Opening and Creating Presentations
Working with Slides
Opening a Keynote Presentation
Adding, Duplicating or Deleting Slides
When you open your Keynote app all of your saved presentations are
available in the My Presentations view. If you are in a presentation already, click on the “Presentations” button to get to the My Documents
view.
To add a slide, tap the “+” sign in the bottom left-hand corner. Tap on the desired layout for the added slide.
Creating a New Presentation
To begin a new presentation, click the “+” in the top left corner of the
My Documents view. You can choose from a template or choose a
blank presentation.
Editing Keynote
Placeholder Text
When using a template, there will be text already in the presentation
called placeholder text. This is text which is pre-formatted to match the
chosen template. To edit the text, simply double-tap on the placeholder text. The keyboard will automatically pop up. The text will be
highlighted so that you can begin typing. When you finish typing, simply tap the keyboard hide button and the keyboard will disappear.
Placeholder Images
Templates may have images included for holding the place of a picture. It is easy to change the placeholders. Simply tap on the insert
picture icon
and browse for your desired image. It will replace the
placeholder image.
To duplicate a slide, tap a slide in the left-hand list of
slides to select it. Tap it again. (You can select more than
one slide, if needed.) Tap Copy. Select the slide you want
to precede the new slide. Tap it again and then tap Paste.
In order to delete a slide, you will need to tap it once in the
left-hand list of slides. Tap it again and then tap Delete.
Reordering Slides
Touch and hold the slide which you wish to move until it
appears to “lift off the screen”. Drag it up or down to the
desired new location.
Images, Text, Shapes Charts and Tables
Inserting, Selecting and Formatting
Keynote functions the same way as Pages with regard to inserting, selecting and formatting objects. See previous section.
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