Apple Keynote - 3 User’s Manual

Keynote 3

User’s Guide

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6 Preface: Welcome to Keynote

Keynote Features at a Glance

What’s New in Keynote 3

How to Use Menus

Resources for Learning More

19 Chapter 1: Overview of Keynote

The Keynote Window

The Slide Canvas

Different Views

The Notes Field

Comments

Keynote Tools

33 Chapter 2: Creating a Presentation

33 Step 1:

35 Step 2:

41 Step 3:

42 Step 4:

44 Step 5:

Select a Theme

Create Your Slides

Organize Your Slides

Save Your Slideshow

Play Your Slideshow

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

Editing Text and Text Properties

Working With Graphics

Resizing, Moving, and Layering Objects

Including Sound and Other Media

Adding Webpages and Hyperlinks

Modifying Layouts

Changing the Slide Background

Retaining or Undoing Your Style Changes

80 Chapter 4: Changing Object Properties

Using Color and Image Fills

Changing Border Style and Color

Positioning Lines

Adding Shadows

Adjusting Opacity

Adjusting Images

Changing an Object’s Orientation

Changing an Object’s Size and Position

93 Chapter 5: Creating Tables

Adding a Table

Working With Table Cells and Borders

Entering and Editing Content in Table Cells

Formatting Tables

10 5

Adding Images or Background Colors

10 6

Formatting Numbers

10 8

Sorting Cells

10 9

Autofilling

110

Using Formulas

12 3 Chapter 6: Creating Charts

12 3

About Charts

12 7

Adding a Chart

12 9

Editing Chart Data

13 0

Formatting Charts

14 3 Chapter 7: Slide Transitions and Object Builds

14 3

Adding Transitions Between Slides

Contents

14 5

Creating Object Builds

14 7

Working With Object Builds

152

Creating Builds on Master Slides

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

153

Customizing a Presentation for Your Audience

15 6

Viewing Full-Screen Presentations

159

Finding Presentations With Keywords

160

Setting Presentation Options

163

Printing Your Slides

165

Exporting to Other Viewing Formats

17 2 Chapter 9: Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes

173

Modifying Master Slide Backgrounds and Layouts

17 8

Changing Default Styles for Text and Objects

18 0

Saving a Custom Theme

181

Creating a Custom Theme

18 2 Index

Contents

Welcome to Keynote

With Keynote, impressive presentations are just the beginning. This preface provides an overview of Keynote features and lists resources for learning more.

Keynote is a robust program for creating professional-quality presentations. Powerful, simple tools make it easy for you to deliver compelling presentations, create studioquality storyboards and portfolios, and build 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. Add engaging animations to text and tables, and save your ideas with comments.

Your Keynote presentation can be viewed in several ways. You can watch it on a computer, project it from a computer to a large screen, or print it. You can also export your presentation as a set of image files or to Flash, QuickTime, PowerPoint, HTML, 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

The next few pages provide a quick overview of Keynote features. The remainder of the book gives step-by-step instructions for using Keynote to create, revise, and share your slideshows.

Professional-Quality Designs

Keynote provides a wide variety of themes—including HD themes—you can use to quickly create stunning presentations. 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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Animated Text and Slide Transitions

Bring your text to life with studio-quality text animations. Choose from an array of text and word animations. Animate text so that lines enter the slide one at a time or in groups. Add interest by using two or more text columns on a slide and by using special styles of text and image bullets. Transition between slides with dramatic transition effects such as swoosh, droplet, and reflection.

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Powerful Animation Tools

Create complex slide animations quickly and easily—any element can be moved and animated. Mix charts, tables, and graphics on the same slide. Fine-tune animations by changing the order in which elements appear and how they enter and exit a slide.

Create sophisticated animations (“object builds”) and slide transitions. Synchronize the entry and exit of multiple objects on a slide.

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Easy-to-Use Media Tools

Find items you’ve stored in your iPhoto or iTunes library, or in your Movies folder, and drag photos or tunes right to a slide. Add images and adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, hue, sharpness, and light cutoff levels right within Keynote.

Choose iPhoto, iTunes, or Movies.

Select the album where your picture is located.

Drag a thumbnail to the slide or to an image well in one of the inspectors.

Search for a file by name.

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Free-Form Curves, Shapes, and Masks

Create any shape using Bézier curves. Crop images by using masks of different shapes. Choose from predrawn shapes or create your own custom shape to use as a mask. With a mask, you reveal only the part of an image you want to show on a slide, without altering the original file.

Create a custom mask to frame part of a photo.

Position the mask over the image, and then optionally edit the mask. Here, it’s rotated and resized.

The original image is framed by the mask.

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Realistic 3D Charts

Show off 2D data in 3D-rendered bar, line, and area charts. Choose realistic woodgrain, metal, and other textures. Apply multiple different lighting styles for interesting reflections.

Tables with Calculation and Sorting

Automate calculation in any cell in a table using arithmetic formulas and values from other cells. Sort by row or column, in ascending, descending, numerical, or alphabetical order. Format numbers with currency formatting and dates with international standards.

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Easy-to-Use Inspectors

Keynote inspectors makes it easy to format your slides as you work. You use the ten inspectors to format most elements in a slideshow.

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Tools for Advanced Presenters

Set up a projector display for the audience and your laptop screen as the presenter display, or rehearse your presentation by viewing the show on only one 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. Control movie playback during a presentation using keyboard shortcuts. Jump to any slide by typing its slide number.

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What’s New in Keynote 3

Keynote 3 provides new features that help you create attractive, compelling slideshows.

New themes

Use Apple-designed themes for presentations, storyboards, and self-running presentations. Apply new HD themes with 16 x 9 aspect and pixel dimensions of 1920 x 1080.

3D-rendered charts with animations

Show off results in realistic and beautiful 3D charts, apply multiple different light styles for different reflections, and create beautifully 3D-rendered bar, line, and area charts of 2D data. View charts in wood grain, metal, and other textures. Use the 3D Rotation Angle wheel for complete control of chart viewing angle.

Cinematic animations with interleaved builds

Captivate the audience with cinematic slide transitions, interleaved graphic builds, and text animations. Create a cinematic experience with new, animated slide transitions. Draw attention to tables, charts, images, and text with new build effects: blinds, swoosh, and speedy. Interleave builds of bulleted text, tables, and even charts in any sequence and by groups of items, such as bullets or bullet groups, table rows or columns or cells, images, and more.

iPhoto-like image adjusting

Obtain the perfect visuals by fine-tuning image appearance. Adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, hue, sharpness, and light cutoff levels separately on any image right within Keynote. View immediate changes to image settings and easily revert to your original.

New shapes and Bézier drawing with smooth curves

Add shapes like polygons or stars, or draw custom shapes with curves, right within Keynote. Draw completely custom shapes with smooth paths using Bézier curves, and fine-tune Bézier shapes by changing curve angles or even by adding new curve points. Add predrawn shapes such as stars and editable polygons.

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Image masking with any shape

Focus on any part of an image using any shape or custom Bézier curves. Mask images with any shape to remove a background or any other unwanted object. Create your own mask using Bézier curves in any shape.

Enhanced iLife integration

Share your presentation with iDVD and iPhoto. Export your presentation into iDVD with chapter breaks between slides and active hyperlinks. Export your slides directly into iPhoto with variable compression and into HTML for adding slide content on the web. See all your export options in a new, easy-to-use export window.

Tables for organizing information

Organize information and graphics in tables with calculations and automatic sorting. Easily add tables with coordinated look-and-feel for each theme. Automate calculation in any cell in a table using arithmetic formulas and values from other cells; create summary row and columns with value sums, averages, count, and more. Sort by row or column, ascending or descending, numerical or alphabetical, and format numbers with currency formatting and dates with international standards.

Tools for advanced presenters

Enjoy more control over your presentations. Use practice view to rehearse your presentation using a single screen to show current and next slides, notes, elapsed time, and a clock. Use light table view to display slides in multiple rows and columns for an at-a-glance view and sorting of your presentation. Control movie playback during a presentation using a video scrubber. Lock a kiosk presentation with a password to a slideshow playing in Keynote. Add comments directly on the slide canvas as reminders that are neither printed nor projected.

Text in multiple columns and bullets in multiple text boxes

Use multiple columns for text on a slide, and add text boxes where you need them.

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How to Use Menus

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

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

Resources for Learning More

To get the most out of Keynote, consult the following resources:

Tour

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

Keynote 3 User’s Guide

This full-color PDF document provides detailed information about Keynote features and instructions for working with slides.

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.”

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.

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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. Help tags in the Inspector window are useful for learning about the effects of various options.

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

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.

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 > Service and Support.

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Overview of Keynote

This chapter introduces you to the windows and tools you use to create presentations with Keynote.

When you create slides in Keynote, you create a Keynote document. The entire slideshow—including all the graphics, media, and chart data—is contained within this one document. This means that you can easily move the presentation 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

The notes field

These sections show detailed views of your slides and slideshow as you work. It’s easy to organize your slides and navigate through them, even with long slideshows.

The toolbar: Customize it

to include the tools you use most often.

The slide canvas: Create each slide by typing text and adding media.

The slide organizer: View 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 a magnification level from the pop-up menu at the bottom left of the slide

canvas. Or choose View > Zoom > [zoom level].

Different Views

Keynote gives you a choice of four views to streamline the way you work. Â Navigator: In navigator view, use the slide organizer at the left side of the Keynote

window to organize the slides in your presentation. This view displays a thumbnail image of each slide. You can rearrange slides by dragging them, and you can indent slides to group them. Navigator view is good for graphics-rich presentations.

Â Outline: Use outline view to see a text version of your slides in the organizer. This is

a good view for presentations that contain mostly text. As in navigator view, you can rearrange and indent slides.

Â Slide Only: Switch to slide only view when you want to hide the slide organizers

and concentrate only on slides.

Â Light Table: Light table view shows your slides as if they were arranged on a

photographer’s light table. You can move slides around until you have the sequence you want.

To change from one view to the other:

m Click View in the toolbar and choose an option (or choose View > Navigator, Outline,

Light Table, or Slide Only).

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To hide the slide organizer:

m Click the View button and choose Slide Only or Light Table (or 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.

To show navigator view:

m Click View in the toolbar and choose Navigator (or choose View > Navigator).

You can see your master slides in navigator view by dragging the bar at the top (or by clicking View in the toolbar and choosing Show Master Slides). 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.

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Working With Slides

When you create a new slideshow, Keynote automatically creates a title slide for you. When you add the first slide after that, Keynote automatically switches to a “Title & Bullets” slide layout, unless you choose a different master for the first slide. You can change the master used for that or any other slide by clicking Master in the toolbar and choosing a different layout.

