keynote presenter slides

How to cancel the presenter option?

I want to use my iMac to surf the web and work and use the extended monitor to play a keynote slideshow

iMac 24″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 10, 2023 1:09 PM

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Oct 11, 2023 2:08 AM in response to allecpetrescu

When Keynote is in Play, other applications are not visible.

A work around is to playback using In a Window which you can position and size to full screen:

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