceOver
• Add or delete slides
• Add and view presenter notes
• Reorder slides
• Group or ungroup slides
• Skip or unskip a slide
• Change the slide size
• Change a slide background
• Add a border around a slide
• Show or hide text placeholders
• Show or hide slide numbers
• Apply a slide layout
• Add and edit slide layouts
• Change a theme
• Add an image
• Add an image gallery
• Edit an image
• Add and edit a shape
• Combine or break apart shapes
• Draw a shape
• Save a shape to the shapes library
• Add and align text inside a shape
• Add 3D objects
• Add lines and arrows
• Animate, share, or save drawings
• Add video and audio
• Record audio
• Edit video and audio

Add live video

• Set movie and image formats
• Position and align objects
• Use alignment guides
• Place objects inside a text box or shape
• Layer, group, and lock objects
• 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
• Select text
• Copy and paste text
• Use dictation to enter text
• Use accents and special characters
• Format a presentation for another language
• Use phonetic guides
• Use bidirectional text
• Use vertical text
• Change the font or font size
• Add bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough to text
• Change the color of text
• Change text capitalization
• Add a shadow or outline to text
• Intro to paragraph styles
• Apply a paragraph style
• Create, rename, or delete paragraph styles
• Update or revert a paragraph style
• Use a keyboard shortcut to apply a style
• Adjust character spacing
• Add drop caps
• Raise and lower characters and text
• Format fractions automatically
• Create and use character styles
• Format dashes and quotation marks
• Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text
• Set tab stops
• Format text into columns
• Adjust line spacing
• Format lists
• Add a highlight effect to text
• Add mathematical equations
• Add borders and rules (lines) to separate text
• Add or delete a table
• Select tables, cells, rows, and columns
• Add or remove rows and columns
• Move rows and columns
• Resize rows and columns
• Merge or unmerge cells
• Change the look of table text
• Show, hide, or edit a table title
• Change table gridlines and colors
• Use table styles
• Resize, move, or lock a table
• Add and edit cell content
• Format dates, currency, and more
• Create a custom cell format
• Highlight cells conditionally
• Format tables for bidirectional text
• Alphabetize or sort table data
• Calculate values using data in table cells
• Use the Formulas and Functions Help
• Add or delete a chart
• Change a chart from one type to another
• Modify chart data
• Move, resize, and rotate a chart
• Change the look of data series
• Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings
• Change the look of chart text and labels
• Add a chart border and background
• Use chart styles
• Animate objects onto and off a slide
• Animate objects on a slide
• Change build order and timing
• Add transitions
• Present on your Mac
• Present on a separate display
• Present during a FaceTime call
• Use a remote
• Make a presentation advance automatically
• Require a password to exit a presentation
• Play a slideshow with multiple presenters
• Rehearse on your Mac
• Record presentations
• Check spelling
• Look up words
• Find and replace text
• Replace text automatically
• Set author name and comment color
• Highlight text
• Add and print comments
• 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
• 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
• Transfer files with AirDrop
• Transfer presentations with Handoff
• Transfer presentations with the Finder
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcut symbols

Add live video in Keynote on Mac

You can add a live video from your Mac’s internal camera to a slide. You can also use an iPad, iPhone, or other external camera as a live video source. During a presentation, the live video plays only when the slide it’s on appears. You can turn the live video source on and off at any time.

Important: External cameras or devices must be connected to your Mac with a cable to record live video. During a multipresenter slideshow, only the cameras or devices connected to the host’s computer can be used as live video sources. To learn more about multipresenter slideshows, see Play a slideshow with multiple presenters .

You can use multiple live videos sources in your presentation. Keynote uses the camera on your Mac as the default source, but you can also connect an iPhone or iPad to your computer to share its screen on a slide. You can also use an external digital camera to shoot live video.

If you want to use an iPhone, iPad, or digital camera as a live video source, connect them to your Mac with a cable.

A live video from your Mac’s internal camera appears on the slide.

Select the source you want in the menu near the bottom of the Add a Live Video Source window. You can also change the source’s name and thumbnail. Click the Add button.

Edit the look of a live video

Click the live video on the slide to select it.

Zoom the camera in or out: Drag the Scale slider right to zoom in and left to zoom out.

Change the shape of a live video: Click the menu next to Mask, then select the size and shape you want.

Reshape the corners of a live video: Increase the number in the Corner Radius box to make the corners rounder, or decrease it to sharpen them.

Remove or change the background of a live video

To customize the background, add any of the following background styles:

A transparent background: To remove the background from the live video, click the pop-up menu, then select No Fill.

A color designed to match your theme: Click the color well next to the Background checkbox, then select a color.

