Making the most of Keynote

Keynote is Apple's software for making presentations. Many of our members use it for church meetings.

Custom themes

To save a customized theme:

• In the View menu, choose "Show Master Slides."
• Select one of them to edit.
• Then go to the Inspector, and choose the second tab from the left, "Slide Inspector." It will be showing "Transition"; switch to "Appearance."
• At the bottom, you will see "Background."
• In the White theme, it is set to "Color fill." Select "Image Fill," then hit the "Choose" button to select the image you want.
• Now when you save the theme, that one Master Slide will be changed to the background image you chose. You would need to do the same for all of the master slides.

Email list for Keynote

There is a Yahoo groups list devoted to Keynote. The moderator is a Christian and lots of Christians and church users (and some from this list) are on that list. It is not a Christian list per se but it has some very knowledgeable participants and as far as I can tell all questions are welcome.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/applekeynote/

Of course feel free to ask questions on the Mac Ministry List too.

Credits

First shared on the Mac Ministry List in 2011. Timothy Archer suggested the above steps for custom themes. Brian Braunschweiger recommended the Yahoo group.

See also

• Compressing images
• Slide shows