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Apple Keynote User Manual

Keynote 2

User’s Guide

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Contents

7Preface: Welcome to Keynote 2

7Keynote Features at a Glance

12 Resources for Learning More

15Chapter 1: Overview of Keynote

15The Keynote Window

16The Slide Canvas

17The Slide Organizer

21The Notes Field

22Keynote Tools

25 Chapter 2: Creating a Presentation

25 Step 1: Select a Theme

27 Step 2: Create Your Slides

32Step 3: Organize Your Slides

33Step 4: Save Your Slideshow

35 Step 5: Play Your Slideshow

37Chapter 3: Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media

37 Editing Text and Text Properties

44 Adding Images

47 Resizing, Moving, and Layering Objects

52 Including Sound and Other Media

56 Adding Webpages and Hyperlinks

61Modifying Layouts

62Changing the Slide Background

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64Retaining or Undoing Your Style Changes

65Chapter 4: Changing Object Properties

65Using Color and Image Fills

69 Changing Line Style and Position

71Adding Shadows

72Adjusting Opacity

73Changing an Object’s Orientation

74Changing an Object’s Size and Position

77Chapter 5: Creating Tables

77Adding a Table

78Selecting Table Cells and Borders

80 Formatting Tables

86 Adding Images or Background Colors

89 Chapter 6: Creating Charts

89 About Charts

92Adding a Chart

93Editing Chart Data

94Formatting Charts

105 Chapter 7: Slide Transitions and Object Builds

105 Adding Transitions Between Slides

107 Creating Object Builds

113 Chapter 8: Viewing, Printing, and Exporting Your Slideshow

113 Customizing a Presentation for Your Audience

115 Full-Screen Presentations

118 Setting Presentation Options

122 Printing Your Slides

124 Exporting to Other Viewing Formats

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129Chapter 9: Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes

130Modifying Master Slide Backgrounds and Layouts

135 Changing Default Styles for Text and Objects

137Saving a Custom Theme

138Creating a Custom Theme

139Appendix A: Presentation Keyboard Shortcuts

141 Appendix B: Inspectors at a Glance

141 Document Inspector

141Slide Inspector

142Build Inspector

142Text Inspector

143Graphic Inspector

143Metrics Inspector

144Table Inspector

144Chart Inspector

145Hyperlink Inspector

145 QuickTime Inspector

147 Index

Contents

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Welcome to Keynote 2

Preface

With Keynote, impressive presentations are just the beginning. This preface provides an overview of the features of Keynote and a list of resources for using it.

Keynote is a robust program for creating professional-quality presentations. Keynote’s powerful and simple tools make it easy to deliver compelling presentations, create studio-quality storyboards and portfolios, and author interactive slideshows. You can incorporate photos, movies, or music from your iLife libraries, as well as Safari web snapshots.

Present your data using any of the charts and tables built right into Keynote. Use the handsome and versatile themes that come with Keynote, or customize themes to suit your specific needs.

Your Keynote presentation can be viewed in several ways, including watching it on a computer, projecting it from a computer to a large screen, printing it, or exporting it as a set of image files or to Flash, QuickTime, PowerPoint, or PDF format so that it can be viewed on other computer platforms. (For more information about viewing options, see Chapter 8,“Viewing, Printing, and Exporting Your Slideshow.”)

Keynote Features at a Glance

Professional-Quality Designs

Keynote provides a wide variety of themes for creating stunning presentations in a snap. Every theme includes coordinated colors, text, charts, and tables. You can easily change a slideshow’s theme at any time, and you can modify themes to suit your needs. You can even set off sections of your slideshow by using multiple themes in the same presentation.

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Real-Time Animated Text

Bring your text to life with Keynote’s studio-quality text animations. Choose from an array of text and word animations. The real-time preview makes it easy to quickly audition effects and make adjustments.

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Powerful Animation Tools

Create complex slide animations quickly and easily. Keynote 2 adds auto-advance between slides, and advanced timing options for object builds so that you can precisely time all aspects of your slide animations.