If you choose a different master for the first slide, the next slide you insert will use the master you chose. When you add a new slide, it uses the same master as the selected slide (except in the case described above).

To add a slide, do one of the following:

Â Select a slide and press Return. Â Click the New (+) button in the toolbar (or choose Slide > New Slide).

To duplicate a slide:

m Press Option and drag a slide in the navigator until you see a blue triangle (or choose

Edit > Duplicate).

To copy a slide:

m Select a slide, choose Edit > Copy, select another slide, and choose Edit > Paste.

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 slide (known as 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.

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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 subordinate slides grouped below it (known as “children”), 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.

Outline View

Outline view displays the title and bullet-point text of each slide in your slideshow. This view is most useful for seeing the flow of text-rich presentations. All 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.

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

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

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

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.

To show outline view:

m Click View in the toolbar and choose Outline (or choose View > 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.

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, and 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.

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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 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.

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 Click View in the toolbar and choose Show Presenter Notes (or choose View > Show

Presenter Notes).

To learn how to view your notes during slideshow playback, see Chapter 8, “Viewing, Printing, and Exporting Your Slideshow.”

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Comments

Comments provide an easy way to save your ideas and place them on slides as reminders. You can move comments anywhere on the slide canvas. Your comments appear on the display while you’re editing, and they appear on the presenter display, but they don’t appear to your viewers when you play the presentation.

If you use comments frequently, you may want to add the Comments button to the toolbar. To do so, choose View > Customize Toolbar and drag the Comments button to the toolbar.

To add a comment:

1 Choose Insert > Comment.

2 Type a note, idea, or reminder.

3 Drag the comment wherever you want to place it on the canvas.

Note: Because comments are always on top of the slide canvas, they may obscure parts of your slide content. Simply drag the comments out of the way or hide them to reveal the content beneath.

To hide or show comments:

1 Click the View button in the toolbar and choose Hide Comments (or choose View >

Hide Comments).

2 To bring the comments back, click the View button and choose Show Comments.

To resize a comment:

m Drag the lower-right corner.

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To close a comment:

m Click the x in the upper-right corner.

To change text styles and background colors:

Â Tex t: See “Editing Text and Text Properties” on page 45 for details on changing text

style and format.

Â Color and fill: See “Using Color and Image Fills” on page 80 for details on changing

the background color in comments.

To print with comments showing:

1 Make sure the comments appear on the slide canvas, as described earlier.

2 Print the document.

Your comments, along with standard slide content, are printed as they appear on the screen.

Keynote Tools

Keynote tools give you one-click access to many of the actions you’ll use as you create presentations.

The Toolbar

As you work in Keynote and get to know which commands you use most often, you can customize the toolbar by adding, removing, and rearranging toolbar buttons.

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Click these buttons to add or delete slides or to play the slideshow.

Add a free text box, shape, table, chart, or comment.

Open the Inspector window and Media Browser.

Adjust images.

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.

Open the Colors window; click the arrow to open the Fonts window.

To customize the toolbar:

Â Press Control and click the toolbar, and choose Customize Toolbar. You can also

choose View > Customize Toolbar.

Â To add an item to the toolbar, drag its icon to the toolbar at the top. Â To remove an item from the toolbar, drag it out of the toolbar. Â To rearrange items in the toolbar, drag them. Â To make the toolbar icons smaller, select Use Small Size. Â 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. This restores the original group of icons that appeared the first time you opened Keynote.

If you’re not sure what a button does, drag it to the toolbar (in the Customize dialog) and click Done. You can now hold the pointer over the icon in the toolbar to see the button’s description.

Keynote Inspectors

Keynote inspectors make it easy to format your slides as you work. Most elements of your slideshow can be formatted using the ten inspectors. Each inspector controls one aspect of slide formatting. For example, you use the Document Inspector to choose slideshow settings.

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Click one of these buttons to display a different inspector.

To open the Inspector window:

m Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector).

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

To open more than one Inspector window at the same time:

m Choose View > New Inspector.

Media Browser

The Media Browser gives you quick access to music, photo, and movie files that you may want to use in a presentation.

To open the Media Browser:

m Click Media in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Media Browser).

To view your media files:

m Choose iTunes, iPhoto, or Movies from the pop-up menu at the top of the Media

Browser window.

To add a media file to your presentation:

m Select a music file, photo, or movie file, and then drag it to a slide.

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To search for a media file:

m Type the title or filename in the search field at the bottom of the Media Browser

window.

If you’ve added a title to an image, Keynote won’t find the image. Keynote searches on whatever name is visible in the Media Browser. For details about the Media Browser, see “Using the Media Browser” on page 68.

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 Click Colors in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Colors).

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 Click Fonts in the toolbar (or choose Format > Font > Show Fonts).

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

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.

To see the list of keyboard shortcuts:

m In Keynote, choose Help > Keyboard Shortcuts.

Many commands are also available in shortcut menus that you can access directly from the object with which you are working. Shortcut menus are especially useful for working with tables and charts.

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To open a shortcut menu:

m Hold down the Control key while you click an object.

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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 to the Keynote application icon. The document opens in Keynote, and you may apply a theme to the document if you wish.

You can export Keynote documents to PowerPoint. For more information, see “PowerPoint” on page 167.

Step 1: Select a Theme

Use Keynote themes to 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 various textures and moods to suit different kinds of presentations.

Starting a New Project

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 and specify a particular theme for any new documents you create.

To start a new project:

1 Double-click the Keynote icon and select a theme.

2 Choose a slide size from the Slide Size pop-up menu.

For highest quality playback, your slide size should match the screen resolution of the display on which the slideshow will appear. Keynote offers an HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 (not all themes offer this resolution). Most projectors work best with slides set at the 1024 x 768 size; newer projectors can display slides at a higher resolution. All Keynote themes come optimized for 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 sizes.

If your display is larger than one of the sizes mentioned here, you can set a custom slide size for your Keynote presentation. For more information, see “Changing the Slide Size” on page 162.

Note: Higher resolutions require more memory and faster processing.

3 Click Choose.

Changing the Theme

You can change the theme for a slideshow at any time.

To apply a different theme to a slide presentation:

m Click Themes in the toolbar and scroll to select a theme (or choose File > Choose

Theme and select a theme).

You can choose to apply the new theme to the selected slide or to all the slides when you use the Theme Chooser.

Setting a Theme to Use for New Documents

You can specify a particular theme to be used for any new documents you create. This means that you bypass choosing a theme each time you create a new slideshow. You can still change the theme for a slideshow at any time.

To specify the theme used for new documents:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click General.

2 Select “Use theme” and click Choose.

3 Select the theme you want, choose a slide size from the Slide Size pop-up menu, and

click Choose.

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To modify themes or create your own, see Chapter 9, “Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes.” You can use more than one theme in a presentation; see “Using Multiple Themes” on page 42.

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. Note that hyperlinks are available in a normal presentation, not just in a hyperlinks-only presentation. Â 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.

Â Self-playing: These presentations advance automatically, the way a movie plays

(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 “Creating Self-Playing Presentations” on page 153.

Â 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 155.

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:

Â Click the New (+) button in the toolbar (or select a slide in the slide organizer and

press Return). You can also choose Slide > New Slide to insert a slide.

Important: Save your work often by choosing File > Save. For more details about

saving Keynote documents, see “Step 4: Save Your Slideshow” on page 42.

Using Master Slides

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

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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 & Subtitle Title page or section titles within your presentation

Title & Bullets Content

Title & Bullets—2 Column Content you want to appear side by side

Bullets General content pages that require bulleted text; the text area

Blank Graphics-rich layouts

Title—Top or Center Title page or section titles within your presentation

Photo Horizontal Horizontal photo with title below

Photo Vertical Vertical photo with title and subtitle on the left

Title, Bullets & Photo Title page or section title with text and photo

Title & Subtitle Title page or section titles requiring a subtitle

Title & Bullets—Left or Right Content slides on which you can place bulleted text on the left or

fills the entire slide

right and a graphic on the other side of the slide

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.

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 Select 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.”

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Adding Text

Master slides provide placeholder text (which you replace with your text) for slide titles and body text. Choose a master slide with the combination of title text and body text that best suits the slide’s content.

Title text is larger than body text. Most body text is bulleted (preceded by a “dot” or other ornament), but you can change from bulleted to non-bulleted text. To learn more about text formatting, see See “Using the Text Inspector” on page 46.

If the slide you’re working on doesn’t have title text or body text, you can either choose a different master or select the Title or Body checkboxes in the Appearance pane of the Slide Inspector.

To add title text to a slide:

m Double-click in a title text box on the slide canvas and type your text.

To add text:

m Click in a body text box on the slide canvas and begin typing.

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

For information about creating text boxes, see “Adding Text Boxes” on page 45.

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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 text. The 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, see Chapter 3, “Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media.”

Adding Graphics

You can easily add photos, sound files, and movies to your presentation. For details, see “Including Sound and Other Media” on page 68.

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

Â Click Media in the toolbar to open the Media Browser (or choose View > Show

Media Browser), choose iPhoto, and drag a photo to the slide canvas.

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

Â Drag a graphics file from the Finder to the slide canvas. Â Choose Insert > Choose, select the graphics file, and click Insert. Â To create a new slide with the graphic on it, drag the graphics file from the Finder to

the slide organizer.

You can modify a graphic’s colors, alignment, orientation, and other properties by using the inspectors. Images can be adjusted with the Adjust Image window. 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 understandable 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.

To turn on rulers:

m Click the View button in the toolbar and choose Show Rulers (or choose View > Show

Rulers).

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To change the unit of measure in the rulers:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click Rulers.

2 Choose an item from the Ruler Units pop-up menu.

Make sure that “Display ruler units as percentage” is deselected. Selecting this option displays measurements as a percentage of the distance across the slide, rather than in the chosen unit of measure.

To place the ruler’s horizontal origin point at the left edge of the slide:

m In the Rulers pane of Keynote preferences, deselect “Place origin at center of ruler.”

After you’ve placed graphics exactly where you want them on the slide, you can lock them to the slide canvas to prevent them from being accidentally moved as you work.

To lock an object to the slide canvas:

m Select the object and choose Arrange > Lock.

You cannot modify an object that has been locked to the slide canvas. To unlock an object, select the object and choose Arrange > Unlock.

Note: If you often lock and unlock objects, you can add buttons to the toolbar for these commands. Choose View > Customize Toolbar.

Changing the Appearance and Behavior of Alignment Guides

You can place your own alignment guides on any slide to help you line up objects where you want them.

