A windowed play session mode in Keynote

Hi Guys,

The COVID 19 virus, Power Point and Keynote.

I know. It seems really strange to get those words together. But that’s what I need to ask.

Because of the COVID 19 virus our Universities will be closed from next Monday - the 16th — (this is Portugal, Europe).

Our theoretical classes will be online with the Zoom package and I have some Keynote slides to present. I am using Keynote for for quite some time now.

However, now I think I’ll need Power Point again because of he Keynote/Zoom pair.

In Keynote when one presses Play one gets the whole screen with the presentation. So I will be loosing all the Zoom little things I need for an interactive class.

With Power Point I can choose to play my slides (Show Type) in a mode called “Browsed by an individual (window)” that allows me to control the size of this window and so keeping space for The Participants; chat and so on in little windows belonging to Zoom.

My question: is there some kind of “Browsed by an individual (window)” mode in Keynote that I am missing and not capable of finding?

My request to Apple (I know that they don’t come here but maybe I am lucky): could you add such a possibility to Keynote in the "near futurre" :-)?

Thank you all

Posted on Mar 14, 2020 11:10 AM

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athoy224

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Posted on Jul 30, 2020 7:13 AM

There is a "windowed" slideshow mode. Click Play-> Play Slideshow in a window.

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May 8, 2020 6:58 AM in response to Woodenbookend

That would be greart and possible it will be the way of doing the thing when back at office in the University (who knows when :-)?).

There, in fact, I have two monitors. At home I just have my Laptop so it doesn't apply here.

But thanks a lot for your sugestion and thorough description.

And of course I much prefer Keynote, too :-)

jilbert

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Jun 9, 2020 9:20 AM in response to allen.h

I'm using the Mac's built in app. In Finder in the Go menu I choose "Connect to Server… ⌘K" and, for example, to connect my Mac Mini I type: "vnc://192.168.0.21", that being the IP address of my other machine on my home network. Screen Sharing and / or Remote Management needs to be enabled in the Sharing panel of System Preferences of the remote machine.

Jul 10, 2020 10:03 AM in response to allen.h

Here’s a quick workaround: If you have an iPhone, open the Key it’s presentation on your Mac and then open the Keynote app on your iPhone. When you run your Keynote presentation from the iPhone, clicking the icons at the top of the iOS Keynote allows you to view previews of transitions and next slides in addition to viewing the current slide.

I tried this yesterday with Keynote 10.0 and new version 10.1 to prepare for my next online classes and it works without any hitches.

allen.h

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Jul 12, 2020 12:53 PM in response to Arthur Busbey

Also, like many nowdays, I'm presenting in video. I use a teleprompter for displaying the slides. Having to look down at my phone defeats the whole purpose of the teleprompter. Two windows, one with the slides and another with the preview/notes (or three windows, one for each), is essential for me.

Mar 31, 2020 9:29 PM in response to Gary Scotland

This is just one solution, but not the best solution!

I wonder why Keynote is not adding this feature, so we will not be forced to switch to PowerPoint?!

judi247

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Apr 29, 2020 12:27 PM in response to jorgefromcarparica

what is a windows play session mode in Keynote. Does this mean to export as a PowerPoint?

May 1, 2020 11:55 AM in response to bhorvath77

Hi BH,

In fact, it doesn't "work". It just kind of does. Imagine you have animations in your Keynote (and I have) .... See?

Cheers

May 1, 2020 12:33 PM in response to jorgefromcarparica

I found that I had to use Firefox or Chrome for the best reproduction of the animations, etc. Safari is surprisingly bad at advancing the slide, let alone animating them.

allen.h

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13 points

Jun 9, 2020 9:12 AM in response to jilbert

Which Screen-sharing app are you using? Sidecar (the Apple screen-sharing app) doesn’t work on a trash-can MacPro.

Jul 10, 2020 5:02 AM in response to jorgefromcarparica

That is very good news - and it works just fine!

Jul 10, 2020 10:00 AM in response to allen.h

Yea - I also just figured that out. Nice to have the windowed presentation but not having the presenter notes (at least) is an issue. Not sure why they left that out??

Jul 10, 2020 10:06 AM in response to Arthur Busbey

By the way, that iOS Keynote will also let you view your notes and the next transitions in the Keynote that you’re using it to run on your Mac.

allen.h

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Jul 12, 2020 12:35 PM in response to LearningAgent

That's a kluge, not a solution. The fact that this is an automated "solution" is a huge problem. Are you going to fix the actual issue or just give us unacceptable workarounds?

Macnecio

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Jul 23, 2020 7:26 AM in response to NicholasPyers

I would also hope that a future update fixes this issue. I am really struggling with keynote by not having access to the presenter notes while giving Keynote presentations via Zoom.

Jul 29, 2020 4:14 PM in response to LearningAgent

This is great, however I need to also see my presentation notes. How can I view the notes too? Many thanks for your suggestions.

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