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 colour 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
Use rulers in Keynote on Mac
You can show rulers to help you position and align objects, and hide the rulers when you don’t need them.
Show or hide rulers
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, click
in the toolbar, then choose Show Rulers or Hide Rulers.
Change ruler units
When you adjust a unit setting for rulers, it applies to all presentations. You can change the preference at any time, even if you have a presentation open.
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, choose Keynote > Settings (from the Keynote menu at the top of your screen), then click Rulers at the top of the settings window.
Click the Ruler Units pop-up menu, then choose an increment (Points, Centimetres or Inches).
To show the ruler marks as a percentage of the slide, select the “Display ruler units as percentage” tickbox.
Place zero at the centre of the slide
You can place 0 (zero) at the centre of the ruler, which means ruler units increase to the left and right.
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, choose Keynote > Settings (from the Keynote menu at the top of your screen), then click Rulers at the top of the settings window.
Select the “Place origin at centre of ruler” tickbox.
Show position coordinates
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, choose Keynote > Settings (from the Keynote menu at the top of your screen), then click Rulers at the top of the settings window.
Select the “Show size and position when moving objects” tickbox.