Create sophisticated animations and slide transitions. Synchronize the entry, motion, and exit of multiple objects on a slide.

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Easy-to-Use Media Tools

Preview items in your iPhoto or iTunes Library, or your Movies folder, and drag them right to a slide.

Use the Mask feature to reveal only the part of an image you want to focus on, without altering the original image file.

Use a mask to frame

Drag an image, movie, or

part of a photo.

audio file from the iLife

 

Media Browser to a slide.

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Present With Confidence

Set up the main display for the audience and an alternate presenter display. While you give your presentation, you can view information such as the current and next slide, elapsed time or time remaining, a clock, and slide notes. Jump to any slide by typing its slide number.

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Self-Guided Presentations and Kiosks:

Tell your story even when you’re not there. For kiosk presentations, create self-playing slideshows that automatically loop. Or use hyperlinks to create slideshows that viewers can navigate through. Turn any object into a hyperlink to perform such actions as going to another slide, opening another Keynote document, or going to a website. Embed a snapshot of the content of any webpage— without the browser frame. Optionally auto-update the web page snapshot at presentation time.

Easily add “previous” and “next” slide links across your presentation using slide masters.

Resources for Learning More

To get the most from Keynote, consult the following resources:

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Tour

For an onscreen demonstration of what you can do with Keynote, view the tour. Open the tour by choosing Help > iWork Tour.

User’s Guide

This guide (what you’re reading now) describes the features of Keynote and shows you how to use it. To see a full-color PDF file of this guide, choose Help > Keynote User Guide.

Chapter 1,“Overview of Keynote,” describes the tools for creating presentations.

Chapter 2,“Creating a Presentation,” shows the basic step-by-step workflow. For more detailed information about each step, refer to Chapters 3 through 8. To learn how to create your own themes, read Chapter 9,“Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes.”

Note: To complete many of the tasks in this book (and in Keynote Help), you use menu commands. The instructions look like this:

mChoose Help > iWork Tour.

The first term after Choose is the menu you click; the next term is the item you choose from that menu.

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Onscreen Help

To see the help, open Keynote and choose Help > Keynote Help. You can browse through the table of contents to find a specific topic, or enter a question in the search field to find an answer about how to accomplish a task.

Help tags are also available for many onscreen items. To see a help tag, let the pointer rest over an item for a few seconds.

To display a help tag, rest the pointer over an item.

Keynote Quick Reference

The quick reference card lists many of the keyboard shortcuts for Keynote. (To see a complete list of shortcuts, choose Help > Keynote Keyboard Shortcuts or search for “keyboard shortcuts” in the onscreen help.)

Web Resources

Go to www.apple.com/keynote to get the latest software updates and information. You can also purchase Keynote products on the web.

To find out about Keynote products and get up-to-date information: m Choose Help > Keynote on the Web.

Technical Support

A variety of support options are available to Keynote users. For more information, see the AppleCare Software Service and Support Guide that comes with your Keynote documentation or choose Help > Keynote Support.

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Overview of Keynote

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This chapter introduces you to the windows and tools you’ll use in Keynote.

When you create slides in Keynote, you create a Keynote document. The entire slideshow, including all of the graphics, media, and chart data, is contained within this one document, which can be easily moved from one computer to another. If you add movies or sounds to your document, you can save them as a part of your Keynote document so that you don’t have to transfer those files separately.

The Keynote Window

The Keynote window contains three sections—the slide canvas, the slide organizer, and the notes field—which display detailed views of your slides and slideshow as you work. It’s easy to keep your slides organized and navigate through even long slideshows.

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The slide canvas:

Create each slide by typing text and adding media.

The toolbar:

Customize it to include the tools you use most often.

The slide organizer: Create a visual outline of your slide presentation. You can view a thumbnail of each slide or a text outline.

The notes field: Add text about individual slides. You can refer to these notes during your presentation—the audience won’t see them.

The Slide Canvas

The slide canvas is where you create each slide. You can easily drag graphics files, movie files, and sound files to the canvas to add them to your slideshow.

