Keynote User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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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
Make a presentation advance automatically in Keynote on Mac
You can set your presentation to advance automatically, like a movie, with no interaction needed. You can also set it to play immediately when it’s opened, or to play continuously in a loop.
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation.
In the Document
sidebar, click the Document tab.Click the Presentation Type pop-up menu, choose Self-Playing.
You can adjust the controls next to Delay to modify the transition or build effects timing.
In Slideshow Settings in the sidebar, select any of the following playback options:
Automatically play upon open: The presentation begins playing immediately after it’s opened.
Loop slideshow: At the end of the slideshow, the presentation returns to the first slide.
Restart show if idle for: Use the up or down arrow to set the amount of idle time with no viewer interaction before a presentation returns to the first slide.
To play the presentation, click the slide you want to begin with in the slide navigator, then click
in the toolbar.
To change the presentation back to one that’s manually advanced by clicking a mouse or trackpad, or by pressing the Right Arrow or Left Arrow key, click the Presentation Type pop-up menu, then choose Normal.