To place alignment guides on a slide:

1 Click the View button in the toolbar and choose Show Rulers (or choose View > Show

Rulers).

The rulers appear at the top and left side of the slide canvas.

2 Place the pointer on a ruler and drag to the slide canvas.

3 Drag the yellow guide wherever you wish on the slide canvas.

You can add alignment guides to a master slide so that they appear on any new slide based on that master. For more information, see “Adding Alignment Guides” on page 176.

To remove alignment guides that you have placed on a slide:

m Drag the alignment guide off the edge of the slide canvas.

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If alignment guides are getting in the way as you work, you can temporarily hide them.

To temporarily hide pop-up alignment guides:

m Hold down the Command key while dragging an object.

You can turn off pop-up alignment guides and size and position tags in the Rulers pane of Keynote preferences. You can make alignment guides appear only when object edges are aligned, or only when object centers are aligned.

To change the behavior of alignment guides and tags displayed when you move objects:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click Rulers.

2 To turn off the guides that appear when an object’s center aligns with another object

or the center of the slide canvas, deselect “Show guides at object center.”

3 To turn on the alignment guides that appear when an object’s edges align with

another object or the center of the slide canvas, select “Show guides at object edges.”

4 To turn off size and position tags, click General and deselect “Show size and position

when moving objects.”

If you change the alignment guides frequently, you may want to add the Guides button to the toolbar. To do so, choose View > Customize Toolbar and drag the Guides button to the toolbar.

To change the color of alignment guides:

m In the Rulers pane of Keynote preferences, click the Alignment Guides color well and

select a color in the Colors window.

Step 3: Organize Your Slides

Change the order of slides in your presentation by dragging them in one of the slide organizer views.

You can organize your slides into an outline by indenting related sets of slides and by showing or hiding individual slides or groups of slides as you work. Indenting or hiding slides in the slide organizer does not affect the flow of the final presentation. It is only a tool to make it easier to organize and navigate through large sets of slides.

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For more information about indenting and organizing slides, see “Different Views” on page 21.

Using Multiple Themes

As your presentation takes shape, you may want to use different themes for different slides within the same presentation. For example, you could have one look for slides about past business performance and another for sales projections.

To use multiple themes in a document:

1 In the slide organizer, select the slide or slides you want to have a different theme.

2 For simple theme changes on selected slides, click Themes in the toolbar and choose

a new theme.

3 For additional options, choose File > Choose Theme.

4 Choose Selected Slides from the Apply Theme To pop-up menu.

If you want to apply the new theme to all the slides, and not just to the selected slides, choose All Slides from the Apply Theme pop-up menu.

5 If you’ve modified theme defaults on individual slides, and you want to incorporate

these overrides into the new theme, select “Retain changes to theme defaults.”

For example, if you change the background fill on a few slides, and you want to use the same fill in the new theme, select this option. If you don’t select this option, the slides will use the new theme’s background fill.

6 Click Choose.

Moving Around in Your Presentation

You can easily go to the first or last slide in your presentation or to the previous or next slide.

To jump quickly to a particular slide:

m Choose Slide > Go To > [option].

Step 4: Save Your Slideshow

You should save your slideshow often. Keynote provides some special options for saving your slideshow, including saving a previous version and saving audio and movie files as part of the presentation. (For more information, see “Kinds of Slideshows” on page 35.)

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To save a Keynote file:

1 Choose File > Save.

2 Type a name for the slideshow and choose where you want to store it.

3 Click Save.

Keynote provides advanced saving options for special circumstances. To see these options, click the disclosure triangle (to the right of the filename) in the Save dialog.

Â When you add sound or movies to your slideshow, Keynote automatically saves

them with the file. This is helpful if you plan to transfer the slideshow to another computer. If you don’t want to save the file this way, click Advanced Options, and then deselect “Copy audio and movies into document.” (This option is on by default.)

If you deselect this option, and then transfer the slideshow to another computer, you need to transfer the sound and movie files as well. Selecting this option makes the file larger, so you may want to include media files (using Save As) only when you’re ready to move the slideshow to another computer.

Â If the presentation will be opened on a computer that doesn’t have the theme

installed, select “Copy theme images into document.”

This option ensures that all theme components appear correctly even if the theme is missing. Selecting this option makes the document file larger.

As you make changes to your slideshow, you can save one previous version.

To save a copy of the previous version when you save a Keynote document:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click General.

2 Select “Back up previous version.”

3 Choose File > Save.

With this preference selected, each time you save your document, the previously saved version of your document is renamed “Backup of <document name>” and is saved in the same folder as your document. This backup file does not include the changes made since the last time you saved; the document that includes the latest changes remains open. (Even if this option is selected, you won’t get a backup version the first time you save a document.)

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Step 5: Play Your Slideshow

You can show your finished presentation on your computer’s display or project it onto a screen for a larger audience.

To play the presentation on your computer:

1 In the Finder, double-click the Keynote document icon.

2 Click Play in the toolbar (or choose View > Play Slideshow).

Note: Clicking Play plays the slideshow starting with the currently selected slide. To play the slideshow from the beginning (if the first slide is not selected), hold down the Option key while you click Play.

3 Click to advance to the next slide.

4 To stop the slideshow, press Q or Esc.

Keynote provides many options for sharing your slideshow. You can:

Â Play the slideshow on a large screen or secondary display Â Save and share as a QuickTime or Flash movie, PDF file, or PowerPoint presentation Â Print the presentation

For more details about viewing and sharing your slideshow, see Chapter 8, “Viewing, Printing, and Exporting Your Slideshow.”

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3 Working With Text, Graphics,

and Other Media

By incorporating text, graphics, sound, and movies, you can create compelling presentations with Keynote.

It’s easy to add and modify text and the other elements you use in a presentation. This chapter describes in detail how to add various media to your presentations.

Editing Text and Text Properties

To add text to a text box or shape, simply click to select the text box or shape and start typing.

To enter and edit text in a text box:

1 Select the text box, or double-click the text, and start typing.

2 Adjust the text color, alignment, and font using the Text Inspector or Font panel, as

described in “Formatting Bulleted Text and Numbered Lists” on page 46.

Adding Text Boxes

Various master slides provide text boxes, but you can add a “free text box” to a slide and move the box wherever you want it. Free text boxes are similar to the text boxes provided in various master slides. The main difference is that text in free text boxes does not appear in outline view.

To create a free text box:

1 Click Text in the toolbar (or choose Insert > Text).

2 In the text box that appears, double-click the text and type.

Note: You can add bullets to paragraphs in free text boxes. To create formatted bullets (in which all text aligns and the bullet “hangs”), you use the Bullets pane of the Text Inspector. For details, see “Formatting Bulleted Text and Numbered Lists” on page 46.

3 When you’ve finished typing, click outside the text box. Or, to stop editing text and

select the text box, press Command-Return.

4 Drag the handles on the text box to change its width.

Free text boxes automatically grow or shrink vertically to accommodate the length of your text. You cannot make them taller by dragging. To make a free text box taller without expanding its contents, drag the selection handles to make the box narrower (that is, force the box to grow vertically).

You can drag text boxes anywhere on a slide. For more information about modifying text boxes, see “Resizing, Moving, and Layering Objects” on page 62.

Note: You can type text within a shape. See “Adding Text to Shapes” on page 59.

Formatting Bulleted Text and Numbered Lists

You can change the properties—including the font, color, or spacing of lines and words—of text at any time. For bulleted text, you can select from a range of bullet and numbering styles. You can even use an image of your own as a bullet. You make most text changes using the Text Inspector and Font panel.

Changing the Font

You can create engaging visual effects with text by changing its color, shadow, opacity, and orientation on the screen. To learn more about these options, see Chapter 4, “Changing Object Properties.”

To change the font:

1 Select the text you want to change and click Fonts in the toolbar (or choose Format >

Font > Show Fonts).

2 In the Font panel, select a collection, family, typeface, and size.

Using the Text Inspector

In the Text Inspector, you can adjust all basic text properties in your slides. Use it to change the color, alignment, and spacing of selected text. If you select bulleted text, you can change the bullet style.

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The Text Inspector button

Click the color well to change the color of selected text.

Use these buttons to align text.

Drag the sliders to adjust character, line, and paragraph spacing for selected text.

Change the space between text and the text box, table cell, or shape that contains it.

To open the Text Inspector:

m Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector, and then click the

Text Inspector button).

To change text color:

1 Select the text you want to change (or click in the text to place the insertion point).

2 In the Text Inspector, click the color well.

3 In the Colors window, select a color.

Changing Text Alignment and Spacing

You can align text within a text box left, right, center, or both right and left (called “justified”). You can also align text at the top, center, or bottom of the text box.

To adjust text alignment:

1 Select the text you want to change.

2 Click the horizontal or vertical alignment buttons at the top of the Text Inspector.

Note: A text box with more text than can be displayed always aligns at the top. Vertical alignment has no effect on free text boxes.

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Use the vertical alignment buttons to align text at the top, center, or bottom of the text box.

Use the horizontal alignment buttons to align text on the left, center, right, or both left and right (justified).

To adjust the spacing between lines of text within a paragraph or bullet:

1 Select the text you want to change (or select a text box).

2 In the Text Inspector, drag the Line slider to adjust the line spacing.

Dragging the slider to the left brings the selected lines closer together; dragging it to the right moves them farther apart.

You can set precise point values for spacing between lines of text in a paragraph or use preset measurements, which you can choose from the Line pop-up menu.

Line field: Type a value (or click the arrows) to specify the space between lines of text in a paragraph.

Line pop-up menu: Click the text

below the Line field and choose a line spacing option.

To set precise values for spacing between the lines of text in a paragraph:

1 Select the text you want to change.

2 In the Text Inspector, type a value in the Line Spacing field.

3 Choose an option from the Line Spacing pop-up menu.

Â Single: Standard space between lines of text. Â Double: Adds an extra line space between lines of text.

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Â Multiple: Sets line spacing values between single and double, or greater than

double.

Â At Least: The distance between lines is never less than the value you specify

and may be more, to prevent larger fonts from overlapping. Use this setting when the distance between lines should remain fixed, but you don’t want overlap if the text becomes large.

Â Between: Increases the space between the lines, instead of increasing the height of

the lines. In contrast, double-spacing doubles the height of each line.

To adjust the amount of space before or after a paragraph or bullet:

1 Select the text you want to change.

2 In the Text Inspector, drag the Before Paragraph or After Paragraph slider. Or, type a

specific amount (5 points, for example) in the text box.

To adjust the amount of space between characters:

1 Select the text you want to change.

2 In the Text Inspector, drag the character spacing slider.

Dragging the slider to the left brings the letters closer together; dragging it to the right moves them farther apart.

