How to override a Keynote animation build?

Your question was: "when I'm playing the slide, Keynote refuses to let me transition to the next slide"

You are now asking a different question: "a way to cut that object effect short. It doesn't necessarily have to transition to another slide simultaneously"

You are STILL not reading my original post. What you quoted was not a question, but merely a description of what I was attempting to do in one circumstance. My actual question, if you read it, was: "there MUST be a way to override an animation and move into the next build, right?"

Next build was the aim. There's an actual question mark following it. A simple yes or no answer would have sufficed without the condescension.

Or, if you read past what you have selectively quoted, you will see the next sentence being: "It has to (for some reason) stubbornly finish playing those 50s before advancing onto the next build, which is my transition to slide 2."

Let's look at that again: "before advancing onto the next build, which is my transition to slide 2."

I've clearly followed it with a clarification saying that my problem was in advancing to the next build (which just happens to be a slide transition in this circumstance) and not the actual transition. If I wanted to animate something after that, I still would not be able to advance without waiting the first one through.

The question did not change and still has not changed.

The answer to that new question is to use shift down arrow to stop the effect and advance to the next slide. No transition effect will show.

Yes, I have already stated I know how to force an advance to the next slide with shift-down/right arrow and that the transition effect doesn't show and I have also said this is not what I was after.

Keynote and PowerPoint may be similar in that they are both presentation applications, but they have a very different set of tools.

1. They are not similar in that they are both presentation applications. They are identical in that they are presentation applications.
2. The set of tools between Keynote and Powerpoint are really not that different, sure there are some, but it definitely has more in common than not.
3. Thus, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that a simple override/cut off function would exist to simply hurry a slide along if need be, which is why I asked.

No one but Apple can change the feature set in Keynote.

Thanks, very helpful, again.

If Keynote can not offer a function you require, it would have been misleading to tell you keep using an application that would not deliver your expectations.

If you just said Keynote can't advance past an animation, I would have been able to make the decision whether to stick with it or use another application or asked someone else. I'm generally sure people can decide for themselves whether to keep using an application or not, not sure how you'd be able to mislead someone in their own choice? You could have simply said that Keynote cannot offer what I'm looking for or that you don't know how to do this without all the superiority.

People are well-aware that they "can only use the tools that Keynote has." No one is under the delusion that there are outside tools to use and no one has said that they wanted to use outside tools. This is not helpful or in the spirit of a community where veteran users are helping each other/new users.

This was not my question. I am asking whether there is a way to cut that object effect short. It doesn't necessarily have to transition to another slide simultaneously, if I can just override an object effect, I can obviously just click again and transition onwards.

I am very clear on that Powerpoint is another application but I also know that they are very similar applications with almost identical purposes, so obviously it would not be unreasonable to mention it in search of a parallel tool or functionality. It's a bit unhelpful to suggest to use another application.