Jump to the end of animations when going to previous slide

Question

I use Keynote for my presentations, and I often have fairly complicated slides with many animations.

This generally works well, and it makes for a nice presentation. However, at the end of the talk, I am often asked to go back to a specific slide. This is made complicated because I need to find the right slide and go forward however many animations I have to get the final state of the slide. Moreover, if I don't remember the exact number of animations and click one time too many, I have to go back and repeat the whole process.

Is there a way to see the final state of a slide, after all animations have been applied, when going backward? Alternatively, is there a shortcut that displays the final state of the current slide?

Answer 1

You can hold ⇧ SHIFT when changing the slides with arrows. This disables the animations.

• ← and → arrows skip animations
• ↑ and ↓ arrows skip to the next slide

In order to "load" all animations you can press ⇧SHIFT↓ (next slide) and then ⇧SHIFT← (previous slide with all animations completed).

Answer 2

I know this won't work for all situations, but here is what I have done. I take a screenshot of the final image of the animated slide and put it as the next slide immediately after. Then, when I press 'next slide", I get the final image.