Keynote User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new in Keynote 14.1
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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
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Highlight text in Keynote on Mac
You can highlight text in text boxes and in shapes. These highlights aren’t visible in printed presentations.
When multiple people are working on a presentation, each person’s highlights appear in a unique colour. To learn how to change your colour, see Set author name and comment colour.
Tip: If you want highlights that are visible in your final presentation, add a background colour to text in any colour. This type of highlight isn’t included with Keynote review tools.
Highlight text
Select the text you want to highlight.
Choose Insert > Highlight (from the Insert menu at the top of your screen).
You can’t highlight text in table cells, but you can add conditional highlighting to cells to change a cell’s appearance based on its value.
Add a comment to highlighted text
Move the pointer over the highlighted text.
Click “Add a comment”, then type your comment.
Click Done.
Remove a highlight
Move the pointer over the highlighted text, then click Delete.
If the Delete button doesn't appear, that means the highlight was added as colour behind the text. To remove it, remove the background colour.