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Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Start with an Apple-designed theme and add text, images, charts, tables, and shapes with just a few taps. Draw and write with Apple Pencil on iPad, or use your finger. Bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. Add live video to your slideshow and appear right on your slides in remote presentations, how-to videos, and lectures. Confidently present to your audience from anywhere, in person or virtually, and take turns controlling a presentation in multi-presenter slideshows. Collaborate with others at the same time • With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a presentation at the same time on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and even on a PC • Share your document publicly or with specific people, see who’s currently in the presentation with you, and view other people’s cursors to follow their edits • See a list of recent changes in collaborative presentations, including when people join, comment, and make edits • Available for presentations stored in iCloud or in Box Get started quickly • Choose from over 40 Apple-designed themes to give your presentations a beautiful start or create a quick draft by starting with a text outline • Use the slide navigator to quickly skim through your presentation, add new slides, and reorder slides • Get quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options • Import and edit Microsoft PowerPoint presentations • Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID or Face ID on supported devices Create stunning presentations • Easily change slide layouts and backgrounds • Use the built-in camera to add live video right on your slides • Engage your audience with interactive charts and chart animations • Enhance your presentations with a library of over 700 editable shapes • Quickly add your photos and videos from the Photos app using the Media Browser • Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos • Easily remove image backgrounds • Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful • Edit down to the pixel with rulers and alignment guides Cinema-quality animations • Beautiful cinematic slide transitions and impressive text and object animations • Magic Move effect effortlessly animates and morphs graphics • Emphasis builds let you add impact with one click • See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides Present to your audience • Customizable presenter display • Rehearse a presentation with current slide, presenter notes, and timer all in one view • Present on an external display or projector, or stream wirelessly using AirPlay and Apple TV • Use multi-presenter slideshows to let participants take turns controlling a shared presentation from their own device • Easily access the slide navigator, keyboard shortcuts, live video sources, or multi-presenter slideshow controls while presenting • Highlight with Apple Pencil or with your finger while presenting on iPad • Control your slideshow from iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch • Create self-running, interactive shows for kiosks and displays iCloud • Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your presentations from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and from a Mac or PC browser at iCloud.com • Keynote automatically saves your presentations as you make changes Share a copy of your work • Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, movies, and image files • Use AirDrop to send your presentation to anyone nearby • Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail or Messages Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.

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• Advance your slides hands-free with the double tap gesture on supported Apple Watch models. (Requires watchOS 11) • See HDR images and movies in greater dynamic range on supported devices. (Requires iOS 18 or iPadOS 18) • Squeeze Apple Pencil Pro to quickly switch tools, line weights, and colors. • Use the new document browser to easily create a new presentation or find a recent one. (Requires iOS 18 or iPadOS 18) • Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.

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When I first got this iPad, I thought Keynote was just one of those useless apps that just happens to appear on your device once you get it. Then one day I decided to try it out; and believe me, I was wrong. It’s awesome!!! I do like everything on it. But there was one day I did do a presentation on Keynote, and there is one thing that I needed to do for it that you can do on Keynote. That was to remove background on videos. You can remove background perfectly fine on photos. Why not on videos? It’s just like a photo, but it captures movement and sound. so my one and only request of this amazing and functional app is that it can remove background on videos. and this word REALLYE the best app ever if it was easier to use your finger and/or Apple Pencil and draw on the presentation. I later found out that there is a way to do that, but I would appreciate it if I could access the drawing toolbox a bit easier.

When I got my iPad, I saw this app all the time and I thought, “ Why do they put this app on here, I don’t think we would need it.” ZThen, it was getting closer to my dads sisters birthday. She took care of us when my mom was in the hospital and spent nearly all her money on us. I thought she really did something really special for everything she did so I decided I would look through the apps that I’ve never been on and I came up to the Keynote app.I tried it out and I saw that you could use by and I decided that I would you know just kinda like put some nice birthday stuff on there. Put a nice happy birthday song and have some nice note her husband had some things I wanted to say to her you know romance, so we decided that he could pick some poems on there. Then there can my uncle/my aunt which is the birthday girls brother. And he said what are you doing for the a lot of my iPad when I was on keto and I told him that I was really making a surprise for my aunt. Let’s call her candy. My uncle also wanted to do something so he said let’s go get some balloons and cake. Then in the evening of her birthday we got the cake from Maya and the balloons from a party place and the things you like the most was the presentation on keynote. It made her super happy.

