A windowed play session mode in Keynote

've found two solutions for Keynote presentations in Zoom - sounds like several folks have posted here about wanting to combine Keynote with Zoom. In the first, you can show your slides. In the second solution below, you can run your Keynote presentation inside Zoom.

1) If you have Keynote versions up through 10.0, you can't run Keynote in Zoom but you can show slides. The easiest solution I've found is to export my Keynote to PDF and, when doing so, selecting the "builds" option. Now I can show my entire presentation within Zoom by doing a share screen with the PDF. While this does lose the transitions and animations, you can show your full presentation, bullet by bullet in the sequence you've set up.

2) With version 10.1 of Keynote, Apple has now made it possible to run Keynote presentations within Zoom! Hooray! This runs the presentation in all its glory, with every beautiful slide transition, animation, and video - you're showing the full Keynote experience within Zoom.

• Launch Keynote.
• In Keynote's Play menu, select "Play Slideshow in Window."
  • I resize the window to remove all the black areas around my presentation.
• Now open up Zoom.
• Select "Share Screen"
  • Make sure to click the "Optimize Screen Share for Video Clip" if you have videos and animations in your Keynote 10.1 file, and then
• Click the blue "Share" button.

Voila! You're in business.

Having a windowed view would be a life-saver for me. I am currently exporting as HTML which has the advantage of letting me browse my slides in a sidebar. However, it's slow to advance slides for some reason (and I'm using a brand-new 16" MBP w/32Gb ram).

PowerPoint's windowed view is nice, but having a second window that allows me to see the Presenter's Display would be even better if it allowed me to just share the windowed Display over Zoom, etc.

Please don't make me use PowerPoint!!!

Can you connect to a second display? If so you can have all of Zoom's interactive features and Keynote with presenter display too.

What works for me:

1. Have two displays in use and set as an extended desktop
2. Open your Keynote presentation but don't play yet
3. Start Zoom meeting
4. Connect to your Zoom meeting using a 2nd device - an iPhone or iPad is fine (watch out for feedback!)
5. In Zoom, Share Screen and select your Keynote presentation
6. In Zoom, click Participants and More... Chat to get floating windows for these functions as needed
7. Play your Keynote presentation
8. Check what is visible on your other device, if it is the presenter display switch slideshow and presenter display using the shortcut "x"
9. Customise presenter display to leave space for those floating windows from 5)
10. Admit your participants from the waiting room

It looks a lot more complex to read than it is to do!

I agree, it would be great to be able to do this without a second display connected. Also thank you for sharing the PPT tip - I use both and didn't know about that one - but I much prefer Keynote!

Hope that answers your question.

There is another way to do this.

Use the Advanced Sharing Option in Zoom:

And Set Up the Zoom Portion of Screen Frame before like this:

Of course Animations won't work in the manual way, But that's a quick work around I am planning to do tomorrow.

Yes. I just hit the same issue. And also just upgraded to Catalina so I don't have access to my older copy of PowerPoint any more. Silly that Keynote doesn't have a built in mode for this. I've read that you can also export as a Quicktime file and use that to page through the slides in Zoom.

Jorge's response to this is exactly right. Being able to present the slides in this "windowed" mode, rather than having it go to full screen, is what's needed if you want to share the presentation on a Zoom call or similar. Currently exporting the Keynote presentation to html and then opening that in a browser (and then sharing that browser tab in Zoom) is the work-around I'm using. I hope they fix/add this in Keynote.

This is a sloppy, inelegant workaround to an inherent Keynote problem. I want my Zoom presentations to be as slick, polished, and professional as they are when I present them live in session on a big screen. Exporting as HTML, or as a PDF, or one of these other workarounds is not that. When the slideshow is shared in Zoom this way, the browser/app window (including the path to where the HTML folder is located on my hard drive) is visible to the audience. At least with PPT windowed mode, there's only one minimal title bar across the top. But, of course, for those of us who've done this, the conversion from Keynote to PPT doesn't always execute... err, with the proper and intended results. Builds and animations don't always work, and it seems I always run into at least 1 or more font formatting problems. Come on now, this is 2020. We shouldn't have to beg for simple, fundamental functionality.

I agree ... Keynote, you need to step it up. Unfortunately, I am switching to PowerPoint to get done what I need done for max flexibility, client/ webinar participant experience and beautiful slides.

I am exporting slides as hi-res PNG image files and dropping the pics into full 1920x1280 PPT Slides.

It works; however should not be necessary.

Again, we all implore you, Apple team, to get this done and QUICKLY!

Thanks!

BH

My solution is to make use of Zoom's ability to share the screen of an iphone or ipad connected by a cable to the computer. I run the Keynote presentation on my phone, which lets me keep all the Zoom functionality up on my computer screen. And it allows me to toggle between Keynote and a Mentimeter poll which I am running in Chrome.

I have the same problem. Even though I have two monitors Keynote takes up both when I press the play button. I found this on YouTube but it doesn't work for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx1Ysf_eozQ

I still can't see the participants window when in presentation mode.

Hope a fix comes soon.

I'm using High Sierra. Maybe the latest OS works better?