Keynote

There are two different ways to organize and work within your Keynote slideshow: navigator view and outline view. Navigator view displays a thumbnail of each slide along the left side of the Keynote window. This view gives you a visual overview of the contents of your slides, although you may not be able to read all of the text in the thumbnails. If your presentation is highly graphical, this may be a useful view to work in.

Outline view allows you to see a text outline of your slideshow. The text appears legibly along the left side of the Keynote window.

In outline view, you cannot see the graphics in your slides.

If your presentation is text-heavy, this may be the best view to work in.

4. Using the Slide Master

Each Keynote theme comes with a set of master slides that let you place titles, images, and text in arrangements that fit with that slideshow theme. The different master slide layouts are designed to meet various needs for thoughtfully placing titles, bulleted text, and graphics. When you create a new slide, it takes on the master of the slide that was selected when you created it. You can change the master slide on which a slide is based. When you click on the Master icon in the Menu Bar, you can select the type of slide you want

 

5. Creating a New Slide

To add a new slide to a slideshow, choose + New from the Menu Bar, or from the Slide menu select, New Slide, or press Return when a slide is selected in the slide organizer.

6. Add Graphics to a Slide

Choose Edit > Place > Choose. Navigate to a previously saved picture. Or, choose a picture you want to add to a slide. From the Edit menu, choose Copy. Or, click on the graphic you want, click on the Control key, and choose Copy. Then select Paste.

7. Drawing Simple Objects

You can add basic shapes to your presentations, including lines, squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, and arrows. To draw a shape, choose Edit > Place [Shape] and choose the shape you want. A shape appears on the slide canvas. You can also click the Shapes button in the toolbar and select the shape you want. Drag the selection handles to resize the shape.

 

8. Placing an Image Behind a Photo Cutout

Some Keynote themes include photo cutouts. You can place your own image so that it appears within the cutout frame.

Drag your own image from the Finder to the slide canvas and place it carefully so that it covers the cutout window.

Choose Arrange > Send to Back (or click Back in the toolbar) to place the new image at the bottom level of the slide canvas, behind the cutout frame.

Click the image behind the frame to select it and drag to adjust its exact position in the frame.

9. Adding Paragraph Text

You can place text anywhere you want on a slide by adding a free text box. To create a free text box choose Edit .> Place > Text (or click Text in the toolbar).

Click in the slide canvas and begin typing. A text box appears wherever you click in the slide canvas. You can move and resize the text.

To change fonts, select the text you want to format. Choose Format > Font > Show Fonts (or click Fonts on the toolbar). Select a font size and size in the Fonts window.

10. Adding a Title to a Slide

To create a slide with a title text, apply a master slide that includes a title text box.

If none of the master slide layouts place the title text box where you want it, select the one that is closest to what you want and then resize and reposition the txt box using the selection handles.

11. Using the Inspectors

The Inspector window gives you easy access to formatting tools while working in the slide canvas, including controls for formatting text, tables, charts, slide transitions, object builds, size and placement of objects on the canvas, media playback options, and more.

12. Adding Transitions Between Slides

To add a transition from one slide to the next, select the slide that is exiting the screen.

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

In the inspector window, click Slide to open the Slide Inspector.

13. Reordering Slides in Your Slideshow

You can change the order of slides in navigator view or outline view. To rearrange slides:

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

Select the slide or slides you want to move.

Drag the slides up or down to place them in the order you want.

To organize slides into groups as you work, you can indent them by dragging them to the right in navigator view.

14. Tables and Charts

You can create tables and charts by clicking the Table or Chart Inspector in the Menu Bar and selecting the options you want.

15. Saving your Slideshow

Click on Save As. Title your show and navigate to where you want the slide show saved.

16. Playing your Slideshow

Choose View > Play Slideshow (or click Play in the toolbar).

Click the mouse, press the Space bar, or use the Right or Down Arrow keys to advance the slideshow.

Use the Up or Left Arrow keys to go back to the previous slide.

Press the Escape key or press Q to quit the slideshow.

17. Printing your Slides

Choose File > Print Slides.

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

Select a slide layout. To print each slide on a separate page, select Slides.

To print each slide on a page with its accompanying notes, select Slides with Notes.

To print three slides on a page with space for handwritten notes, select Handouts.

Select the print formatting checkboxes that apply.