Allow copying from presenter notes while in presentation mode

Here's a simple feature request, something that's definitely not supported in the current version of Keynote. It would be convenient to be able to copy text out of the presenter notes while a Keynote presentation is playing.


My use case is teaching programming. The slides show code fragments. I'd like to be able to paste those code fragments into a live IDE and run them. At present, the only way to do that is to stop the presentation so that I can select the code. It would be great to have the text selectable in the presenter notes, in which case I could grab the code from there without stopping the presentation.


Thanks!

MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.10

Posted on Oct 15, 2022 10:29 AM

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Posted on Oct 15, 2022 12:07 PM

Yup, that was my bad. You can't select by default, but if you hover over the text in the speaker notes, an "edit" button appears in the upper-right of that pane. Clicking on that button makes the speaker notes selectable. Thanks!

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Allow copying from presenter notes while in presentation mode

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