I have decided to use keynote for 'Wire Framing' but as I am used to using photoshop for this I have altered some keyboard shortcuts (some of Keynotes are ridiculous). I have run into a problem though where in the edit mode Keynote won't Zoom In with 'CMD' + '=' ( + ) and even disabling this shortcut Keynote won't zoom in. Pressing the keyboard shortcut kets just gives me the error sound.
Any ideas here?
Thanks.
Keynote-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Zoom in and out are <CMD> + > and <CMD> + <
Hi Thanks,
They were set as this before I changed them to 'cmd' and '=' for zoom in (like photoshop) and 'cmd' and '-' for zoom out. but now removing my changed keyboard shortcuts still dosn't make 'cmd' and '>' work to zoom in either.
But 'cmd' and '-' will work to zoom out.
When you look at the menu items (that I showed in previous post) what does Keynote indicate is the keyboard short cut?
Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts > Application Shortcuts:
What are the entries (if any) for Keynote?
This is my set up
What does Key note show in the view menu?
Keynote also shows my settings:
Do you have Adobe Photoshop open at the same time as Keynote?
The confusion about Cmd > and Cmd < happens because to actually get Cmd < or Cmd > one has to type SHIFT-CMD < or SHIFT Cmd > because the < or > reside in the upper case part of the key - so you can also think of it as typing SHIFT Cmd , (comma) or SHIFT Cmd . (period).
If you type Cmd < (or >) without the shift key, you are actually typing Cmd , (comma) (or . (period)) and your Mac will give you a beep to tell you that that is wrong
Thanks for the replies.
I've tried with Photoshop both open and closed.
I thought this may have something to do with '+' being the upper of '=' but technically I am still pressing 'cmd' and '=' so that should technically zoom...
But even without my keyboard short cuts set the default is 'cmd' and '>' (so I don't actually have to set whether I press '>' or '.') which isn't what I'm looking for.
also when entering shortcuts if I press shift it adds shift to the shortcut so instead of 'cmd' and '+' it would be 'shift', 'cmd' and '='.
I too want Keynote to work like Adobe with zoom in and zoom out mapped the way you describe.
It doesn't work for me either on my regular keyboard, but if I use an external extended keyboard, cmd = DOES work, if you use the = key on the numerical pad.
I have no idea why that is, and it doesn't help as a shortcut, but maybe someone can use it to decode the problem.
I found this discussion after wanting to do the exact same thing in Pages. So weird - you can remap "Command-Minus" to Zoom Out with no problem, but not "Command-Equal" to Zoom In. It's definitely that particular key combination that has a problem, as you can remap Zoom In to any other key combo.
Did anyone find a solution yet?
You are probably having this problem because Keynote uses Cmd = and Cmd + to increase font size. The menu shows Cmd + but either Cmd + or Cmd = works, as per the Help file on keyboard shortcuts. It might not be possible to unmap Cmd = from that command
Yup. Already tried that. Remapped Font -> Bigger to something else so there was no conflict. Still didn't work.
pollux314 wrote:
Yup. Already tried that. Remapped Font -> Bigger to something else so there was no conflict. Still didn't work.
The menu shows Cmd + as the default shortcut for Font/Bigger, not Cmd = . Cmd = seems to be built into the app and causes a conflict when you also assign it to something else. Cmd + can be remapped but Cmd = apparently cannot.
I Cannot get Keynote to Zoom In
