You can turn text, text boxes, images, shapes, lines, arrows, and videos into links that you can click during a presentation to open webpages or email message windows, or jump to other slides. Objects that have links appear just like normal objects in your presentation.
As you type text in a text box or shape, Keynote automatically uses Smart Links to detect valid web addresses (URLs) or email addresses. (The address must be followed by a space, tab, or return character, or one of many punctuation symbols, including quotation marks, parentheses, and brackets.) URLs and email addresses become active and are underlined to indicate that they’re links.
If you don’t want Keynote to automatically detect links, you can turn off Smart Links.
Control-click selected text or an object you want to add a link to, then choose Add Link.
Click the “Link to” pop-up menu, choose an option, then provide the required information (a URL or email address, for example).
Slide: Links to another slide in the presentation. Click Go To Slide to jump to the slide you selected.
Webpage: Links to a webpage in a browser. Click Open to open the webpage.
Mail: Opens an email message with the address and subject you enter. Click Open to see a preview of the mail message.
Exit Slideshow: Exits the presentation when you click the text or object.
Click outside the dialog to dismiss it.
Do one of the following:
Click the blue arrow in the lower-right of an object, then make your changes.
Click the link text, then make your changes.
If you don’t want to automatically format links as clickable text, you can turn off automatic formatting.
Choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).
In the Substitutions window, deselect the Smart Links checkbox.
Click Replace All to remove formatting from all automatically formatted links in the presentation, or click Replace in Selection to remove formatting just from the selected text.
When Smart Links is turned on for the presentation, a checkmark appears next to Smart Links in the Substitutions menu. You can deselect Smart Links to turn it off, but existing links won’t change unless you select the text that contains the links, then follow the steps above.
You can set up your slideshow to be an interactive presentation that changes slides when the viewer clicks its links. An interactive, links-only presentation is especially useful in a kiosk setting.