Ive been doing family writing/presentations and i was looking for an app. I was at school, and they asked me to download keynote. I saw it on my page on my iPad at home, and since I knew how good it was, I went on and downloaded it. With normal apps like this, there would be ads, interruptions, and other things to get you off task. But with this there are 0 ads, 0 interruptions, and 0 of all the other bad stuff. It was easy to add pictures and texts, the selection of next slides make it easy, The only thing I would add is putting the video in the presentation. Like not a link. So the next slide I could just press play and choose the size of the video so I could maybe have some notes on the side or something like that. Another this is different colored texts and fonted texts. Overall amazing app, I will recommend this to my family members. Thanks for reading my review!

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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

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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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Presentations that stand out. Beautifully.

With its powerful tools and dazzling effects, Keynote makes it easy to create stunning and memorable presentations, and comes included with most Apple devices. Use Apple Pencil on your iPad to create diagrams or illustrations that bring your slides to life. And with real‑time collaboration, your team can work together, whether they’re on Mac, iPad, iPhone, or a PC.

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Present your story. Your way.

Keynote sets the stage for an impressive presentation. A simple, intuitive interface puts important tools front and center, so everyone on your team can easily add beautiful charts, edit photos, and incorporate cinematic effects. And Rehearse Mode lets you practice on the go, with the current or next slide, notes, and clock — all in one view.

Start with a gorgeous layout.

Choose from over 30 eye‑catching themes that instantly give your presentation a professional look. Or create your own slide designs, background images, and page‑by‑page customization.

Create next-level animations.

Add drama to your presentation with more than 30 cinematic transitions and effects. Make your words pop by adding textures, color gradients, and even photos — with just a tap. And animate objects along a path using Apple Pencil or your finger on your iPhone or iPad.

Make every slide spectacular.

Choose from over 700 Apple-designed shapes, galleries, math equations, and charts. Take a photo or scan a document with your iPhone, and Continuity Camera can send it straight to Keynote on your Mac.

What’s new in Keynote.

Learn about everything you can do in Keynote

Add live video feeds to any slide.

Appear in a window, right on your slides, with a picture-in-picture display during remote presentations. Or include a live feed of your iPhone or iPad screen to show off apps.

Present with your team. Seamlessly.

For slideshows with multiple presenters, you can now take turns controlling a single deck — from anywhere — on Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in Keynote.

Embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo, then play them right in your presentations, without the need to download or open the video in a media player. *

Present over video conference. Like a pro.

Play a slideshow in its own window so you can access other apps while you present. You can view your presenter notes, upcoming slides, and navigation in a separate window as well.

Outline your presentation. Easier.

With outline view for iPhone and iPad, quickly jot down your thoughts, restructure ideas, and move concepts from slide to slide. Then switch to slide view and start designing.

Turn handwriting into text. Magically.

With Scribble for iPadOS and Apple Pencil, your handwritten words will automatically be converted to typed text. Take notes, edit a presentation, or annotate text quickly.

Present like never before. From anywhere.

With Keynote, presenting remotely can be just as seamless as presenting in person. Say goodbye to saying “Next slide, please” — now multiple people can present together, even remotely, with each person taking control of their section of the deck. Add a live video feed of yourself to any slide for a picture-in-picture experience. Or when presenting on your Mac, include a live feed of your iPhone or iPad screen to walk through your apps. You can even play a slideshow in its own window, so you can simultaneously access your notes and other apps.

Any presentation. Any device. Anytime.

You don’t work in one place on just one device. The same goes for Keynote. Work seamlessly across all your Apple devices. The slides you create using a Mac or iPad will look the same on an iPhone or web browser — and vice versa.

You can also work on presentations stored on iCloud or Box using a PC.

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Create and present together. Even when apart.

Work together in the same presentation, from across town or across the world. You can see your team’s edits as they make them — and they can watch as you make yours, too. When presenting as a team, you can also take turns controlling a single deck from anywhere.

