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Keynote User Guide for Mac

• 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
• Undo or redo changes
• Show or hide sidebars
• Quick navigation
• Change the working view
• Expand and zoom your workspace
• Customize the Keynote toolbar
• Change Keynote settings on Mac
• Touch Bar for Keynote
• Create a presentation using VoiceOver
• Add or delete slides
• Add and view presenter notes
• Reorder slides
• Group or ungroup slides
• Skip or unskip a slide
• Change the slide size
• Change a slide background
• Add a border around a slide
• Show or hide text placeholders
• Show or hide slide numbers
• Apply a slide layout
• Add and edit slide layouts
• Change a theme
• Add an image
• Add an image gallery
• Edit an image
• Add and edit a shape
• Combine or break apart shapes
• Draw a shape
• Save a shape to the shapes library
• Add and align text inside a shape
• Add 3D objects
• Add lines and arrows
• Animate, share, or save drawings
• Add video and audio
• Record audio
• Edit video and audio
• Add live video
• Set movie and image formats
• Position and align objects
• Use alignment guides
• Place objects inside a text box or shape
• Layer, group, and lock objects
• 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
• Select text
• Copy and paste text
• Use dictation to enter text
• Use accents and special characters
• Format a presentation for another language
• Use phonetic guides
• Use bidirectional text
• Use vertical text
• Change the font or font size
• Add bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough to text
• Change the color of text
• Change text capitalization
• Add a shadow or outline to text
• Intro to paragraph styles
• Apply a paragraph style
• Create, rename, or delete paragraph styles
• Update or revert a paragraph style
• Use a keyboard shortcut to apply a style
• Adjust character spacing
• Add drop caps
• Raise and lower characters and text
• Format fractions automatically
• Create and use character styles
• Format dashes and quotation marks
• Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text
• Set tab stops
• Format text into columns
• Adjust line spacing
• Format lists
• Add a highlight effect to text
• Add mathematical equations
• Add borders and rules (lines) to separate text
• Add or delete a table
• Select tables, cells, rows, and columns
• Add or remove rows and columns
• Move rows and columns
• Resize rows and columns
• Merge or unmerge cells
• Change the look of table text
• Show, hide, or edit a table title
• Change table gridlines and colors
• Use table styles
• Resize, move, or lock a table
• Add and edit cell content
• Format dates, currency, and more
• Create a custom cell format
• Highlight cells conditionally
• Format tables for bidirectional text
• Alphabetize or sort table data
• Calculate values using data in table cells
• Use the Formulas and Functions Help
• Add or delete a chart
• Change a chart from one type to another
• Modify chart data
• Move, resize, and rotate a chart
• Change the look of data series
• Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings
• Change the look of chart text and labels
• Add a chart border and background
• Use chart styles

Animate objects onto and off a slide

• Animate objects on a slide
• Change build order and timing
• Add transitions
• Present on your Mac
• Present on a separate display
• Present during a FaceTime call
• Use a remote
• Make a presentation advance automatically
• Require a password to exit a presentation
• Play a slideshow with multiple presenters
• Rehearse on your Mac
• Record presentations
• Check spelling
• Look up words
• Find and replace text
• Replace text automatically
• Set author name and comment color
• Highlight text
• Add and print comments
• 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
• 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
• Transfer files with AirDrop
• Transfer presentations with Handoff
• Transfer presentations with the Finder
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcut symbols

Get started with Keynote on Mac

Keynote makes it easy to create beautiful and engaging presentations with fun animations, interesting transitions, and professional polish.

Begin with a theme

Add photos, movies, and more

You can add objects such as photos, movies, shapes, and charts to your presentation. To add an object to your slide, click an object button in the toolbar , then select an object from the menu.

Bring your presentation to life with animations

Use slide transitions

Export your presentation

Play your presentation

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Add transitions between slides

Play a presentation

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How to activate "paste and match formatting" in power point on my mac.

I run power point on my mac but there are quite a few functionalities not active, like "paste and match formatting" and I don't know how to activate it.

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Hello I am Abdal and I would be glad to help you with your question. To activate the "Paste and Match Formatting" feature in PowerPoint for Mac, you can use the keyboard shortcut "Command + Option + Shift + V" after you have copied the text you want to paste. You can also access this feature by going to "Edit" menu and holding down the "Option" key while clicking "Paste". This will paste the copied text while maintaining the formatting of the slide or text box you are pasting it into. I hope this information helps. Regards, Abdal Help the next person who has this issue by indicating if this reply solved your problem. Click Yes or No below.

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It still does not work. I am trying to copy a power point presentation into another presentation but need the format to not change so that its not all mingled up.

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Hi Christian, Thanks for posting in the MS community. To better assist you, I would like to better understand this. -- Is the option grayed out? -- Does this issue happen to all PowerPoint files? -- Can you copy from Word, then paste and match formatting in PowerPoint? Also, see if office is up to date. If you have any questions, please let me know and I'll be glad to assist you further Best Regards, Daniel

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Do you mean

Paste > Keep Source Format?

If so where are you looking?

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Yes its greyed out and just don't know how to make it appear. I have latest update and version available, checked it.

I have a PP format and when I paste other slides that people send me into that presentation it just messes things up. It does not match. Copying from Word into PP gives me the paste and match option.

No change into designated format, so source format to match receiving format.

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Your paste options are context sensitive. When you paste something, a little button appears at the lower right corner of whatever you pasted. Click that button to see the available options for the pasted object.

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