Setting Tabs and Text Indents

All text boxes have default indents and tabs. You can see indent and tab markers on the horizontal ruler when you choose View > Show Rulers and select some text on a slide. You can drag these markers to change text indents and tabs.

Click the ruler to

These markers indicate the left alignment of a bullet, the first line of text, and subsequent lines of text.

create a tab. Doubleclick the tab icon to change its type.

To create a tab:

1 Click in the text you want to adjust.

2 Click the horizontal ruler and drag the tab where you want it.

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To change a tab to a different type:

m Control-click the tab icon and choose a tab type from the shortcut menu. Or double-

click the tab icon in the ruler repeatedly until the type of tab you want appears.

Choose from among these tab types.

To insert a tab in bulleted text or table text:

m Press Option-Tab.

Adjusting Indents in Unbulleted Text

You can adjust the indents of unbulleted text by specifying where to put the left edge of the text, the amount of space between the left margin and the first line, and the amount of space from the right margin.

Left indent

First line indent

To set the indents for unbulleted text:

1 Select the text whose indentation you want to adjust.

2 To set the left edge of the text, drag the left indent marker.

3 To set where to begin the first line of text, drag the rectangular icon (“First line

indent,” shown above).

4 To set the right margin, drag the right indent marker.

Adjusting Indents in Bulleted Text

You can set indents for bulleted text using the Bullets pane of the Text Inspector.

To set the indents for bulleted text:

1 Select the text you want to adjust.

2 In the Text Inspector, click Bullets.

3 Type a number in the Bullet Indent or Text Indent field, or click the arrows.

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Right indent

Changing the Inset Margin

You can change the amount of space between text and its container (a text box, shape, or table cell). This measurement is called the “inset margin.” The amount you specify is applied equally around the text on all four sides.

Specify how much space there is around text.

Note: You can’t adjust the inset margin for bulleted text.

To adjust the amount of space around text:

1 Select the text.

2 In the Text Inspector, drag the Inset Margin slider, type a number in the Inset Margin

box (or click the arrows), and press Return.

Working With Bullets and Numbers

You can change text bullets to image bullets, use your own graphic for bullets, or choose not to use bullets for text. You can change bullets to numbers to create a numbered list.

Note: You can use bulleted text in both body text boxes and free text boxes.

To change the symbol used for bullets:

1 Select the text whose bullet you want to change, or select a body text box to change

all bullets.

2 In the Text Inspector, click Bullets.

Click to format bullets.

Select the bullet type, style, color, position, and size.

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3 Choose an option from the pop-up menu. For some options, you can adjust the size

and vertical alignment using the fields on the right.

Â No Bullets: Use this option to create plain text without bullets. Â Text Bullets: Choose an option from the pop-up menu or type the character(s) you

want to use in the text box. You can use any keyboard character. To change a text bullet’s color, click the color well and choose a color in the Colors window.

Â Image Bullets: Choose from one of the images provided. Â Custom Image: Select one of your own image files or drag an image from the

Finder or Media Browser to the image well. Use only small images as text bullets, or the images may not retain their clarity when they are reduced.

Â Numbers: Choose the number style (Arabic or Roman, for example) from the pop-

up menu.

Â Tiered Numbers: Indented (sub) paragraphs are numbered decimal style (2.1, 2.2,

and so on).

Important: Selecting the “Scale with text” checkbox maintains the bullet-to-text ratio

specified in the Size field, even if you change the font size.

To adjust the vertical alignment of a bullet (relative to its text):

1 Select the text you want to change.

2 In the Bullets pane of the Text Inspector, type a number in the Align box, or click the

arrows.

To adjust the size of a bullet:

m In the Bullets pane of the Text Inspector, type a number in the Size field or click the

arrows.

The bullets in the selected text grow larger or smaller than the text size, depending on how you set the percentage. The percentage is proportional to the text size.

Presenting Text in Columns

Sometimes you may want to create two text columns on a slide (for example, to present two concepts side by side). You can create columns in a text box by using the Columns pane of the Text Inspector.

To split text into columns:

1 Select the text box you want to change.

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2 Click Columns in the Text Inspector.

3 In the Columns field, type the number of columns you want, or click the arrows.

Type the number of columns you want, or click the arrows.

Column measurements appear here.

Text you type in the first column flows into the second column when the first column is full.

To set up different column widths:

1 Deselect the “Equal column width” checkbox.

2 To change width, double-click a column value in the column measurements list and

type a new value.

3 To change the space between columns, double-click a gutter value in the column

measurements list and type a new value.

Working With Graphics

Keynote accepts all standard graphics file formats, including the following:

Â GIF Â TIFF Â JPEG Â PDF Â PICT

In addition, Keynote provides the tools to add basic shapes to your slides, such as triangles, rectangles, and arrows, as well as custom shapes you design.

Note: Some images may be protected under copyright law. Make sure you have permission to use the images you want to include.

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Adding Shapes

You can draw shapes—such as lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, triangles, and arrows—directly in Keynote. You can draw custom shapes with curves you adjust.

Working with the shapes you create is the same as working with predrawn shapes. Your shapes can contain text. They can be resized and repositioned and can have the line style, color, shadow, opacity, and orientation you choose.

This section tells you how to create your own custom shapes and how to edit the contour of both predrawn and custom shapes.

Adding a Shape

You can add a shape by selecting a predrawn shape or by drawing the shape directly on the slide.

To add a shape:

1 Click Shapes in the toolbar (or choose Insert > [shape]).

2 Drag the selection handles to resize the shape.

You can draw shapes at the desired size on the slide canvas.

To draw a shape on the slide canvas:

1 Hold down the Option key while you click Shapes in the toolbar and choose a shape.

2 Release the Option key and move the pointer over the slide canvas until it becomes a

crosshair.

To size the shape from the center, continue holding down the Option key in this step and drag across the canvas.

3 Drag across the slide canvas to create the shape.

To constrain the shape (for example, to keep triangles equal on all sides), press the Shift key as you drag.

Adding a Custom Shape

You can create custom shapes with a variety of curves that you can adjust as needed.

To create a custom shape:

1 Click Shapes in the toolbar, and then select the draw tool icon (or choose Insert >

Shape > “Draw a Shape”).

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Draw tool icon

The pointer changes from an arrow to a small pen tip.

2 Click the cursor anywhere in the slide to create the first point of the custom shape.

3 To create a second point and connect it with the first point using a straight line, click a

second location.

To create a curved segment instead of a straight one, click the second location and drag the mouse to change the curve angle or extend the curve. Release the mouse when you’re satisfied with the curve.

The line that connects the two points has the default stroke style for the theme you’re using. You can change the line into another kind of line later by using the Stroke settings in the Graphic Inspector.

4 Repeat step 3 to create additional points as required. Every time you add a new point,

Keynote connects it with the preceding point using a line with the current stroke and with the first point using no stroke. The shape is filled with the default fill color for the theme you’re using, but you can change the fill later.

To delete a segment you’ve just created, press Delete. Pressing Delete again removes the preceding segment, too.

5 To stop drawing and close the shape (add a solid line between the last and first

points), click the first point.

To stop drawing and leave the shape open (no line between the last and first points) so that you can work with it more later, press ESC or double-click the last point created.

Your shape is an object that you can work with as you would with any other object.

To finish and close an open shape:

1 Click once in the shape to select it, and then click a second time to show its points.

2 Double-click one of the two points at either end of the open segment.

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3 To add additional points, click other locations as needed.

4 To stop drawing and close the shape, click the point at the end of the open segment.

Editing Predrawn and Custom Shapes

You can change the contour of predrawn and custom shapes by manipulating the points in the shape.

To make a predrawn shape editable:

m Select the shape, and then choose Format > Shape > Make Editable.

To make a custom shape editable:

m Click once in the shape to select it, and then click a second time to show its points.

To move one or more points:

m When the shape is editable, click a point and drag it to another location. To move

several points at the same time, hold down the Shift key as you click multiple points, and then drag the points.

Click a point and drag it to change the shape.

To delete one or more points:

m When the shape is editable, click a point and then press the Delete key. You can delete

several points at the same time by Shift-clicking multiple points and then pressing Delete.

To add a point:

1 When the shape is editable, press the Option key and let the mouse hover over the

shape’s border. The cursor changes into a pen tip.

2 Click the location on the border where you want to add a point.

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3 Move the point as needed.

To reshape a curve:

1 Make the shape editable.

2 Click a point on the curve you want to reshape. A control handle appears on both

sides of the point.

Drag a control handle or rotate one or both control handles to change the curve.

You can also drag a point to modify the curve.

3 To expand or contract the curve, drag the point or one of the control handles.

4 To change the angle of the curve, move the control handles clockwise or counter-

clockwise. You achieve different effects when you move the handles together or independently of each other. Experiment until you achieve the effect you want.

Â To move the handles together, press the Option key and drag one or the other of

them.

Â To move only one handle, press the Command key before dragging a handle.

To reshape a straight segment:

1 Make the shape editable.

2 Click a corner point.

3 Drag the point clockwise or counter-clockwise to change the angle between the two

attached segments.

Drag the point out or in to change the length of one of the segments.

To transform corner points into curved points and vice versa, do one of the following:

Â To change a corner point into a curved point, make the shape editable, and then

double-click the corner point.

Â To change a curved point into a corner point, make the shape editable, and then

double-click the curved point.

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Â To change all corner points in one or more shapes into curved points, select the

shape(s) and choose Format > Shape > Smooth Path.

Â To change all curved points in one or more shapes into corner points, select the

shape(s) and choose Format > Shape > Sharpen Path.

Editing Specific Predrawn Shapes

Some predrawn shapes have special built-in editing controls that you can use in addition to those described above.

To edit a rounded rectangle:

m Drag the circular control to the left to straighten the corners and to the right to

“round” them.

Drag to straighten or round the corner.

To edit single and double arrows:

m Use the three special controls to increase or decrease the tail’s length and width

without changing the shape of the arrowhead.

Drag to change the tail length.

Drag to change the size (width) of the arrowhead. The cursor is a fourdirectional arrow that you can move up or down (affects tail width) or to the left and right (affects arrowhead size).

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To edit a star:

m When you select a star shape, a slider appears. Drag the slider to increase or decrease

the number of points in the star.

Drag to change the angles between points in the star.

View the number of points currently in the star.

Drag to increase or decrease the number of points in the star.

To edit a polygon:

m When you select a polygon, a slider appears. Drag the slider to increase or decrease

the number of sides in the polygon.

View the number of sides currently in the polygon.

Drag to increase or decrease the number of sides in the polygon.