Use Apple Pencil when inspiration strikes.

Add color, illustrations, and handwritten comments for more beautiful presentations with Apple Pencil on your iPad.

Plays well with Office.

Teaming up with someone who uses Microsoft PowerPoint? Keynote makes it a great working relationship. You can save Keynote documents as PowerPoint files. Or import and edit PowerPoint documents right in Keynote.

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I look forward to Apple keynote presentations and product launches because, as a communication specialist, it’s hard for me to find a better role model for creating, designing, and delivering a presentation. The keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 offers yet another opportunity to learn fresh and effective techniques that you can and should apply to your presentations.

Stick to one theme per slide. The designers behind Apple’s presentation slides once told me they stick to one theme per slide. Don’t try to cram too much content—too many ideas—on one slide. That goes for statistics, too. For example, think about how many slides you would create if you delivered the following idea: “The developer program is incredibly vibrant. We have over six million registered developers. Demand for this show has never been greater. We sold out in just over a minute [71 seconds].” Most people would put the two statistics, 6 million and 71 seconds , on one slide. Apple CEO, Tim Cook, had two slides. The first one simply read: 6 million. The second slide read: 71 seconds. The second slide also had the words “Sold Out” in red (see below). If a statistic is important enough for you to deliver and you want your audience to recall the data point, then it deserves its own slide.

Make data visual. Early in the presentation Cook announced that Apple customers have downloaded 50 billion apps from the App Store. Instead of simply putting the number [50 billion] on the screen, as most presenters would do, Apple designers created a visual display of the data. Since the statistic had a lot of zeroes they decided it would be impressive to fill the screen with it: 50,000,000,000.  But they didn't stop there. If you look closely at the slide (below) you can see that the zeroes are actually images of apps. Data is more memorable when it’s visually interesting.

Always avoid bullet points. There are no bullet points on Apple slides. There are images and text (sometimes on the same slide), but no bullet points. Bullets are the least effective way of transmitting information on a slide. It simply adds too much clutter to the screen and forces the audience to read too many words as the presenter is talking. Most people can’t listen to someone speak, read text at the same time, and expect to retain anything!

Share the stage. Tim Cook shares the stage with his executive team, designers, partners, and developers. Cook introduced five other speakers in the two-hour period and one of them, Apple senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, took the stage twice. Designer Jony Ive didn't physically join Cook on stage, but appeared on a video to explain the design philosophy behind the new iOS 7. Too many CEOs and founders think they have to carry the presentation or pitch themselves. Think of your presentation as a Broadway show complete with sets (slides), props (demos), and a cast of characters.

Stick to the 10-minute rule. Cook introduced his first “guest speaker,” the co-founder of Anki, Boris Sofman, at exactly 10 minutes into his presentation. The 10-minute rule is a technique I recommend to every presenter, but I must give credit to the person who inspired it— University of Washington researcher, John Medina. Medina once told me that no matter how engaging you are, your audience will begin to tune out of your conversation after about 10 minutes. That doesn't mean you can’t reign them back in, but if you drone on and on you will most likely lose their attention.

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Apple does a nice job of building in “soft breaks” to maintain the attention of the audience. Cook didn't speak for much more than ten minutes at a time. He would break up his slides with another speaker or a video. All the Apple speakers stuck to the rule. During his introduction of the new operating system, OS X Mavericks, Federighi included two demonstrations, both lasting under 10 minutes and both about 10 minutes apart. Although Federighi held the stage for more than 10 minutes, he provided soft breaks and kept the flow moving nicely: Slides-demo-slides-demo-slides.

Have a chip on your shoulder every now and then. Apple vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, may have received the loudest applause when he revealed a radical redesign of Apple’s desktop for professional users, the Mac Pro. In a clear jab to critics who say Apple has lost its innovation edge, Schiller said, “Can’t innovate anymore, my ass!” Your audience appreciates passion and emotion once in a while.

