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How do I prevent Keynote text boxes auto fitting the text to the box?

If there's overflowing text in a text box in Keynote 9 for Mac, how do I prevent Keynote from scaling down the size of the text?


I need the text in my presentation slides to be the same size. If there is too much text, I want to see the + at the bottom of the text box, not have Keynote shrink it. And there are situations that I can't increase the size of the text box - it is better for me to move overflowing text to the next slide.


Thanks for any help!

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 29, 2019 3:35 AM

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Posted on Nov 29, 2019 6:39 AM

Here's one I did earlier: Shrink text to fit


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Nov 29, 2019 6:09 PM in response to Gary Scotland

Thanks, Gary!


How did you discover that? Where is it documented? I couldn't find an answer. But my searching also didn't reveal the answer you just linked to.


Something that I noticed in my experimenting just now is that when I create my own text box, Keynote doesn't allow me to change the height of the box in the size box in Arrange Tools.


How do I prevent Keynote text boxes auto fitting the text to the box?

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