Adding Text to Shapes

You can add text to any shape.

To add text to a shape:

m Double-click the shape and type your text.

You can format the text within a shape the same way you format any other text. If there is more text than can show in the shape, the clipping indicator (+) appears. You can display the rest of the text by resizing the shape.

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The “+” means the shape contains more text than can be seen. To display the rest of the text, resize the object.

Changing Line and Fill Colors

You can change the line colors and fill colors of drawn objects. For more information, see Chapter 4, “Changing Object Properties.”

Adding Pictures From iPhoto

You can drag images directly from the Media Browser (or your iPhoto library) to a slide.

To add an image from the Media Browser:

1 Click the Media button in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Media Browser).

2 Choose iPhoto from the pop-up menu and navigate to the album you want.

3 Drag a photo to the slide.

Images can be placed in table cells as well as directly on the slide. For instructions, see “Adding Images or Background Colors” on page 105.

Adding Other External Graphics

You can easily add graphics files created in other applications to your Keynote slides.

To add a graphics file from another source:

m Choose Insert > Choose and select the file (or drag the file from the Finder to your

slide).

You can adjust the opacity and shadow of graphic objects, as well as make precise adjustments to their location and orientation on the slide. To learn more, see Chapter 4, “Changing Object Properties.”

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Using PDF Files as Graphics

If you intend to greatly enlarge or reduce a graphic’s dimensions, consider converting it to a PDF file before bringing it into Keynote. PDF files don’t lose their crispness when they are significantly resized. Other file types may not retain their clarity as well when they are enlarged or reduced.

PDF files also provide a great way to move tabular data from Excel or AppleWorks documents into Keynote. If you have extensively formatted tables in these applications that you want to display in your slideshow, you can save the spreadsheet as a PDF file and then place that PDF file on a slide as you would any other external graphics file.

To convert an AppleWorks or Excel file to a PDF file:

1 Open the Excel or AppleWorks document you want to convert.

2 Choose File > Print.

3 Click PDF, and then choose “Save as PDF” from the pop-up menu.

4 In the Save dialog, type a name for the PDF file, choose a location, and then click Save.

You can include other kinds of objects, such as movies, charts, tables, hypertext links, and webpages. To learn more, see “Adding a Movie” on page 71 and “Adding Webpages and Hyperlinks” on page 73, as well as Chapter 5, “Creating Tables,” and Chapter 6, “Creating Charts.”

Note: You can copy a range of cells in an Excel document and paste the cells and their contents directly on a slide. Keynote creates a new table to hold the Excel data. Or, use the Grab utility (Finder > Services > Grab) to create a TIFF image of a selection in an Excel or AppleWorks document.

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Resizing, Moving, and Layering Objects

After you move text and graphics to the slide canvas, the text and graphics objects work much the same way. They can be moved in front or in back of one another and formatted or manipulated in similar ways. You work with grouped objects the same way you do with single objects. For more information, see “Grouping and Locking Objects” on page 65.

To move an object:

m Click the object to select it (make the selection handles appear), and then drag it.

Avoid dragging the object by the selection handles so that you don’t inadvertently resize the object.

To resize an object:

1 Click the object to select it.

If text is selected, you can select the text box, shape, or table cell by pressing Command-Return.

2 Move the pointer close to a selection handle until it changes to a double-headed

arrow.

3 Drag the selection handle to expand or shrink the object.

Â To resize the object from its center, press the Option key as you drag. Â To constrain the object’s proportions as it expands or shrinks, press the Shift key as

you drag.

To move an object in front or in back of another object on the slide canvas:

1 Select the object you want to move.

2 Choose Arrange > Bring Forward or Send Backward.

3 Repeat step 2 until the object is in the desired position.

4 To move an object to the top or bottom of the layered objects, choose Arrange >

“Bring to Front” or “Send to Back.”

Move an object to the top layer.

Move an object to the bottom layer.

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To rotate an object:

1 Select the object.

2 Hold down the Command key and move the pointer toward a selection handle until it

changes to a curved, double-headed arrow.

3 Drag the selection handle to rotate the object. Or, use the Rotate wheel or Angle field

in the Metrics Inspector.

Masking (Cropping) Images

You can crop images without actually changing the image files by masking parts of them. The mask contains a window that defines the boundaries of the cropped image. This allows you to import full images but display only part of them within the document. You can still reposition and resize images that have been masked.

The default mask is a rectangle, which you can resize as required. You can crop an image using the default mask or use a shape as a mask.

To mask an image using the default (rectangular) mask:

1 Insert the graphic you want to mask.

2 Select the object and choose Format > Mask. A mask appears over the image.

3 Drag the window to center it over the part of the image you want to feature. Drag the

selection handles to resize the mask. Â To constrain the window’s proportions, hold down the Shift key as you drag the

selection handles.

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Â To rotate the window, hold down the Command key as you drag the selection

handles.

Drag the selection handles to resize the visible portion of the image.

4 Double-click the window to make only the masked area visible. The masked image

has a dotted line around its visible borders.

5 Drag the selection handles to resize or Command-drag to rotate the visible portion of

the image, or drag the entire image to reposition it on the page.

Drag the selection handles to resize or rotate the visible portion of the image.

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Note: If you often mask objects, you can add the Mask button to the toolbar by choosing View > Customize Toolbar. The Mask button switches to Unmask when you select a masked image.

To unmask an image (so that the whole image reappears):

m Select the image and choose Format > Unmask.

To crop an image using a predrawn or custom shape as a mask:

1 Insert the image you want to mask.

2 Add a shape to the slide to use for the mask.

3 Select both the image and the shape.

4 Choose Format > Mask With Shape.

5 Drag the shape to center it over the part of the image you want to feature. Drag its

selection handles to resize it.

6 Edit the mask as desired.

You can resize, rotate, and move the mask, and you can edit the contour of the mask after double-clicking the edge of the shape. For details, see “Editing Predrawn and Custom Shapes” on page 56.

7 Double-click the window to make the masked area invisible.

To change the portion of a masked image that’s visible:

1 Double-click the masked image.

2 Click the dotted border of the resizable window to select it.

3 Drag the selection handles to resize or Command-drag to rotate the visible portion of

the image, or drag the window to feature a different part of the image.

Grouping and Locking Objects

You can group objects together so that they can be moved, copied, resized, and oriented as a single object. You can edit text associated with a shape or text object in a group, but you can’t modify other attributes of individual objects in the group.

Lock objects to the canvas to avoid inadvertently moving them as you work.

To group objects:

1 Hold down the Command (or Shift) key as you select the objects you want to group

on the slide canvas.

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2 Click Group in the toolbar (or choose Arrange > Group).

Note: Locked objects can’t be grouped.

To ungroup a grouped object:

m Select the object and click Ungroup in the toolbar (or choose Arrange > Ungroup).

Note: If you group an object that has a build effect assigned to it, the effect is removed. Ungrouping a grouped object with a build assigned to it removes the build effect.

To lock objects to the slide canvas:

1 Hold down the Command (or Shift) key as you select the objects you want to lock to

the slide canvas.

2 Choose Arrange > Lock.

After you lock individual or grouped objects, you can’t edit them until you unlock them.

To unlock an object:

m Select the object and choose Arrange > Unlock.

Note: If you often lock or unlock objects, you can add Lock and Unlock buttons to the toolbar by choosing View > Customize Toolbar.

Working With Photo Cutouts (Alpha-Channel Graphics)

Keynote themes provide photo “cutouts” in which you can place your own images. The result can look, for example, as if your image is in a picture frame. This effect is created by using a graphic (the picture frame part) that contains a transparent area where your image shows through. The transparent area is created using an alpha channel (a way of defining transparency); an alpha-channel graphic is an image that contains a transparent area.

Use alpha-channel graphics to create transparency around an irregularly shaped image, such as a tree, so that the image doesn’t have a rectangular white area around it.

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This textured foreground with photo corners and a white border is an alpha-channel graphic. The area between the photo corners is a transparent alpha channel.

Your photograph is placed behind the alpha-channel graphic and can be seen through its transparent region, so it appears that the photo is in the photo-corner frame.

To place an image behind a photo cutout window in a Keynote theme:

1 Drag your image from the Media Browser or the Finder to a cutout window on the

slide canvas.

2 To resize the image within the cutout, drag one of the selection handles.

3 Drag the image to adjust its position in the window.

Importing Alpha-Channel Graphics Into Keynote

When you bring an alpha-channel image into Keynote, there’s nothing else you have to do to make the transparency work. Just place the image, manipulate it, and move it to the back or front as you would any other image.

Many PDF, TIFF, and PSD files contain alpha-channel graphics. You can use various applications to create alpha-channel images, including Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Acrobat. See the instructions that come with the application to learn how to create alpha-channel images. To learn how to create your own frame in Keynote with an imported alpha-channel graphic, see “Layering Background Objects and Objects on Slides” on page 175.

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Including Sound and Other Media

You can add sound files to your project so that, for example, recorded music plays throughout your slideshow or a narration accompanies each slide. You can also add video or Flash movies that play within a slide.

Note: Some media files are protected under copyright law. Also, some downloaded music may be played only on the computer where the download occurred. Make sure you have permission to use the files you want to include.

Keynote accepts any QuickTime file type, including the following:

Â MOV Â FLASH Â MP3 Â MP4 Â AIFF Â AAC Â MPEG-4

Important: When you add a media file to a slideshow, the file automatically becomes

part of the Keynote document. Media files make your document much larger. You can save the document without media files by following these steps.

To save a document without media files:

1 Choose File > Save As, and then click Advanced Options.

2 Deselect “Copy audio and movies into document.”

3 Type a name and choose a location for the document, then click Save.

Using the Media Browser

The Media Browser lists all the media files in your iPhoto and iTunes libraries and in your Movies folder. You can drag images, music, and movies directly from the Media Browser to a slide or to an image well in one of the inspectors.

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Choose iTunes, iPhoto, or Movies.

Select a playlist.

Drag an audio file to a slide or to the Audio well in the Document Inspector.

Search for a file by name.

To open the Media Browser:

m Click Media in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Media Browser).

To add an image from iPhoto:

1 Click Media in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Media Browser).

2 Choose iPhoto from the Media Browser pop-up menu and select the album you want.

3 Drag an image file directly to the Keynote document window.

You can resize the image and move it backward or forward just as you would with other objects.

You can also drag an iPhoto file to an image well in the Graphic Inspector or Text Inspector to use it as an image fill or a custom bullet image (see “Using Color and Image Fills” on page 80 for more information).

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

Â Click Media in the toolbar, choose iTunes from the pop-up menu, select a playlist,

and drag a file to the slide canvas.

