why aren't hyperlinks enabled in presenter view?

I know this was posted quite a while ago, but I am in the exact situation and have not found an answer. I too teach from my iPad or my laptop and while I am in presenter view there is no way to activate a link in my presentation. I know that I can have audio files and quicktime movies "play on click" and that is wonderful. There doesn't seem to be a way for a hyperlink to activate "on click" though.

Am I missing something?

I cannot find a solution. If there is none, it is a major weakness in Keynote. I would like to use hyperlinks - not to go to external sites, but to change the flow of slides during a presentaion - i.e. to skip slides if I see the audience is becoming bored - or - I am running out of time. (I know that you can jump to a specified slide number from presenter view, but that requires a remembering slide number...)

Would love advice here or some reaction from Apple

best wishes

Kevin

Hyperlinks can not be activated from the presenter screen, it would be a useful addition, but there is no such facility.

However I don't see this as a problem, I use mirror displays, so I can see full screen on my local monitor, what the viewers see on the theatre's projection screen, and switch to Keynote presentar display if needed.

System Preferences > Arrangement > Mirror Displays

Gary

Thanks - it's a good idea

But - with complex lectures - it is not really feasible to jump backwards and forwards between the mirror display and the presenter display (you don't even get access to switch via the menubar - when in presenter mode)

best wishes

Kevin

Kevin

I was trying to suggest, when appropriate, to use either mirror display or presenter. Switching between mirror and presenter during a presentation would not be recommended.

I think the solution is to think differently about this (yes, the pun was intented.)

Instead of "why can't the links work in presenter mode", let's ask for the function of activating the link with an "on click" while building the presentation. Just as I can start a movie or audio file the exact same way as I build in another bullet point on a slide curently, I would like to activate a hyperlink.

This would solve the problem in presenter mode AND solve the issue while on iPads (becuase the work-around about moving the mouse over and ensuring the browser window is on the correct screen will not help at all on my iPad when there is no mouse to move across screens to click the hyperlink)

Apple...are you listening? On behalf of all the professors who want to use keynote for lectures and NEED the presenter view intact, please fix this.

Apple do not listen in here, this is a forum for the users of Keynote.

If you want to make suggestions to Apple on future development, the correct place to do so is here: Apple Feedback