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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
Make the font smaller Editing text Mac Cmd- Source
Make the text superscript Editing text Mac CtrlCmd Source
Make the text subscript Editing text Mac CtrlCmd- Source
Align the text to the left Editing text Mac Cmd{ Source
Center the text Editing text Mac Cmd| Source
Align the text to the right Editing text Mac Cmd} Source
Justify the text Editing text Mac OptionCmd| Source
Decrease the indent level Editing text Mac Cmd[ Source
Increase the indent level Editing text Mac Cmd] 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
Copy the paragraph style Editing text Mac OptionCmdC Source
Paste the selection Anywhere Mac CmdV Source
Paste the paragraph style Editing text Mac OptionCmdV Source
Paste and match the destination style Editing text Mac OptionShiftCmdV Source
Insert a nonbreaking space Editing text Mac OptionSpace Source
Insert a line break Editing text Mac ShiftReturn Source
Find text in the presentation Anywhere Mac CmdF Source
Find the next match Find window open Mac CmdG Source
Find the previous match Find window open Mac ShiftCmdG Source
Check spelling and grammar Anywhere Mac Cmd; Source
Add a comment to the selection Text, object or cell selected Mac ShiftCmdK Source
Show the next comment Anywhere Mac OptionCmdK 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

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