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Change Keynote Presenter Notes Font and Size for All Slides
tell application "Keynote"
tell document 1
set theSlides to slides
repeat with s in the slides
tell presenter notes of s
set font to "Helvetica"
set size to 24
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end tell
@markusmeister
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Thanks, super useful. Seems Apple should link to this - as long as they refuse to allow control of Presenter font in the Master slides.

@riaamp
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riaamp commented Feb 21, 2018

OMG! I've never learned Applescript but this issue was driving me NUTS. Copied code, pasted into Script Editor and ran it. Done. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Changed font size to 18 which is what I needed.) (Signed up for GitHub to say thank you.)

@jimcarwardine
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Getting an error when I run the script - expected end of line on the tell presenter notes of s line. Error highlighted the keyword notes...

@nick-zhang
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Many thanks, this drove me crazy in the past. And I found how to change the color as well.

tell application "Keynote"
tell document 1
set theSlides to slides
repeat with s in the slides
tell presenter notes of s
set font to "Open Sans"
set size to 17
set color of it to "black"
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end tell

@klp3hills
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Awesome, works great! Thanks!

@drdanaviv
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drdanaviv commented Apr 19, 2020

Thanks for this. It worked beautifully! What verbiage works in the script to change the AFTER and BEFORE PARAGRAPH spacing?

@sambert
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sambert commented May 12, 2020

Lifesaver!

@SFoskitt
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SFoskitt commented Aug 3, 2020

Unbelievably useful, thank you!!!

@riaamp
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riaamp commented Nov 6, 2020

Totally forgot that I'd had this issue. googled it again (want to change the font size) and found my own comment! D'oh.

@amandamcg
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Still works, thanks!

@RELNO
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RELNO commented Oct 15, 2022

Excellent!

@KVyDavid
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Great! I modified this to change text boxes size and font and color
But how do I apply text outline and shadows?
I also want to align center all text boxes vertically and horizontally

Thanks!

@KVyDavid
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Or apply one of my paragraph style

@gordon123
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gordon123 commented Jan 24, 2024

thank you!!! for some reason my presenter note text turned to white!! now I can change to black, so I can see the text thank a lot!!

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