Creating Keynote Slideshows: The Mini Missing Manual
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 2010
194 pages
978-1-4493-8950-5 (ISBN)
Description
Don't bore your audience with black bullet points on a white background. Your ideas deserve a presentation that's as smart and elegant as they are. Even if you're new to the Mac, this hands-on guide gets you up to speed on Keynote's features-like timesaving themes-fast. You'll learn how to customize layouts to your liking and add even more flash with sound and video.
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Creating a Keynote Slideshow
- Themes = Templates
- Your First Keynote Slideshow
- The Toolbar, Format Bar, and Inspectors
- Slide Size and Slide View
- Adding Your Text
- Changing the Slide Layout with Master Slides
- Adding an Image
- Making Changes to the Layout
- Adding and Inserting Slides
- Adding Slide Transitions
- Changing the Theme
- Using the Presenter Notes Pane
- Playing the Slideshow
- Browsing and Organizing Your Slides
- The Slide Navigator
- Navigator View
- Outline View
- Light Table View
- Saving Your Slideshow
- Automatic Backups
- Opening an Existing Slideshow
- Importing Files from Another Program
- Laying Out Your Slides
- Setting Up the Keynote Document
- Choosing a Presentation Style
- Password-Protecting Your Slideshow
- Working with Objects
- Selecting Objects
- Moving and Copying Objects
- Resizing, Rotating, and Flipping Objects
- Connecting Objects
- Styling Objects
- Copying and Reusing Object Styles
- Layering Objects
- Aligning Objects
- Grouping and Locking Objects
- Distributing and Aligning Objects
- Adding and Formatting Text Boxes
- Inserting Title and Body Text Boxes
- Inserting Free Text Boxes
- Editing Text in Keynote
- Formatting Text
- Inserting Photos and Other Graphics
- Replacing Media Placeholders
- Adding and Editing Pictures
- Managing File Sizes for Image-Heavy Slideshows
- Making Shapes
- Filling with Colors, Gradients, and Images
- Building Tables and Charts
- Adding Movies
- Playing Movies
- Managing Multimedia Files
- Making Noise: Sounds and Soundtracks
- Adding a Soundtrack
- Adding Sound to a Single Slide
- Working with Hyperlinks
- Linking to Slides
- Surfing the Web
- Linking to Other Slideshows
- Sending Email
- Note to Self: Add a Comment
- Changing Slide Backgrounds
- Adding Slide Numbers
- Animating Your Slides
- Adding Transitions
- Switching Slides with 2D and 3D Effects
- Adding Object Effects
- Wordplay with Text Effects
- Magic Move Transitions
- Old-School Transitions
- Adding Object Builds
- Creating Build Ins and Build Outs
- Controlling Movies and Sounds with Builds
- Using Smart Builds for Single-Slide Slideshows
- Ordering and Automating Builds
- Playing Builds Automatically or Simultaneously
- Mingling Builds of Text, Tables, Charts, and Images
- Adding Animations with Action Builds
- Moving Objects Along a Path
- Multiple Action Builds
- Copying Builds to Other Objects
- Colophon