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You create a slideshow using a theme—a family of master slides—to ensure a handsome and cohesive look throughout your presentation. Master slides provide predesigned layouts for various kinds of slides, with coordinated fonts, textures, chart properties, and more. Each theme contains a variety of master slides, making it easy to add titles, bulleted text, and graphics.

As you work on your slides, you may want to zoom in or out to get a better view of what you are doing.

To zoom in or out on the slide canvas:

mChoose View > Zoom > [zoom level]. Or choose a magnification level from the pop-up menu at the bottom left of the slide canvas.

The Slide Organizer

Use the slide organizer at the left side of the Keynote window to organize the slides in your presentation. In the organizer, you can rearrange slides by dragging them, and you can indent slides to group them.

The slide organizer has two views: navigator view, which is most useful for graphicsintensive presentations, and outline view, best for presentations that are mainly text.

To change from one view to the other:

mChoose View > Outline or View > Navigator (or click View in the toolbar and choose an option).

To hide the slide organizer:

mChoose View > Slide Only.

Navigator View

In navigator view, the slide organizer displays a thumbnail image of each slide in your presentation, making it easy to see the flow of graphics-rich presentations.

To help you organize your presentation as you work, you can group slides by indenting them, creating a “visual outline” of the slideshow. You can show or hide groups of slides by clicking the disclosure triangles. You can also skip slides so that they will not appear when you present your slideshow.

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To show navigator view:

mChoose View > Navigator (or click View in the toolbar and choose Navigator).

To hide navigator view:

mChoose View > Slide Only (or click View in the toolbar and choose Slide Only).

You can see your master slides in navigator view by dragging the bar at the top. Use the master slides to design your own themes and master slide layouts. (For information about designing your own themes and master slide layouts, see Chapter 9,“Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes.”)

Drag the bar at the top of navigator view to display the master slides.

See the graphics on each of your slides at a glance.

Organize slides by indenting them. To indent a slide, drag it or select it and press Tab.

Click the disclosure triangles to show or hide groups of indented slides.

To add a slide, do one of the following:

ÂChoose Slide > New Slide.

ÂSelect a slide and click New in the toolbar or press Return (these options create a slide with the same master as the selected slide).

ÂPress Option and drag a slide until you see a blue triangle (this duplicates the dragged slide).

ÂSelect a slide and choose Edit > Duplicate.

ÂSelect a slide, choose Edit > Copy, select another slide, and choose Edit > Paste (this copies the first slide and puts a duplicate of it after the second slide you selected).

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To indent slides:

1 In navigator view, select the slide you want to indent.

To select multiple slides, hold down the Shift key and select the first and last slides in a range.

2 Press Tab (or drag the selected slide to the right until a blue triangle appears).

You can create more indent levels by pressing Tab again. You can indent a slide only one level deeper than the previous (the “parent”) slide.

To move slides to a higher outline level:

mSelect the slides and press Shift-Tab (or drag the selected slides to the left).

To show or hide a group of slides:

mClick the disclosure triangle to the left of the first slide in the group.

To skip a slide when you play your slideshow:

mSelect the slide and choose Slide > Skip Slide.

To display a skipped slide:

mSelect the slide (it looks like a line in the slide organizer) and choose Slide > Don’t Skip Slide.

To delete a slide:

mSelect the slide in the slide organizer and press the Delete key.

If the slide had children (subordinate slides grouped below it), they are moved up by one outline level.

To delete a slide and all the slides grouped below it:

mCollapse the group of slides (click the arrow to the left of the top slide) and press the Delete key.

If you accidentally delete slides, you can recover them immediately by choosing Edit > Undo Delete.

To move a group of slides:

mSelect the first slide in the group and drag the group to a new location in the slide organizer.

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Outline View

Outline view displays the text of each slide in your slideshow. This view is most useful for seeing the flow of text-rich presentations. All of the titles and bullet points appear legibly in the slide organizer.

Outline view provides an easy way to order and reorder your bullet points as you organize your presentation. You can add bullet points to existing text directly in the slide organizer. You can also drag bullets from one slide to another, or drag them to a higher or lower level within the same slide.