Â Drag a sound file from the Finder to the slide canvas.

You can more finely control when music starts and stops by moving it on or off the screen in an object build. To learn more about producing object builds, see “Creating Object Builds” on page 145.

Adding Narration and Other Audio

You can add music—a file or playlist from your iTunes music library, or any other sound file—to a Keynote document. You can add sound as a soundtrack for the entire slideshow, or you can add sound to a single slide.

If you add a soundtrack, the music starts playing when the slideshow starts. You can specify whether to play the audio once or repeatedly (or you can turn it off).

If you add a sound file to an individual slide, the sound plays when the slide appears and stops when you move to the next slide. You could, for example, record narration for each slide as an MP3 file; this technique is especially useful if you plan to export the slideshow as a self-playing QuickTime movie. (For more information, see “PowerPoint” on page 167.)

Note: To make sure that the audio plays on other computers, “Copy audio and movies into document” must be selected in the expanded Save dialog. This option is on by default.

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To add a soundtrack:

1 Open the Document Inspector.

The Document Inspector button

Drag a sound file here to play it throughout the slideshow. To repeat the sound file, choose Loop.

Set the volume for the soundtrack.

Preview your audio file.

2 In the Audio area, click iTunes Library.

3 Drag an audio file or playlist from the Media Browser to the Audio well in the

Document Inspector.

Note: You can also drag a sound file from the Finder.

4 To repeat the sound file as long as the presentation is playing, choose Loop from the

pop-up menu in the Document Inspector.

Adding a Movie

You can include movies in your slide presentation. After you add a movie to a slide, you can resize and position the movie as you would any other object.

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

Â Click Media in the toolbar, choose Movies from the pop-up menu, and drag a file to

the slide canvas. (For movies to appear in the Media Browser, they must be in the Movies folder in the Finder.)

Â Choose Insert > Choose, select the file, and click Insert. Â Drag a movie file from the Finder to the slide canvas.

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Note: To ensure that the audio plays on other computers, “Copy audio and movies into document” must be selected in the expanded Save dialog. This option is on by default.

When your slideshow plays, the movie starts the moment the slide appears. A movie control panel appears on the presenter display, but its controls vary depending on the size of your movie. For details, see “Viewing Movies” on page 159.

Adjusting Media Playback Settings

In the QuickTime Inspector, you can set the playback volume for sound and movies in your slideshow, and specify whether to play media files once, continuously, or forward and backward (Loop Back and Forth).

To set media playback preferences:

1 Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the

QuickTime Inspector button.

2 Click the movie to select it, then drag the Volume slider.

3 Choose an option from the Repeat pop-up menu.

The QuickTime

Inspector button

Select the frame to display until the movie starts playing.

Set playback repeat options. Set the playback volume.

Use these controls to view the movie as you edit your slideshow.

You can also specify which frame of the movie to display on the slide (called the “poster frame”) until the movie starts playing.

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To set the movie poster frame:

1 Click the movie to select it.

2 In the QuickTime Inspector, drag the Poster Frame slider until the movie displays the

image you want.

Adding Webpages and Hyperlinks

You can display a snapshot of a webpage (called a “web view”) on a slide. When the document is opened or the slideshow starts, Keynote can automatically update the snapshot with the current webpage. (The computer running the slideshow must be connected to the Internet.) By default, the snapshot is a hyperlink you can click during a presentation to open the webpage in a browser; you can turn off the link in the Hyperlink Inspector.

Insert a snapshot of a webpage that updates automatically when the slideshow plays.

The blue arrow means that, during a slideshow, you can click the web view to open the webpage in a browser.

To add a webpage snapshot to a slide:

1 Choose Insert > Web View.

2 In the Hyperlink Inspector, type the page’s URL (www.apple.com, for example).

The homepage specified in your default browser is inserted as placeholder text.

3 To automatically update the webpage periodically, select “Update automatically.”

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If you don’t select “Update automatically,” you can update the webpage at any time by clicking Update Now.

The webpage image is imported at full size, but you can resize and reposition it the same way you would with any other object. (The webpage image stays at the same resolution, but you can resize the web view to display less of the image.)

The webpage image is automatically a hyperlink, which you can click during a presentation to open the webpage in a browser. To turn off this feature, deselect “Enable as a hyperlink.”

When this option is selected, you can click the web view during a presentation to open the webpage in a browser.

You can create a web view by dragging a URL from a browser to the slide canvas.

Text, images, and shapes can also be turned into hyperlinks. By clicking a hyperlink during a presentation, you can do any of the following:

Â Go to a particular slide Â Open a webpage on the Internet Â Open another Keynote document Â Open an email message Â Exit the slideshow

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Turn text or images into hyperlinks that open another slide, a Keynote document, a webpage, or an email message. The blue arrow (visible only in edit mode) means the item is a clickable hyperlink.

To add a hyperlink:

1 Select the text, shape, image, or movie you want to turn into a hyperlink.

2 In the Hyperlink Inspector, select “Enable as a hyperlink” and choose an option from

the Link To pop-up menu.

3 Enter the required information.

For text hyperlinks, if you want the slide to display text other than the URL, select the text first.

Use this type of hyperlink To perform this action Notes

Slide Go to another slide in the

presentation

Webpage Open the webpage in a

browser (Safari, for example)

Keynote File Open another Keynote

document

Choose whether to display the next, previous, first, or last slide; the last slide viewed; or a specific slide number.

Keynote opens your default browser (specified in Safari preferences).

If you transfer the presentation to another computer, remember to transfer the other document as well.

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Use this type of hyperlink To perform this action Notes

Email Message Open a new mail message

with the specified subject and addressee

Exit Slideshow Stop the slideshow Keynote opens in edit mode

Keynote opens your default mail application.

to the last slide shown.

Drag a URL from a browser to an object on the slide canvas to create a web view hyperlink. By default, any text you type or drag that begins with “www,” “ftp,” or “http” automatically becomes a hyperlink as well.

To turn off automatic detection of URLs:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click General.

2 In the Hyperlinks section, deselect “Automatically detect email and web addresses.”

By default, all new text hyperlinks are underlined automatically. If you turn off this setting, you can add an underline to existing text if you decide to enable it as a hyperlink later.

To turn automatic underlining of new text hyperlinks on or off:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences and click General.

2 In the Hyperlinks section, select or deselect “Underline text hyperlinks on creation.”

To underline an existing text hyperlink:

1 Select the text you want to underline.

2 Click Fonts in the toolbar and choose Single from the Underline pop-up menu (or

choose Format > Font > Underline).

To make a hyperlinks-only presentation, choose “Hyperlinks only” from the Presentation pop-up menu in the Document Inspector. For more information, see “Hyperlinks-Only Presentations” on page 155.

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During a presentation, the pointer appears only on slides with hyperlinks. You can change this default so that the pointer appears whenever the mouse moves.

To specify when the pointer appears during a presentation:

1 Choose Keynote > Preferences.

2 Click Slideshow.

3 Choose one of the “Show pointer” options.

Modifying Layouts

Certain slide elements—such as a body text box and object placeholders—are preformatted and located in specific places on each master slide. You can easily add these elements to individual slides.

To change a slide’s layout:

1 Select the slide whose layout you want to change.

2 Choose View > Show Inspector and click the Slide Inspector button.

3 Click Appearance.

4 Select the elements you want to add.

The Slide Inspector button

To make new charts, tables, and images appear in a specific place on slides, select Object Placeholder.

Select items to add them to a slide.

Note: If you delete one of these items from a slide, the checkbox in the Slide Inspector is automatically deselected.

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If none of the available master slide layouts meets your needs, you can create your own master slide with whatever elements you want on it, and then create a new slide based on that master. If you are going to create a number of slides that include a graphic, you can add a “placeholder” box to contain it. You can also add a slide number.

To learn how to design your own master slide layouts, see Chapter 9, “Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes.”

Changing the Slide Background

You can use your own image as the background of any individual slide or change the slide’s background color. Make these changes in the Slide Inspector.

To change the slide background:

1 Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector) to open the

Inspector window, and then click the Slide Inspector button.

2 Click Appearance.

Choose a slide layout from among the master slides.

Choose a background color or image.

Drag an image here from the Media Browser or the Finder.

3 Choose a slide layout from the master slides pop-up menu.

4 Choose a background type from the Background pop-up menu.

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Â Color Fill: Gives the background a single, solid color. Click the color well and choose

a color in the Colors window.

Â Gradient Fill: Colors the background with a color gradient. Click each color well and

choose colors in the Colors window.

Â Image Fill: Uses your own image as a background. Click Choose and select an

image.

Â Tinted Image Fill: Uses your own image with a semi-opaque color tint over it. Click

Choose and select an image.

5 If you chose either of the image fills, choose a scaling option from the pop-up menu

(see “Filling an Object With an Image” on page 83).

To read more about working with image fills, color fills, and gradient fills, see “Using Color and Image Fills” on page 80.

Retaining or Undoing Your Style Changes

If you make style and formatting changes on a slide and then decide that you want to return to the theme’s default styles, you can reset the slide to the default styles.

To reset a slide to the default styles for the theme:

m Select the slide and choose Format > Reapply Master to Slide.

You can reset multiple slides at once by selecting them in the slide organizer.

If you make style and formatting changes throughout a Keynote document and then change the entire document to another theme, you can reset all styles to the theme defaults or keep the overrides you made. (For example, if you change the background fill on a few slides, you can keep the same fill in the new theme or use the new theme’s background fill.)

To retain style overrides when applying a new theme:

1 Click Themes in the toolbar and choose Theme Chooser (or choose File > Choose

Theme).

2 Select a new theme.

3 Select “Retain changes to theme defaults.”

4 Click Choose.

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4 Changing Object Properties

This chapter describes more advanced features for enhancing graphics and other objects in your presentation.

You can directly manipulate object properties such as color, line style and thickness, shadow, opacity, and orientation using the inspectors and the Colors window. You can adjust the brightness, color, and other properties of images. You can also draw custom shapes and modify both predrawn and custom shapes. This chapter tells you how.

Using Color and Image Fills

You can create interesting effects with color in Keynote. A shape can be filled with solid color, color gradients, or even with an image, such as a photo or other graphic.

You can also adjust an object’s opacity (transparency). You can even use fill and opacity effects to modify individual bars or pie wedges in charts.

Selecting Colors

You use the Colors window to select color for text, shapes, backgrounds, and shadows in Keynote.

To open the Colors window:

Â Click Colors in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Colors). Â Click a color well in one of the inspectors.

The color selected in the color wheel appears in this color well.

Use the slider to show lighter or darker hues in the color wheel.

Click to select a color in the color wheel.