Create a Twitter-friendly headline and repeat it twice. My favorite communication technique is what I call the Twitter-friendly headline. Whenever you launch a new product or service, clearly summarize it in one short sentence, preferably under 140 characters so it’s easily tweeted. Apple executives do this for every product announcement. The new iOS 7 was no exception. Twice in the presentation Tim Cook said, “iOS 7 is the biggest change to iOS since the iPhone.” Now take a look at a few tweets from popular media brands:

@Mashable: Apple unveils iOS 7, ‘biggest change since the original iPhone.’ @HuffPostTech: A look at iOS 7, the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone. @USATODAY: Tim Cook calls iOS7 the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone.

The Twitter headline works every time. Create one.

Practice. A lot. A 20-minute demo and product launch can take up to 250 hours at Apple. That includes the time spent on creating the story line, designing slides, testing the demo, and on-stage rehearsals. Apple’s slides are brilliant and the presenters are smooth and ‘effortless’ because speakers and designers spend a lot of time behind the scenes to get everything just right.

Show your team some love. It always helps to acknowledge your team. Cook lavishes praise on his team in nearly every public appearance. He concluded the WWDC ’13 keynote by saying, “I’d like to thank everyone at Apple who worked so hard to create them [new products]. I get to work with the most talented and creative people on earth and it’s a joy to serve with them.”   Express your heartfelt admiration for the team as much as possible.

Make your presentations public. Within two hours of the keynote Apple made the video of the entire two-hour presentation available on its website. It’s not buried on the site, either. It’s on the home page. Presentations are now part of your brand’s story and marketing message. Post the slides on your website and on a sharing site such as Slideshare.net. The slides bring your brand story to life.

Don’t let your ideas die because they were delivered poorly. I’m not suggesting that you copy everything about an Apple presentation (look, colors, style, font) to the letter. I am recommending that you copy the techniques in Apple’s keynote; techniques that are based on proven and effective presentation methods.

Carmine Gallo is the communications coach for the world’s most admired brands. He is a popular keynote speaker and author of several books, including the international bestsellers The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs . His new book, The Apple Experience , is the first book to reveal the secrets behind the stunning success of the Apple Retail Store. Carmine has recently launched an eLearning course titled, New Rules of Persuasive Presentations . Follow Carmine on Facebook or Twitter .

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Master Slides and Themes in Keynote

Choosing File > New in Keynote opens a theme chooser; a collection of templates that have distinctive design styles. Although you might want to start with a blank canvas there is no option to do so. Even the most basic themes Black, and White, are a collection of Master Slides for title and subtitles, title and bullets which should be applied to slides as you build your collection. It’s no accident that Themes have to be applied, because using Master Slides is the best way to enjoy a pain free life using Keynote.

A typical business presentation might contain a Title & Subtitle slide, followed by Title & Bullet slides, with a few Photo slides mixed in. If you build your presentation using those master slides from the Improv theme, then later you need to swap the theme to Artisan, or better still your custom theme, by simply clicking the Change Theme button in the Document Inspector automatically swaps your presentation to the appropriate master slides in the new Theme.

To make your own theme create a presentation from a theme that most closely matches the design you want. Then modify the fonts, colours, backgrounds on all the Master Slides in your presentation; you can even add a company logo to every slide master too. When the design is complete choose File > Save Theme and followed the onscreen instructions to save your design as a theme.

Using Outline Mode in Keynote

When building a presentation you can use one four options for viewing slides in Keynote; Navigator, Slide Only, Light Table, and Outline. Navigator is the default view and works well for most situations, but for sketching out ideas, and sequencing your thoughts try Outline view. It presents slides in a list and bullet form.

To move to Outline view, click the View button in the Toolbar, a pop-up menu appears, from it choose Outline. To evaluate the usefulness of the outline view try the following. In the outline pane click next to the slide icon and type ‘Point 1’. Press return, and a new slide appears. Press the Tab key, the slide indents, becoming a bullet on the slide ‘Point 1’.

To outdent the bullet press Shift-Tab. Type ‘Point 2’.

Pressing return creates a new line at the same indent level as the line above it. At the top level this means pressing return creates new slides, and Tab and Shift-Tab can be used to alter the hierarchy of any bullets. Bullets and Slides can be sequenced by dragging either their bullet or slide icon up or down the Outline pane.