As in navigator view, you can skip slides so that they don’t appear when you play your slideshow.

In outline view, you see the text in titles and bullet points. You can add or edit text directly in the outline view.

Drag bullets left or right to move them to a higher or lower outline level.

Double-click a slide icon to hide its bulleted text in the slide organizer.

Drag bullets to another slide or drag them to create a new slide.

To show outline view:

m Choose View > Outline (or click View in the toolbar and choose Outline).

To change the font used in outline view:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click General.

2 Choose a font and size from the Outline View Font pop-up menus.

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To select a bullet and its text in outline view:

mClick the bullet.

To select a bullet (or bullets) and its subordinate bullets:

mClick between a bullet and its text, then drag down.

To move a bullet to a lower outline level on the same slide:

mClick anywhere in the text and press Tab, or drag the bullet to the right, until a blue triangle appears.

You can also select (highlight) any number of bullets and press Tab.

To move a bullet to a higher outline level on the same slide:

mClick anywhere in the text and press Shift-Tab, or drag the bullet to the left until a blue triangle appears.

To move bullets to another slide:

mDrag the selected bullets out of the current slide to a different slide.

To move bullets from one slide and create a new slide:

mDrag the bullets to the left of the other bullets on the slide until a blue triangle appears above the slide.

To place all slide bullets subordinate to the bullets on the previous slide:

mDrag the slide icon to the right.

All bullets on the slide are moved to the previous slide, with the first bullet at the same level as the last bullet on the previous slide.

To print out the outline view: 1 Choose File > Print.

2 In the Print dialog, choose Keynote from the Copies & Pages pop-up menu.

3 Select Outline.

The Notes Field

Use the notes field to type or view notes for each slide. You can print these notes or view them on an alternate display that only you see while you give your presentation.

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The notes field is an area where you can keep track of what you want to say as you show each slide.

To see the notes field:

mChoose View > Show Notes (or click View in the toolbar and choose Show Notes). To learn how to view your notes during slideshow playback, see Chapter 8,“Viewing, Printing, and Exporting Your Slideshow.”

Keynote Tools

The Toolbar

The Keynote toolbar gives you one-click access to many of the actions you’ll use as you create presentations. As you work in Keynote and get to know which commands you use most often, you can add, remove, and rearrange toolbar buttons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open the

 

Click these buttons

 

 

Add a free

Inspector window,

 

to add or delete

 

 

text box, a

Media Browser,

 

slides, or play the

 

 

shape, a table,

Colors window, or

 

slideshow.

 

 

or a chart.

Font panel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click to choose a new view, theme, or master slide.

Turn a group of objects into one object (or one into its components); move an object on top of or underneath other objects.

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To customize the toolbar:

1 Choose View > Customize Toolbar.

2 To add an item to the toolbar, drag its icon to the toolbar at the top.

3 To remove an item from the toolbar, drag it out of the toolbar.

4 To rearrange items in the toolbar, drag them.

5 To make the toolbar icons smaller, select Use Small Size.

6To display only icons or only text, choose an option from the Show pop-up menu.

You can restore the default set of toolbar buttons by dragging the default set to the toolbar.

If you’re not sure what a button does, drag it into the toolbar (in the Customize dialog) and place the pointer over the icon until you see its description (help tag).

The Inspector Window

The Inspector window makes it easy to format your slides as you work. Most elements of your slideshow are formatted using the ten panes of the Inspector window.

Click one of these buttons to display a different Inspector pane.

To open the Inspector window:

mChoose View > Show Inspector (or click Inspector in the toolbar).

Click one of the buttons at the top to display its inspector pane. Clicking the second button from the left, for example, displays the Slide Inspector. You can have several Inspector windows open at the same time.

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To open more than one Inspector window at the same time: m Choose View > New Inspector.

The Font Panel

Keynote uses the Mac OS X Font panel, so you can use any of the fonts on your computer in your presentations.

