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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

18 actions and 18 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Use the selected text for Find Editing text Mac CmdE Source
Scroll to the selection Anywhere Mac CmdJ 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
Turn text or an object into a link Text or object selected Mac CmdK Source
Cut the selection Anywhere Mac CmdX Source
Copy the selection Anywhere Mac CmdC Source
Send the object to the back Object selected Mac ShiftCmdB Source
Bring the object to the front Object selected Mac ShiftCmdF Source
Send the object back one layer Object selected Mac OptionShiftCmdB Source
Bring the object forward one layer Object selected Mac OptionShiftCmdF Source
Group the selected objects Objects selected Mac OptionCmdG Source
Ungroup the selected objects Group selected Mac OptionShiftCmdG Source
Lock the selected objects Objects selected Mac CmdL Source
Unlock the selected objects Objects selected Mac OptionCmdL Source
Duplicate the object Object selected Mac CmdD Source
Mask or unmask the object Image selected Mac ShiftCmdM 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