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Click a hyperlink that opens a webpage, email message, or file. To resume the

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presentation, click the Keynote icon in the Dock.

Press any of the following keys to advance to the next slide:
Shift–Down Arrow, Shift–Page Down, or Right Bracket (])

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Press any of the following keys to advance to the next build:
N, Space bar, Return, Right Arrow, Down Arrow, Shift–Right Arrow, or Page Down

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Press any of the following keys to go back to the beginning of all builds on the
current slide, or to the previous slide if there are no builds:
Left Arrow, Up Arrow, P, Delete, Page Up, or Shift–Up Arrow

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If object builds have played on the current slide before pressing any of these keys or
key combinations, the slideshow is returned to the beginning of the slide, the point
before any object builds have played. If the slideshow is already at that point (or if
there are no object builds on the current slide), pressing any of these keys or key
combinations returns the slideshow to the beginning of the previous slide.

Press any of the following keys to go back to the previous build:
Shift–Left Arrow, Shift–Page Up, or Left Bracket ([)

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Here are ways to jump to a specific slide during the presentation:
If you know the number of the slide you want to jump to, type the number and press

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Return or Enter.
To locate a particular slide, use the slide switcher.

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To open the slide switcher, press equal sign (=), the plus sign (+), or hyphen (-), or type
a number.

To open the slide

switcher during a

presentation, press +, =,

or -, or type a number.

Jump to a slide by typing its
number and pressing Return.

To move forward or backward through the thumbnails, press the Right or Left Arrow key,
or drag the scroll bar below the slides’ thumbnail images.
To see the thumbnail for the first slide, press the Up Arrow key; to see the thumbnail for
the last slide, press the Down Arrow key.
To show a particular slide, click its thumbnail, or type the slide number and press Return.
To close the slide switcher without changing the current slide, press Escape.
Note: You can’t jump to a skipped slide (see “Skipping Slides” on page 42).

Here are ways to view keyboard shortcuts:
If you’re viewing the Presenter’s Display during a presentation, you can see which keys

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control the slideshow by pressing the Help, Question Mark (?), or Forward Slash (/) key.
To see a complete list of all Keynote keyboard shortcuts, choose Help > “

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Sending a

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Stopping a Presentation

There are several ways to stop a presentation, depending on how you’ve set it up.

If you want to prevent unauthorized viewers from stopping a presentation (for
example, if the presentation is playing in a kiosk or demonstration booth), you can set
up the slideshow so that the viewer is required to provide the name and password for
the administrator (or the user who is currently logged in) of the computer on which
the slideshow is running.

To stop a presentation during playback:
Press Escape, Q, Command-Period (.), or Period (.).

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If the presentation has a hyperlink that stops the presentation, click it. To learn about

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creating a hyperlink that stops the presentation, see “Creating a “Stop Slideshow”
Button Within Your Slideshow” on page 133.

To require an administrator name and password for stopping a presentation:

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Click Inspector in the toolbar, and then click the Document inspector button.

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In the Document inspector, click Document.

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Select the checkbox for “Require password to exit show.”

When stopping a presentation that requires a password, just type the name and
password of the computer’s administrator (or the user who is currently logged in) in
the fields that appear after you try to stop the presentation using any of the methods
described above.

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