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Keynote keyboard shortcuts

Slides, text, objects, and presenting with Apple's presentation app on a Mac.

86 shortcuts Mac checked September 14, 2026

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This app has a Mac catalog in Shortivo. No other operating system is published for it yet.

Everything Clipboard Comments and review Editing Files and printing Formulas and data Paragraphs and lists Presenting Selection Tabs and windows Text formatting View and zoom
Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Open the theme chooser Anywhere Mac CmdN Source
Open a presentation Anywhere Mac CmdO Source
Save the presentation Anywhere Mac CmdS Source
Save the presentation under a new name Anywhere Mac OptionShiftCmdS Source
Duplicate the presentation Anywhere Mac ShiftCmdS Source
Print the presentation Anywhere Mac CmdP Source
Close the window Anywhere Mac CmdW Source
Enter full screen view Anywhere Mac CtrlCmdF Source
Zoom in on the slide Slide canvas Mac ShiftCmd> Source
Zoom out of the slide Slide canvas Mac ShiftCmd< Source
Open the settings window Anywhere Mac Cmd, Source
Return to actual size Slide canvas Mac Cmd0 Source
Fit the slide in the window Slide canvas Mac OptionCmd0 Source
Show the rulers Slide canvas Mac CmdR Source
Show or hide the toolbar Anywhere Mac OptionCmdT Source
Show or hide the inspector sidebars Anywhere Mac OptionCmdI Source
Show or hide the object list Anywhere Mac ShiftCmdL Source
Enter or leave slide layout editing Anywhere Mac ShiftCmdE Source
Undo the last action Anywhere Mac CmdZ Source
Redo the last action Anywhere Mac ShiftCmdZ Source
Quit Keynote Anywhere Mac CmdQ Source
Go to a specific slide Anywhere Mac CtrlCmdG Source
Use the selected text for Find Editing text Mac CmdE Source
Scroll to the selection Anywhere Mac CmdJ Source
Show the Fonts window Editing text Mac CmdT Source
Show the Colors window Anywhere Mac ShiftCmdC Source
Bold the selected text Editing text Mac CmdB Source
Italicize the selected text Editing text Mac CmdI Source
Underline the selected text Editing text Mac CmdU Source
Make the font bigger Editing text Mac Cmd Source

About Keynote and its shortcuts

Keynote is Apple's presentation application, and it follows macOS conventions so closely that much of its keyboard is the system's. What is its own covers slide navigation while building, object arrangement, and the controls that run a show, including the presenter display.

Keynote is Mac only here, and the iPad version is a different application. Some commands depend on the view you are in, and others only exist while a presentation is playing.

Where the Keynote keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Keynote. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Keynote, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task