To open the Font panel:

mChoose Format > Font > Show Fonts (or click Fonts in the toolbar).

Note: If you use special fonts in a Keynote document and you send it to others, be sure the recipients have those fonts installed on their computer.

The Colors Window

You use the Mac OS X Colors window to choose colors for text, shapes, or shadows.

To open the Colors window:

m Choose View > Show Colors (or click Colors in the toolbar).

Shortcuts

You can use the keyboard to perform many of the Keynote menu commands and tasks. A comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts is available in onscreen help. Many keyboard shortcuts are also listed in the Keynote Quick Reference card.

To see the list of keyboard shortcuts:

mIn Keynote, choose Help > Keynote Keyboard Shortcuts.

Many commands are also available in shortcut menus that you can access directly from the object you are working with.

To open a shortcut menu:

mPress the Control key while you click an object.

Shortcut menus are especially useful for working with tables and charts.

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Creating a Presentation

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This chapter outlines the basic tasks and steps for completing a professional-quality slide presentation.

Importing a PowerPoint or AppleWorks Presentation

If you already have a slide presentation that you created in Microsoft PowerPoint or AppleWorks, you can import it into Keynote and continue to work on it. Simply drag the PowerPoint or AppleWorks document icon onto the Keynote application icon.

The document opens in Keynote and you can select a theme.

You can also export Keynote documents to PowerPoint. For more information, see “PowerPoint” on page 127.

Step 1: Select a Theme

To start a Keynote project from scratch, double-click the Keynote icon and select a theme.

By using a Keynote theme, you can create an attractive presentation without having to do a lot of design work. Each Keynote theme includes a set of templates (called master slides) with styled text, bullets, layouts, and other formatting features already set for you. Keynote themes come in a broad variety of textures and moods to suit different kinds of presentations.

Whenever you create a new Keynote document, you must select a theme in the Theme Chooser. You can easily change the theme of a Keynote slideshow at any time. You can also make Keynote use a particular theme for new documents.

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To apply a different theme to a slide presentation:

1Choose File > Choose Theme (or click Themes in the toolbar and choose Theme Chooser), and then select a theme.

2 Select a slide size.

About slide size: Most projectors work best with slides at the default size, 800 x 600. Newer ones may display slides well at a resolution of 1024 x 768. If your display is larger than one of these sizes, you can set a custom slide size for your Keynote presentation. For more information, see “Changing the Slide Size” on page 121.

3Click Choose.

You can specify that new documents always use a particular theme.

To specify the theme used for new documents: 1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click General.

2 Select “Use theme” and click Choose.

3Select a theme and click Choose.

To modify themes or create your own, see Chapter 9,“Designing Your Own

Master Slides and Themes.” You can also use more than one theme in a presentation; see “Using Multiple Themes” on page 33.

Kinds of Slideshows

You can make three different kinds of presentations in Keynote, depending on how the presentation will be used. It’s a good idea to keep the kind of presentation in mind as you design it.

ÂNormal. These presentations are controlled by clicking the mouse or using the keyboard. By default, a slideshow is normal (interactive) unless you make it a selfplaying or hyperlinks-only slideshow.

ÂSelf-playing. These presentations advance automatically, like a movie (no user interaction is possible). You can use this option, for example, to play a presentation in a kiosk setting. To learn about creating these kinds of presentations, see “SelfPlaying Presentations” on page 113.

ÂHyperlinks only. Viewers navigate through these presentations by clicking hyperlinks. For more information about creating these kinds of presentations, see “Hyperlinks-Only Presentations” on page 115.

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Step 2: Create Your Slides

When you select a theme, a single slide appears in the slide organizer. You can begin working in this first slide, adding text, graphics, movies, and sound. You can add new slides to the document as needed.

To add a slide, do one of the following:

ÂChoose Slide > New Slide (or click New in the toolbar).

ÂClick New in the toolbar.

ÂSelect a slide in the slide organizer and press Return.

Important: Save your work often by choosing File > Save. For more details about saving Keynote documents, see “Step 4: Save Your Slideshow” on page 33.