Once you’ve settled on a basic outline you can apply a new Theme to your presentation and attend to the look and feel of your work.

Layer options for Master Slides in Keynote

After recommending that using master slides is the way to go, you’ll need to be aware of two concepts to fully utilise them. To experiment create a new presentation. Choose File > New and from the template chooser double-click any theme.

In the open presentation click the View button in the Toolbar and select Edit Master Slides. When working on masters a blue bar appears at the bottom of the slide pane. You can modify the existing slide elements or add new ones.

The text, and image boxes on Master Slides are formatted as placeholders. This means you’ll need to replace their contents with your own words or pictures when working on standard slides. However if you want to add a logo to a master slide, it should not be a placeholder. Fortunately by default images placed in to Keynote are not placeholders. You’ll probably want the logo to be the top most object in the layer order. This can be done using the Arrange tab of the Format inspector. That covers the first concept. The second is to allow objects on slides to layer with master.

If you add a photo to a slide and find that it sits on top of a logo placed on the Master, you won’t be able to move the photo behind the logo using layer options unless you do the following. In the Edit Master Slides mode click the required slide thumbnail. In the Format inspector, labelled Master Slide Layout select the Allow objects on slides to layer with master.

Apply Transitions in Keynote

Transitions are the animations that can be applied to slides. They can add drama, a sense of fun, or set the pace for a presentation. For example, to make hard hitting points you might choose Grid, for a showing a series of fine art images Dissolve would work well. However for greater level impact change the transition timings from their default. Use faster options to be more hard hitting and go much slower for contemplative presentations on fine art, or meditation.

Choose Play > Play Slideshow to test out Transitions to make sure you’ll hold your audience’s attention. To change the Transitions on all your slides in one go, select all the slide thumbnails. In Navigator view, click on or near a thumbnail and press Command A. With all the thumbnails selected you can use the Animate inspector to change the type and timings of the selected slides.

One cautionary note, if you’re planning a presentation for playback via webinar software, regardless of whether you’re using Keynote or Powerpoint, animations do not stream well. So you might want a second version of your presentation formatted for webinar use with the animations removed.   

Control read on in Keynote

Builds are animations that are applied to objects on slides. When an object is selected the inspector displays three tabs, Build In, Animation, and Build Out. Using builds is a great way to control presentations, in particular bullet points. If a slide is presented to an audience with all the bullet points revealed as the slide opens, the presenter has no way to prevent the audience reading the entire slide; reading on.

Setting a Build In for bullets is relatively easy. Click to select the Text Box containing the bullets. In the Animate Inspector select the Build In tab and select the desired animation; Typewriter is one you might consider. To complete the build, in the Inspector change the Delivery to By Bullet. Now, when you preview the slide the bullets only appear on click.

Builds and animations can be applied to text, graphics, and photos. The order in which you apply the animations becomes the order in which they play, this order can be changed, except on bullets. Click the Build Order button at the bottom of the Inspector. A floating window appears, dragging a build element up or down the window changes the build order. The Build Order window can also be used to set builds to run automatically either with a preceding build or after it.

Connection lines for flow charts in Keynote

Explaining processes using flow charts is often a great way to illustrate matters. Keynote comes loaded with all the shape objects you’ll need to create bubbles, squares, triangles, and so on. Clicking the Shape icon in the toolbar opens a pop-up containing all the shapes. Clicking one will place it on a slide.

Double-clicking a shape allows you to add text directly inside the object. Then the usual formatting options can be applied to modify the shape as required. So far much of this process is pretty intuitive, but resist the temptation to use the line options found when clicking the Shape icon to connect the elements of your chart. It is better to use Connection Lines.

Control-click the Toolbar in Keynote. A pop-up menu appears, choose Customize Toolbar. A vast set of icons appear. Locate the Connect icon and drag it to a space on the Toolbar. Then click Done to close the Customize Toolbar options. To apply a connection line you’ll need to select two Shape objects on a slide. To follow along add a couple of Shapes to a slide, and then select them. Now click the Connect icon in the Toolbar. The Shapes are now connected, select just one of the shapes and drag it round the screen. The connection line remains connected.