Drag colors from the color well to store them in the color palette.

Drag the handle to open the color palette.

You can use the color wheel in the Colors window to select colors. Your color selection appears in the well at the top of the Colors window. You can save that color for future use by placing it in the color palette.

To open the color palette:

m Drag the handle at the bottom of the Colors window.

To save a color in the color palette:

m Drag a color from the color well to the color palette.

To apply a color in the Colors window to an object on the slide canvas, you must place the color in the appropriate color well of an inspector pane.

To remove a color from the color palette:

m Drag a blank square to the color you want to remove.

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To apply a color to an object on the slide canvas, do one of the following:

Â Select a color well in one of the inspectors, and then click a color in the color wheel. Â Drag a color from the color palette or color box to a color well in one of the

inspectors.

Â Drag a color from the color palette to an object on the slide.

Filling an Object with Color

Objects can be filled with a solid color or a color gradient, in which two colors gradually blend with each other. To change the color of an object, you use the Graphic Inspector.

The Graphic Inspector button

Fill a drawn object with a solid color, a color gradient, an image, or a tinted image.

To open the Graphic Inspector:

m Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the

Graphic Inspector button.

Using Colors and Gradients

Objects can be filled with a solid color or a color gradient, in which two colors gradually blend with each other.

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To set the solid fill color of an object:

1 On the slide canvas, select the object whose color you want to change.

2 In the Graphic Inspector, choose Color Fill from the Fill pop-up menu.

3 Click the color well below the Fill pop-up menu to open the Colors window.

4 Select a color in the Colors window.

To fill an object with a color gradient:

1 On the slide canvas, select the object whose color you want to change.

2 In the Graphic Inspector, choose Gradient Fill from the Fill pop-up menu.

3 Click each color well and choose a color in the Colors window to set the gradient.

4 To invert the gradient, click the double-headed arrow.

5 To change the direction of the gradient, use the Angle wheel and arrows.

Click the double-headed arrow to invert the gradient.

Set the direction of the gradient with the Angle wheel, or type in a value.

Click each color well to make color selections.

Filling an Object With an Image

You can place an image inside a drawn shape or inside a table cell.

To fill an object with an image:

1 Select the object in which you want to place an image.

2 In the Graphic Inspector, choose Image Fill or Tinted Image Fill from the Fill pop-up

menu, and select an image.

3 To change the image, click Choose, select the image, and click Open (or drag the

image file from the Media Browser or Finder to the image well in the Graphic Inspector).

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Use the pop-up menu to set a scaling option for the image within the object.

To change the image, drag a file from the Media Browser or the Finder into the image well.

4 Choose a scaling option from the pop-up menu.

Â Scale to Fit: Resizes the image to fit the object’s dimensions as well as possible. If

the object’s shape is different from that of the original image, parts of the image may not appear; blank space may also appear around the image.

Â Scale to Fill: Makes the image appear larger or smaller, sizing it to leave no space

around the image, even if the object and image have different shapes.

Â Stretch: Sizes the image to fit the object’s dimensions, but distorts it if the object

has a shape different from the original image.

Â Original Size: Places the image inside the object without altering its original

dimensions. If the image is larger than the object, you see only a part of the image in the object. If the image is smaller than the object, there is blank space around it.

Â Tile: Repeats the image inside the object, if the image is smaller than the object. If

the image is larger than the object, you see only part of the image inside the object.

Scale to Fill

Original Size

Tile (large image)

Scale to Fit

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Stretch

Tile (small image)

Tile (large image)

Changing Border Style and Color

For drawn objects (shapes), chart elements, and table cells, you can choose a style and color for the object’s border, or you can specify no border. You can also put a border around imported images. You set border line style and color using the Graphic Inspector and the Colors window.

To set the line style and color of an object’s border:

1 Select the object that you want to modify.

2 In the Graphic Inspector, choose a line style (or None) from the Stroke pop-up menu.

Choose a solid line, dotted line, dashed line, or no line.

Click the color well to choose a line color.

Enter the line thickness in this field. (Note: “px” means pixels.)

Choose line endpoints from these pop-up menus.

3 To change the line thickness, type a value in the Stroke size field (or click the arrows).

4 To change the line color, click the color well and select a color.

5 To give a line endpoints, such as arrowheads or circles, choose left and right

endpoints from the pop-up menus.

Note: Keynote also provides shapes in the form of arrows and double-headed arrows. You can add one using the Insert menu or the Shapes button in the toolbar.

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Positioning Lines

You can set the precise position of a line using the Metrics Inspector.

To set the precise position of a line:

1 Select the line.

2 In the Metrics Inspector, enter the X and Y coordinates to specify where you want the

line to start and end.

Adding Shadows

Shadows give your page an appearance of depth. An object’s shadow appears on any object behind it. You can create a variety of shadow effects, or remove the shadow from an object.

Select the checkbox to add a shadow to a selected object.

Change the shadow color in the color well.

To create or remove a shadow for an object:

1 Select the object you want to modify.

2 In the Graphic Inspector, select the Shadow checkbox to add a shadow to the object.

Deselect the Shadow checkbox to make the shadow go away.

3 Set the angle for the shadow using the Angle wheel.

Change the angle of the shadow with the Angle wheel.

Offset, Blur, and Opacity values can change the look of the shadow.

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4 Adjust the shadow offset by typing a number in the Offset box.

A high shadow offset value makes an object’s shadow appear longer and slightly separated from the object.

5 Set the shadow blur by typing a number in the Blur box.

A high blur value makes the object’s shadow appear more diffuse; a low value gives the shadow more sharply defined edges.

6 Set the shadow opacity by typing a number in the Opacity field. (Shadow opacity is

separate from object opacity, which is set using the Opacity slider at the bottom of the Graphic Inspector.)

7 To change the color for the shadow, click the color well and select a color.

This object has the default shadow properties.

This object has a different shadow color.

This object’s shadow has a high offset value.

This object’s shadow has the lowest blur factor.

This object’s shadow has a high blur factor.

This object’s shadow is set to a different angle.

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Adjusting Opacity

You can create interesting effects by making objects more opaque or less opaque. When you put a low-opacity object on top of another object, for example, the bottom object shows through the top object. Depending on how high or low you set the opacity, the objects beneath can be highly visible, partly obscured, or completely blocked from view (at 100-percent opacity). You can change opacity settings for any visual object on the slide canvas, including drawn shapes, pictures and other image files, and movies. Set object opacity using the Graphic Inspector.

To change an object’s opacity:

1 Select the object.

2 In the Graphic Inspector, drag the Opacity slider.

Note: For drawn shapes, you can set fill-color opacity separately from object opacity. If you move the Opacity slider in the Colors window to modify a fill color, the opacity value becomes equivalent to 100-percent object opacity. Then, when you change the object opacity in the Graphic Inspector, you are changing it relative to the opacity you set in the Colors window.

This circle is set to 100% opacity.

The fill color was set to 50% opacity in the Colors window. The circle’s outline was set to 100% opacity in the Colors window.

This circle is set to 50% opacity.

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Adjusting Images

For images, including those you use to fill a shape, you can change the brightness, contrast, and other settings to improve the quality of an image or to create interesting effects. Adjustments you make don’t affect the original image; they affect only the image’s appearance in Keynote.

To adjust an image:

1 Select the image.

2 Click the Adjust button in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Adjust Image) to open

the Adjust Image window.

Adjust the contrast of light and dark tones.

Adjust the lightness.

Change the color intensity.

Introduce more warmth or coolness.

Change the amount of red or green tones.

Sharpen or soften the focus.

Adjust shadows and highlights. Observe the relationship between shadows and highlights.

Restore original settings.

Change the levels of dark and light tones.

Enhance colors automatically.

3 Use the controls to make the following adjustments.

Â Brightness: Makes the overall image lighter or darker.

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Â Contrast: Makes different parts of the image stand out. You can make shadows

darker, sharpen the edges of objects, and make colors stand out more. If you increase the contrast for a photo a lot, it looks more like an illustration.

Â Saturation: Adjusts color vibrancy by deepening or lightening colors. Â Temperature: Acts as a kind of “white balance” corrector. You can introduce more

warmth (more orange tones) or coolness (more blue tones).

Â Tint: Changes the amount of red or green tones in the image. Â Sharpness: Sharpens or softens the image’s focus. Â Exposure: Lightens an underexposed image or increases the details of an

overexposed image.

Â Levels: Shows the relationship between shadows (depicted on the left side of the

display) and highlights (depicted on the right side) in your image. Use the sliders to change the tonal range by changing the amount of black (left slider) or white (right slider) in the image.

Â Auto levels: Click the Auto Levels button to have Keynote enhance colors

automatically.

4 To restore the original settings, click Reset Image.

5 To save any changes you made, save the document.

The settings you make are preserved (sliders remain at their altered positions).

Changing an Object’s Orientation

You can flip or rotate any object by using the Metrics Inspector. For instance, if you have an image of an arrow that you want to use in your slideshow, but you need it to point in a different direction, you can reverse its direction vertically or horizontally, or point it at any angle.

To open the Metrics Inspector:

m Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the

Metrics Inspector button.

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The name of the selected image or movie appears here.

Resize objects to exact dimensions by specifying height and width.

Click to return a resized object to its original size.

Place an object precisely on the canvas by specifying X and Y coordinates.

Flip an image sideways or upside down using these buttons.

Rotate an object with this wheel.

To flip or rotate an object:

1 Select the object you want to rotate.

2 In the Metrics Inspector, use the Rotate wheel to set the orientation of the object, or

click the horizontal or vertical Flip buttons to flip the object horizontally or vertically. You can also specify the angle by typing a number in the Angle field.

Note: You can add Flip Vertically and Flip Horizontally buttons to the toolbar by choosing View > Customize Toolbar.

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Changing an Object’s Size and Position

In addition to dragging objects and their selection handles, you can use the Metrics Inspector to make precise adjustments to the size and position of objects on the canvas.

To set the precise size of an object:

1 Select the object you want to resize.

2 In the Metrics Inspector, type a number in the Width and Height fields (or click the

arrows to increase or decrease the number).

To maintain the width/height ratio when you resize an object:

m Select “Constrain proportions,” or hold down the Shift key as you drag a selection

handle.

Select to maintain the aspect ratio when you resize the object.

To return an object to its original size:

m Select the object and click Original Size in the Metrics Inspector.

To set the precise position of an object:

1 Select the object you want to position.

2 In the Metrics Inspector, enter X and Y values in the Position fields.

The specified coordinates determine the position of the object’s upper-left corner.

Â The X value is measured from the left edge of the slide canvas. Â The Y value is measured from the top edge of the slide canvas.

