A windowed play session mode in Keynote

I think my solution is a little simpler: sharing the screen sharing app in Zoom. Only one Zoom session required. (But you do see the screen sharing window bar in Zoom.)

If you have an iPhone, you can run the Keynote presentation on your Mac from iOS Keynote and view all the notes, transitions, upcoming slides and bullet points there. That’s what I’m doing to run Keynote in Zoom - I can see all my notes and upcoming bullets or slides while everyone watching Zoom can only see the Keynote presentation running.

Hope that can help you access your great notes and more while you’re showing your brilliance to audiences through Keynote on Zoom!

I am so glad the answer was as simple as downloading the new version of keynote and following your option two, this is way better! For anyone else it might help (can't update Keynote for some reason?), my janky workaround was:

3) Load keynote on your iPad and then present there - download the Keynote App on your iPad and download the presentation. Then from Zoom press the green screen share button and choose "from iPad via Airplay" or "from iPad/iPhone via cable" - this was my stopgap solution so I could keep my movies and animations. In my experience sharing over AirPlay worked, but would get "stuck" on a slide and not update in Zoom even though I had moved on. The cable worked fine.

Thank goodness the desktop version added this feature, I was literally about to convert my presentations to powerpoint (yuck!) just so I could use my nice dual monitors. Before this update, Keynote would use BOTH of my monitors to present the slideshow, full screen in both, hiding all Zoom controls and participants. So annoying since this is part of why I bought the extra monitor, to have more Zoom real estate.

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!!!

Present in window is great!

EXCEPT, there is no presenter view, so I cant' see my notes or my next slide.

BUMMER.

Hopefully they will add that feature soon.

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.

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've used the Export as HTML solution since my BNI chapter went online two months ago. It great until last week. We added a countdown timer to keep everyone on time with their presentations, but I couldn't get the slide to advance on the mouse click until the countdown was over. I tried using the right bracket, but that doesn't solve the problem either.

It would be nice if Apple could just update Keynote to work with some simple functions that Microsoft Office utilizes. As much as I like Apple and appreciate the fact they provide their own software pre-installed, the office software programs still leaves something to be desired with simple-to-fix glitches the Microsoft has ironed out.

This is certainly a kludge. I could bring my iPhone or iPad to my teaching lab (none on the same wifi networks) and look at the presentation on one of those as I play through the presentation on the main iMac but this is just something else that will mess up smooth presentation. Keynote really needs a separate window that can, at least, show presenter notes and upcoming slides.

Works fine, BUT you cannot see your notes or any sort of next-slide preview screen, which considerably limits the utility.

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?