# Presentation Assistant

Presentation Assistant is a useful tool to help you present code or demonstrate software features. As you invoke actions, Presentation Assistant displays their names and shortcuts in a popup. This helps your audience understand what you are doing without confusion.

Procedure: Enable Presentation Assistant

Your IDE already includes Presentation Assistant, which is disabled by default.

1. In the main menu, go to `View | Appearance` and enable Presentation Assistant.

2. Start working as usual. Presentation Assistant now displays names of actions that you invoke and their shortcuts.

![The Presentation Assistant displays the Find in Files command in the IDE.](https://resources.jetbrains.com.cn/help/img/idea/2026.2/presentation-assistant-command.png)

Procedure: Change the popup appearance

1. Press `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Windows), `⌘ Comma` (macOS), `⌘ Comma` (IntelliJ IDEA Classic (macOS)), `⌘ Comma` (macOS System Shortcuts), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (XWin), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (GNOME), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (KDE), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Emacs), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Sublime Text), `⌘ Comma` (Sublime Text (macOS)), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (NetBeans), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Visual Studio), `⌘ Comma` (Visual Studio (macOS)), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Eclipse), `⌘ Comma` (Eclipse (macOS)) to open settings and then select `Appearance & Behavior | Presentation Assistant`.

Alternatively, hover over the popup, click ![](https://resources.jetbrains.com.cn/help/img/idea/2026.2/app-client.actions.more.svg) and click Settings.

2. Configure the options:

* Popup size: choose how big you want the popup to be.

* Display for: set for how long the popup should be shown.

* Position: decide where to position the popup. You can also move the popup by dragging it.

![Customize the Presentation Assistant settings](https://resources.jetbrains.com.cn/help/img/idea/2026.2/presentation-assistant-settings.png)

You can change the appearance using the popup options: hover over the popup, click ![](https://resources.jetbrains.com.cn/help/img/idea/2026.2/app-client.actions.more.svg), and change the popup size and position using the menu that opens.

![Presentation Assistant settings popup](https://resources.jetbrains.com.cn/help/img/idea/2026.2/presentation-assistant-popup.png)

Procedure: Configure the keymap

Presentation Assistant shows shortcuts from the keymap that correspond to your operating system by default. You can change the main keymap and add a secondary one.

1. Press `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Windows), `⌘ Comma` (macOS), `⌘ Comma` (IntelliJ IDEA Classic (macOS)), `⌘ Comma` (macOS System Shortcuts), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (XWin), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (GNOME), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (KDE), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Emacs), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Sublime Text), `⌘ Comma` (Sublime Text (macOS)), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (NetBeans), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Visual Studio), `⌘ Comma` (Visual Studio (macOS)), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Eclipse), `⌘ Comma` (Eclipse (macOS)) to open settings and then select `Appearance & Behavior | Presentation Assistant`.

2. In the Keymap section, select another keymap from the Main list. Optionally, specify a different keymap label.

3. To add a secondary keymap, enable the Additional option and select a keymap from the list.

![Presentation Assistant with an additional Windows keymap enabled.](https://resources.jetbrains.com.cn/help/img/idea/2026.2/presentation-assistant-keymap.png)