The X and Y coordinates specify the location of the upper-left corner of the object’s container box. If an object is rotated, the X and Y coordinates specify the location of the “new” upper-left corner.

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5 Creating Tables

Use tables to organize and sort information, create interesting layouts, and perform calculations on numeric data. This chapter covers basic table design and use.

Keynote provides powerful features for making attractive, compelling tables that can contain text or graphics. You can also use a table to present numeric data, complete with formulas and number formatting.

Adding a Table

Add a table when you want to organize information or compare sets of data. When the table is complete, you can create interesting slide animations in which table elements appear cell by cell, row by row, or column by column.

To place a table on a slide:

1 Click Table in the toolbar (or choose Insert > Table).

Keynote places a table on the slide, and the Table Inspector opens.

2 To resize the table, drag a selection handle.

3 To reposition the table, drag it to where you want it.

You can also draw a table on the slide canvas.

To draw a table on the slide canvas:

1 Hold down the Option key and click Table in the toolbar.

2 Release the Option key, and then move the pointer over the slide canvas until it

becomes a crosshair.

3 Drag across the slide canvas to create a table any size you want.

To size the table from the center, continue to hold down the Option key while dragging the crosshair pointer across the canvas.

As you drag, the number of rows and columns increases or decreases with the size of the table. To constrain the table’s proportions, hold down the Shift key as you drag.

To open the Table Inspector:

m Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the

Table Inspector button. Use the Table pane for general table formatting. Use the Numbers pane when you want to use formulas (see “Using Formulas” on page 110) or formatted numbers (see “Formatting Numbers” on page 106).

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The Table Inspector button

Type the number of table rows and columns.

Select to add a specially formatted header row or column.

Add or delete rows or columns, merge cells, split rows, or split columns.

Select to make rows resize to accommodate content.

Select table columns, rows, and borders.

Specify column width and row height.

Working With Table Cells and Borders

You enter text in a table cell by selecting the cell and typing in it. You put graphics in tables by using a background fill in individual cells, the same way you fill an object with an image. (For information about adding graphics or setting background colors inside table cells, see “Adding Images or Background Colors” on page 105.) You can also apply formulas to table cells that contain numbers or Boolean values (TRUE or FALSE).

You can apply changes to an entire table at once (by selecting it) or to individual cells. To format text or graphics inside table cells or groups of cells, you select only the cells you want to work with.

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Use the steps described here to select cells and to move from cell to cell. You can also use the selection buttons in the Table Inspector. To read about the Table Inspector, see “Formatting Tables” on page 98. To learn about selecting cells when using formulas, see “Using Formulas” on page 110.

To select the entire table, do one of the following:

Â Click the table. Â If a table cell is already selected, press Command-Return to select the entire table.

Selection handles appear on the edges of the table. Drag the handles to resize the table.

Selecting Table Cells

When a single cell is selected, you can move between cells by pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard. If you type text after doing so, you replace any text that is already in the cell. You can also use the Tab key to navigate through cells.

To select a single table cell, do one of the following:

Â If the table or a cell in it is selected, click once in the cell. Â If the table or a cell in it isn’t selected, double-click in the cell.

The border of the selected cell is highlighted in yellow. You can enter text in the cell by typing. Any text in the cell is replaced.

Â To select the cell itself, Command-click the cell or press Command-Return.

To navigate using the Tab key, do one of the following:

Â Press Tab to move to the right and downward. Â Press Shift-Tab to move the selection to the left or upward.

If you press the Tab key when the bottom-right cell of the table is selected, a new row is added to the table.

To select a contiguous (rectangular) group of table cells:

m Select the table, double-click a single cell, and hold down the Shift key as you select

adjacent cells.

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To select a discontinuous group of table cells:

m Hold down the Command key as you select cells. Use Command-click to deselect a

cell in the group.

To select an entire row or column:

1 Click the Inspector button in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then

click the Table Inspector button.

2 Select a cell in the row or column you want to select.

3 Click Row or Column (at the bottom of the Table pane).

Selecting Table Cell Borders

Follow these steps to select table cell borders.

To select multiple borders:

1 Select the table cells whose borders you want to change.

2 Click the Inspector button in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then

click the Table Inspector button.

3 Click one of the borders buttons in the Table pane to select all borders, or only the

inside, outside, horizontal, or vertical borders of the selected cells.

To select an individual border:

Â If the table is selected, click the border. Â If the table is not selected, double-click the border.

To select one segment of a cell border:

1 Select the table.

2 Option-click to select a single border segment.

3 To select additional border segments, hold down the Shift key as you Option-click the

border segments.

Note: If the table isn’t selected, Option–double-click to select a single border segment.

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Entering and Editing Content in Table Cells

You enter text by typing in a cell. You can then edit the text by selecting it and making any changes you want.

To type content in a table cell:

m If the cell is empty, select it and begin typing.

To replace specific text already in the cell:

m Select the cell, and then double-click what you want to change. Begin typing.

To replace everything in the cell:

m Select the cell and begin typing. You can also press Return or Enter, which selects

everything in the cell, and then start typing.

To place the insertion point within text content:

m Select the cell and then where you want to place the insertion point. Begin typing.

To switch the contents of two cells:

m Select a single cell and drag it to another cell. A blue border appears when you begin

to drag the cell, and the cell contents are switched.

To copy the contents of one cell into another:

m Select the cell and begin to drag it. A blue border appears when you begin to drag

the cell. Hold down the Option key as you drag it to another cell.

To delete the contents and background fill of table cells:

m Select the cells and press the Delete key.

To edit a cell that uses a formula or contains a formatted number:

m Select the cell, and then click in the cell or press Return or Enter to open the Formula

Editor.

See “Formatting Numbers” on page 106 and “Using Formulas” on page 110 for additional instructions.

Formatting Tables

You can design tables in a variety of creative ways simply by changing the thickness and color of cell borders, selectively removing cell borders, or merging and splitting cells to create useful asymmetries within the table.

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Using Table Formatting Controls

You can do basic table formatting—including merging and splitting cells, adding and deleting rows and columns, and adding or removing the header row and column— using a table formatting menu or the Table Inspector.

To open table formatting menus, do one of the following:

Â Select a table or cell(s), and then open the Table Inspector and use the Edit Rows &

Columns pop-up menu in the Table pane.

Â Select a table or cell(s), and then choose Format > Table. Â Select a table or cell(s), and then hold down the Control key as you click the table

again to open the table’s shortcut menu.

Adding and Deleting Rows and Columns

You can use the Edit Rows & Columns pop-up menu in the Table Inspector to add, delete, or otherwise change the arrangement of columns and rows. You can also add rows and columns to only specific cells (see “Merging, Splitting, and Resizing Table Cells” on page 100).

To add a new row to a table:

1 Select a table cell or row.

2 Click the Edit Rows & Columns pop-up menu in the Table pane of the Table Inspector,

and then choose Add Row Above or Add Row Below.

You can also Control-click the table to show the table formatting menu, and then choose Add Row Above or Add Row Below.

To add a single row to the end of the table:

m Select the last cell in the table and press Tab.

To add a new column to a table:

1 Select a table cell or column.

2 Click the Edit Rows & Columns pop-up menu in the Table pane of the Table inspector,

and then choose Add Column Before or Add Column After.

To change the number of rows or columns in a table:

1 Select the table.

2 Open the Table Inspector, and then click Table to open the Table pane.

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Â To add or remove rows, type the total number of rows you want in the table in the

Rows field and press Return. Rows are added to or removed from the bottom of the table.

Â To add or remove columns, type the number of columns you want in the Columns

field and press Return. Columns are added to or removed from the right side of the table.

To delete table rows or columns:

1 Select the row or column or a cell in it.

2 Click the Edit Rows & Columns pop-up menu in the Table pane of the Table Inspector,

and then choose Delete Row or Delete Column. Alternatively, you can choose Format > Table or hold down the Control key as you click to open a table formatting menu (choose Delete).

Note: If you select cells and press the Delete key, only the cell contents are deleted.

Adding Table Header Rows and Columns

Header rows and columns contain special formatting to set them off from the rest of the table text (header text might be boldface and bigger, for example). Header rows and columns look different from the rest of the table cells, but you can change their style. You cannot split a header row into multiple rows, or header columns into multiple columns.

To add a header row or column:

1 Select the table.

2 Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the

Table Inspector button. In the Table pane, select Header Row and/or Header Column.

You can also choose Add Header Row or Add Header Column from the table formatting menu, choose Format > Table, or Control-click a table to open a formatting menu.

Merging, Splitting, and Resizing Table Cells

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Apple Keynote - 3 User’s Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Welcome to Keynote

Keynote Features at a Glance

Professional-Quality Designs

Animated Text and Slide Transitions

Powerful Animation Tools

Easy-to-Use Media Tools

Free-Form Curves, Shapes, and Masks

Realistic 3D Charts

Tables with Calculation and Sorting

Easy-to-Use Inspectors

Tools for Advanced Presenters

What’s New in Keynote 3

How to Use Menus

Resources for Learning More

Tour

Keynote 3 User’s Guide

Onscreen Help

Web Resources

Technical Support

Overview of Keynote

The Keynote Window

The Slide Canvas

Different Views

Navigator View

Outline View

The Notes Field

Comments

Keynote Tools

The Toolbar

Keynote Inspectors

Media Browser

The Colors Window

The Font Panel

Shortcuts

2 Creating a Presentation

Importing a PowerPoint or AppleWorks Presentation

Starting a New Project

Changing the Theme

Setting a Theme to Use for New Documents

Kinds of Slideshows

Using Master Slides

Adding Text

Adding Graphics

Using Alignment Guides and Rulers

Using Multiple Themes

Moving Around in Your Presentation

Editing Text and Text Properties

Adding Text Boxes

Formatting Bulleted Text and Numbered Lists

Working With Graphics

Adding Shapes

Adding a Shape

Adding a Custom Shape

Editing Predrawn and Custom Shapes

Editing Specific Predrawn Shapes

Adding Text to Shapes

Changing Line and Fill Colors

Adding Pictures From iPhoto

Adding Other External Graphics

Using PDF Files as Graphics

Resizing, Moving, and Layering Objects

Masking (Cropping) Images

Grouping and Locking Objects

Working With Photo Cutouts (Alpha-Channel Graphics)

Including Sound and Other Media

Using the Media Browser

Adding Narration and Other Audio

Adding a Movie

Adjusting Media Playback Settings

Adding Webpages and Hyperlinks

Modifying Layouts

Changing the Slide Background

Retaining or Undoing Your Style Changes

4 Changing Object Properties

Using Color and Image Fills