Any color: Click the pop-up menu and choose Color, then click the color wheel to open the Colors window, where you can select any color.

A two-color gradient: Click the pop-up menu and choose Gradient, then use the color controls to select colors. Click the left side of each color well to open a palette of colors that match the theme; click the color wheel on the right to open the Colors window, where you can choose any color. Use the controls to the right of the color wheels to change the angle and direction of the gradient.

A custom gradient: Click the pop-up menu and choose Advanced Gradient, then click the color stops below the fill bar to choose colors. You can drag the color stops and use the other controls to change the blend, angle, and direction of the gradient.

An image: Click the pop-up menu and choose Image, or choose Advanced Image if you want to add a tint to the image. Click Choose, navigate to an image, select it, then click Insert. To change how the image fills the background, click the pop-up menu above the Choose button, then choose an option:

Original Size: Places the image without altering its original dimensions. To resize the image, drag the Scale slider.

Stretch: Resizes the image to fit the Live Video’s dimensions, which might change the image’s proportions.

Tile: Repeats the image in the Live Video’s background. To resize the image, drag the Scale slider.

Scale to Fill: Makes the image larger or smaller to leave no space around the image.

Scale to Fit: Resizes the image to fit the Live Video’s dimensions, but maintains the image’s proportions.

If you choose Advanced Image, use the color well or color wheel to select a tint color. Adding a tint makes the image more transparent.

Use a different live video source

You can change the sources connected to a live video object on your slide if you have more than one set up in your presentation.

Click the Source button, then select a new source from the menu.

To dismiss the menu, click away from it.

Edit or delete live video sources

Click to select the live video on the slide.

Move the pointer over a source in the menu, then click the disclosure arrow that appears.

Do one of the following:

Edit a live video source: Select Edit Source, make the changes you want in the window, then click Save.

Delete a live video source: Select Delete Source, then click Delete.

Play or pause live video

To turn a live video source on or off, do any of the following:

When the slideshow is not playing: Click View > Show Live Video Preview in the menu at the top of your screen. Use the controls to turn the live video on or off.

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Apple keynote: how to make an interactive presentation..

Although we have all heard of Powerpoint as a powerful tool for presentations, I believe that after using the Apple keynote, I have also learned that it can be used to create impressive and engaging presentations.

In this story I’m going to show you how we can create and Deliver a Killer Keynote Presentation using Keynote

Set it up correctly :

Start Keynote, then choose a Theme . Choosing an appropriate theme can save you time and effort in redefining styles, backgrounds, and image formatting.

Planning your content :

The Slide is the core component of Keynote, so it’s best to view your interactive piece as a series of small, slide-sized chunks. If you want to tell an interactive narrative, you’ll want to write it one slide at a time in words, images, video, or short animations.

Create your content :

The first page will be a title slide , so write a good welcome text ,Also use simplify charts and graphs to present your data,Always try to put points in further interactive way so that viewer can understand and grasp the slides veritably and fluently. it'll also helps to make the bystander always stick with the slide.

Short animations :

• On the slide, click to select the object you want to animate.
• In the Animate sidebar, click the Animate tab.
• Click Add an Effect, then select an animation.
• To set animation options such as the duration and direction of the animation, use the controls that appear.(Start Transition,Delay)

A Good Animation can help make a PowerPoint presentation more dynamic, and help make information more memorable. The most common types of animation effects include entrances and exits. You can also add sound to increase the intensity of your animation effects.

Presentation experts recommend using animations and sound effects sparingly. Animation can be useful in making a presentation more dynamic, and help to emphasize points, but too much animation can be distracting. Do not let animation and sound take the focus away from what you are saying.

Present it! :

Go ahead — press Play and test out your presentation. Everything should work as you’d expect, and you can press Escape to exit. Save your Presentation to iCloud, then open it on your iPad, and everything will work just the same there.

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November 16, 2023

You have some great tips. I also appreciate the paragraph about using sounds and animations sparingly. It never fails when I introduce Keynote to students, that their first presentation has sounds and animations for everything. Thank you for sharing, Keynote is one of my favorite apps.

November 22, 2023

There's nothing like a great, well-thought-out Keynote. Thanks for sharing your step-by-step guide.

November 30, 2023

Another great tips would be to use purposeful animation. If your an explaining how gravity work, using the anvil composition to have an object (or even the word GRAVITY) fall for the sky and land in a smoke dust deliver a message out the topic. And you are right to use is sparingly, use it to gain focus, to surprise you listener.

Great topic and explanation!

December 01, 2023

Hi Satyajit

Who doesn't love keynote? Thank you for the reminders on creating a presentation. You will have to share one you have created!

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