Shortcuts and palette

The smoothest shortcut is the one you remember under pressure.

Most presentation hiccups are not technical failures. They are the two quiet seconds spent hunting for a color, a tool or a setting while everyone waits. A small amount of preparation removes them.

Arrange colors in the order you think

Put the pen, highlighter and emphasis colors you actually use in Favorites. Then arrange them in the order they appear in your explanation. My Palette, number keys and Option-scroll all follow that same order, so a color change becomes muscle memory instead of a search.

Keep Command Palette as your safety net

Open it once with Command–K before your session. The point is not to configure anything—it is to remind your hands that every tool and setting is one short search away. In a live demo, that is often calmer than reaching for a tiny toolbar icon.

Let the audience see the work, not the controls

Keep “Hide toolbar from screen sharing” enabled unless you are teaching the app itself. Your HUD and controls remain useful to you, while the audience sees only the annotation, whiteboard or attention cue that serves the explanation.

Next: put those faster switches to work while annotating.