Like shapes, connection lines can be formatted to change their colour and weight, you can even add arrow heads and animations.

Push Keynote presentations to iCloud

You can develop a Keynote presentation exclusively on OS X, iOS, or on the iCloud web browser  version. As stated in the introduction the Mac OS X version is the most capable and feature rich version of the application. None of OS X features are lost when a presentation is saved to iCloud Drive, but the ability to edit via the browser or iOS versions will have a few limitations. With that said, if you were building a report presentation on topics that required a site visit, for example, production line improvements in a factory, or a school report on a castle, you may want to add photos taken on your iPhone.

Ahead of the visit to wherever, you might want to create a draft presentation containing image place holders and save it to iCloud Drive . Open the presentation on your iOS Device and go to the image placeholders and tap the plus symbol in the bottom right of the placeholder, this opens a new screen with links to your Photos library, but at the bottom of the screen you’ll see a text button, Take Photo or Video. Tapping this for the first time may invoke a request for Keynote to access your photos. Accepting this let’s you take photos from directly inside Keynote adding them automatically to the placeholders in Keynote.

Using rehearsal mode in Keynote

Keynote’s rehearsal tools help you to work out the overall timing for your presentation. Rehearsing might highlight parts of the script that don’t work when read aloud. Also slides containing large media files, such as video, may take a couple of seconds to load. If you’ve not aware of this, come the big day, you might be unnerved when you click or tap to play a video and nothing happens in the instant you expected, so you click again and advance to the next slide.

In rehearsal mode a coloured bar appears across the top of the screen. It displays as a hatched amber line as a slide or media loads and then green when Keynote is ready to advance. The coloured bar, or Ready to Advance Indicator, appears on the presenter display too.

Slideshows can be delivered on dual displays; one being a presenter display and the other the slides for the audience. Here’s how to configure the Rehearsal or Presenter display.

In Keynote, choose Play > Customize Presenter Display. A window appears that lets you use checkboxes to enable the features you require. Note that the timer options can be set to show time remaining, an ideal option when working to a fixed schedule. You can also drag and scale presenter elements such as Current Slide and Next Slide to suit your needs.

Remote control and Keynote

When you want to play a presentation from a Mac, but don’t want to stand over the computer to click through the slides, you can use the Keynote app for iOS as a remote control. To do this you’ll need Keynote installed and open on your Mac and an iOS device such as an iPhone. Furthermore both devices have to be on the same WiFi network , this could be computer-to-computer. If both devices are on the same network you’re all set to follow the next steps. To learn more about setting up a WiFi connection you can review Help on your Mac and on your iOS device.

On Keynote for your iOS device tap the iPhone-shaped icon at the upper left of the screen to open the remote options. On the Welcome to Keynote Remote popover tap continue. The iOS device searches for the Mac running Keynote.

On your Mac choose Keynote > Preferences. Click the Remotes tab. If both devices are on the same network the Remotes preferences will show your iOS device. Click Enable and then Link. The iOS device displays a passcode that also appears on your Mac. On your Mac, click to confirm you want to link devices. Once linked Keynote for iOS displays a large Play button. Tap the Play button and you’ll be controlling your presentation remotely.

Skip slides bin Keynote

As deadlines loom, you may find your presentation doesn’t fit the allocated time. There is no need to delete slides to trim your Keynote. It is better to skip slides, and perhaps speed up a few transitions, rather than start to delete parts of your work. This suggestion can be expanded to trying to work with only one Keynote presentation per topic. For example, a marketing presentation might be designed to run for 10 minutes, but it might also need to fit to an occasional five minute slot. Skipping slides makes an efficient workflow because come the day slides need updating with new product shots, or a new company logo, only one Keynote presentation needs to be updated rather than several.

In Navigator view, select the slides you want to skip. Control-click any of the selected slides. From the shortcut menu, choose Skip Slide. Skipped slides appear as thin bars in the Navigator. To switch off skipping, control-click a skipped slide and from the shortcut menu, choose Don’t Skip Slide.

Slides can also be skipped in Outline and Light Table view too. In Light Table view skipped slides appear greyed out, unless the Hide skipped slides box is selected; found in the bottom left of the document window.

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