Take Control of Keynote

Deliver a Live Presentation

All your slides and animations have been honed to perfection, and you’re (almost) ready to deliver your presentation before a live audience. (If it won’t be delivered live, skip ahead to Create a Canned Presentation.) You could just click Play and hope for the best, but you’ll have much better results if you follow the steps in this chapter to customize the presenter display, rehearse your presentation, and set up your Mac to work with whatever display(s) you’ll be using.

This chapter also covers the mechanics of playing a presentation—things like how to go forward and backward, how to black out the screen, how to skip to an arbitrary slide, how to pop out of Keynote temporarily to demonstrate software or show a Web ...