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
- 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
Apply a slide layout in Keynote on Mac
To quickly change the look of a slide, you can apply a different slide layout to it. If you make changes to a slide format (like moving a text or image placeholder) and later want to use the original formatting, you can reapply the slide layout. Reapplying the slide layout won’t delete your content.
Apply a different slide layout
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation.
In the slide navigator, click to select a slide or select multiple slides.
In the Format
sidebar, click the Slide Layout button near the top.Select a different slide layout.
Tip: You can add a Layouts button to the toolbar, which gives you quick access to all slide layouts. To learn more, see Customize the toolbar.
Reapply a slide layout
You can reapply a slide layout so that text and media placeholders return to their default style and position, the slide background returns to its default color or image, and placeholder objects are shown or hidden as they were by default.
Note: If you’re sharing a presentation with others, you can’t reapply slide layouts.
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation.
In the slide navigator, click to select a slide or select multiple slides.
Control-click the selected slide, then choose Reapply Layout to Slide.