Apple Keynote - 2 Operating Instructions
Keynote 2
User’s Guide
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Contents
7 Preface: Welcome to Keynote 2
7
Keynote Features at a Glance
12
Resources for Learning More
15 Chapter 1: Overview of Keynote
15
The Keynote Window
16
The Slide Canvas
17
The Slide Organizer
21
The Notes Field
22
Keynote Tools
25 Chapter 2: Creating a Presentation
25 Step 1:
27 Step 2:
32 Step 3:
33 Step 4:
35 Step 5:
37 Chapter 3: Working With Text, Graphics,
37
44
47
52
56
61
62
Select a Theme
Create Your Slides
Organize Your Slides
Save Your Slideshow
Play Your Slideshow
and Other Media
Editing Text and Text Properties
Adding Images
Resizing, Moving, and Layering Objects
Including Sound and Other Media
Adding Webpages and Hyperlinks
Modifying Layouts
Changing the Slide Background
3
64
Retaining or Undoing Your Style Changes
65 Chapter 4: Changing Object Properties
65
Using Color and Image Fills
69
Changing Line Style and Position
71
Adding Shadows
72
Adjusting Opacity
73
Changing an Object’s Orientation
74
Changing an Object’s Size and Position
77 Chapter 5: Creating Tables
77
Adding a Table
78
Selecting Table Cells and Borders
80
Formatting Tables
86
Adding Images or Background Colors
89 Chapter 6: Creating Charts
89
About Charts
92
Adding a Chart
93
Editing Chart Data
94
Formatting 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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Contents
129 Chapter 9: Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes
130
Modifying Master Slide Backgrounds and Layouts
135
Changing Default Styles for Text and Objects
137
Saving a Custom Theme
138
Creating a Custom Theme
139 Appendix A: Presentation Keyboard Shortcuts
141 Appendix B: Inspectors at a Glance
141
Document Inspector
141
Slide Inspector
142
Build Inspector
142
Text Inspector
143
Graphic Inspector
143
Metrics Inspector
144
Table Inspector
144
Chart Inspector
145
Hyperlink Inspector
145
QuickTime Inspector
147 Index
Contents
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Welcome to Keynote 2
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.”)
Preface
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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Welcome to Keynote 2
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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Welcome to Keynote 2
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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.
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Use a mask to frame
part of a photo.
Welcome to Keynote 2
Drag an image, movie, or
audio file from the iLife
Media Browser to a slide.
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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Welcome to Keynote 2
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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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Welcome to Keynote 2
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:
m
Choose Help > iWork Tour.
The first term after
from that menu.
Choose
is the menu you click; the next term is the item you choose
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Welcome to Keynote 2
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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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Welcome to Keynote 2
1
Overview of Keynote
1
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 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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The notes field: Add text about
individual slides. You can refer
to these notes during your
presentation—the audience
won’t see them.
Overview of Keynote
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:
m
Choose 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:
m
Choose View > Outline or View > Navigator (or click View in the toolbar and choose
an option).
To hide the slide organizer:
m
Choose 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:
m
Choose View > Navigator (or click View in the toolbar and choose Navigator).
To hide navigator view:
m
Choose 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:
Â
Choose Slide > New Slide.
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Select a slide and click New in the toolbar or press Return (these options create a
slide with the same master as the selected slide).
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Press Option and drag a slide until you see a blue triangle (this duplicates the
dragged slide).
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Select a slide and choose Edit > Duplicate.
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Select 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:
m Select the slides and press Shift-Tab (or drag the selected slides to the left).
To show or hide a group of slides:
m Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the first slide in the group.
To skip a slide when you play your slideshow:
m Select the slide and choose Slide > Skip Slide.
To display a skipped slide:
m Select the slide (it looks like a line in the slide organizer) and choose Slide > Don’t Skip
Slide.
To delete a slide:
m Select 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:
m Collapse 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:
m Select 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:
m Click the bullet.
To select a bullet (or bullets) and its subordinate bullets:
m Click between a bullet and its text, then drag down.
To move a bullet to a lower outline level on the same slide:
m Click 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:
m Click 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:
m Drag the selected bullets out of the current slide to a different slide.
To move bullets from one slide and create a new slide:
m Drag 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:
m Drag 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:
m Choose 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.
Click these buttons
to add or delete
slides, or play the
slideshow.
Add a free
text box, a
shape, a table,
or a chart.
Open the
Inspector window,
Media Browser,
Colors window, or
Font panel.
Click to choose a
new view, theme,
or master slide.
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Turn a group of objects
into one object (or one
into its components); move
an object on top of or
underneath other objects.
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.
6 To 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:
m Choose 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:
m Choose 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:
m In 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:
m Press the Control key while you click an object.
Shortcut menus are especially useful for working with tables and charts.
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2 Creating a Presentation
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:
1 Choose 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.
3 Click 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.
3 Select 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.
 Normal. 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.
 Self-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.
 Hyperlinks 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:
 Choose Slide > New Slide (or click New in the toolbar).
 Click New in the toolbar.
 Select 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
Title & Bullets—Left Content pages on which you can place bulleted text on the left
Title, Bullets & Photo Title page or section title with text and photo
Blank Graphics-rich layouts
fills the entire slide
and a graphic on the right
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.
3 Choose 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:
m Double-click in a title text box in the slide canvas and type your text.
To add bulleted text:
m Click 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
Drag a graphic file from
the Media Browser or
Finder to your slide.
bullet style, font, and text
size are already set.
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:
 Choose View > Show Media Browser (or click Media in the toolbar), choose iPhoto,
and drag a photo to the slide canvas.
 Drag a graphic file from the Finder to the slide canvas.
 Choose Insert > Choose, select the graphic file, and click Insert.
 To 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.
30 Chapter 2 Creating a Presentation
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