As you work, you’ll want to use different slide layouts to place your text and graphics on individual slides. Master slides provide the layouts you are most likely to need.

Using Master Slides

Each Keynote theme includes a family of master slides. Each master slide has a different layout that may include title and body placeholder text, as well as object placeholders for graphics, tables, and charts.

Most themes come with the master slide layouts described here:

Master slide

Recommended use

Title

Title page or section titles within your presentation

 

 

Title & Subtitle

Title page or section titles requiring a subtitle

 

 

Bullets

General content pages that require bulleted text; the text area

 

fills the entire slide

 

 

Title & Bullets—Left

Content pages on which you can place bulleted text on the left

 

and a graphic on the right

 

 

Title, Bullets & Photo

Title page or section title with text and photo

 

 

Blank

Graphics-rich layouts

 

 

When you create a new slide, it uses the master slide of the selected slide. (Except when the selected slide is the first slide, Title & Subtitle.) You can change a slide’s master slide layout at any time.

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To change the master for a slide:

1 Select the slide whose master slide layout you want to change.

2 Click Masters in the toolbar.

3Choose a master slide in the list.

For more information about modifying themes and master slides, see Chapter 9, “Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes.”

Adding Text

Master slides provide placeholder text (which you replace with your text) for slide titles and body text. Title text is larger than body text. Most body text is bulleted, although some master slides offer non-bulleted body text. Choose a master slide with the combination of title text and body text that best suits the slide’s content.

To add title text to a slide:

mDouble-click in a title text box in the slide canvas and type your text.

To add bulleted text:

mClick in a bulleted body text box in the slide canvas and begin typing.

To move to the next bulleted line, press Return. To indent a bulleted line, press Tab. To move a bulleted line to a higher indent level, press Shift-Tab.

For information about creating text without bullets, see “Adding Text Without Bullets” on page 37.

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Double-click in a title text box and type a title. The font and text size are already set for you.

Double-click in a body text box and type to create bulleted text. The bullet style, font, and text size are already set.

Drag a graphic file from the Media Browser or Finder to your slide.

You can change the look of the text and bullets in any of your slides using the Text Inspector and the Graphic Inspector. For more details about how to use inspectors to change text, including how to change the style of bullets or add text without bullets, see Chapter 3,“Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media.”

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Adding Graphics

To add a graphic to a slide, do one of the following:

ÂChoose View > Show Media Browser (or click Media in the toolbar), choose iPhoto, and drag a photo to the slide canvas.

ÂDrag a graphic file from the Finder to the slide canvas.

ÂChoose Insert > Choose, select the graphic file, and click Insert.

ÂTo create a new slide with the graphic on it, drag the graphic file from the Finder to the slide organizer.

You can modify a graphic’s colors, alignment, orientation, and other properties. You make these adjustments using the Inspectors. You set object placement, size, and orientation in the Metrics Inspector. Shadow, fill color, and opacity are set using the Graphic Inspector. For more information about setting attributes using the inspectors, see Chapter 3,“Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media.”

To present complex or numerical data in an easily digestible visual format, you can use a table or chart; Keynote supplies tables and charts for each theme. For more information about adding tables and charts, see Chapter 5,“Creating Tables,” and Chapter 6,“Creating Charts.”

Using Alignment Guides and Rulers

As you move text and graphics around on the slide canvas, you will notice yellow alignment guides. These pop-up guides help you center and align objects on the canvas. They appear whenever the center or edge of an object aligns with the center or edge of another object, or with the center of the slide canvas. You can create your own alignment guides to help you place slide elements precisely in the same position from one slide to the next. Alignment guides (even those you create) don’t appear during a presentation; they are visible only when you are editing a slide.

Keynote also displays the X and Y coordinates of an object’s top-left corner as you move the object around the slide canvas, or the object’s angle as you rotate it. When you resize an object, size tags display the object’s height and width.

You can turn on rulers to help you align objects on the slide canvas. Rulers show you how far (in increments you specify) an object is from the edge of the slide.

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