Getting started with Keynote E-Book

Rémy Lentzner

• Herausgeber: Remylent
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 60

Beschreibung

Welcome to Keynote, the presentation manager for the Mac. This book is intended to anywone who wants to manipulate slides to express ideas better, both orally and in writing. You will learn how to insert and manipulate texts, images, shapes, videos and many other objects. You'll save time by using layouts that apply any changes to all slides. Keynote enables you to present information with customized effects, such as transitions and animations. You will discover the main communication techniques that are the basis of a successful presentation.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Rémy Lentzner has been an IT trainer since 1985. Specialized in mastering office automation tools, he supports companies in the professional training of their employees. Self-taught, he has several computer books to his credit.

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REMY LENTZNER

Getting started with Keynote

French original title : Bien débuter avec Keynote

EDITIONS REMYLENT, Paris, 1ère édition, 2022

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ISBN EPUB : 9782490275724

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This book is dedicated to Anna and Hélène

I could not have written it without their support, advice, encouragements and proofreading.

Graphic illustration : Anna LENTZNER

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Table of contents

Chapter 1 Fundamentals

1.1 Getting started

1.2 The View option

1.2.1 The Light Table view

1.2.2 The Navigator view

1.2.3 The Outline View

1.2.4 The rulers

1.2.5 The guides

1.3 The preferences

1.3.1 The General option

1.3.2 The Sideshow option

1.3.3 The Rulers option

1.3.4 The Remotes option

1.3.5 The Auto-correction option

1.4 The menu icons

Chapter 2 Layout and printing

2.1 Slides and Layout

2.1.1 Accessing to slide Layouts

2.1.2 Changing the background color of a single slide

2.1.3 Changing the background color of multiple slides

2.1.4 Inserting a logo

2.1.5 Modifying the bullets

2.1.6 Numbering a slide

2.1.7 Header or Footer

2.1.8 Applying a layout to a slide

2.2 Printing slides

2.3 Comments

2.3.1 Adding a comment

2.3.2 Editing a comment

2.3.3 Changing the author's name in the comment

2.3.4 Printing comments

Chapter 3 Objects

3.1 The Text Box

3.1.1 Inserting text

3.1.2 Aligning text boxes

3.1.3 Manipulating the text border

3.1.4 Formatting Text

3.1.5 Placing text in columns

3.2 Shapes

3.2.1 Front and back

3.2.2 Rotating and mirroring

3.3 Images

3.3.1 Choosing an image

3.3.2 Using the Image Gallery

3.4 Tables

3.4.1 Managing rows and columns

3.4.2 Inserting a formula

3.4.3 Copying a formula

3.5 Charts

3.5.1 Inserting a chart

3.5.2 Interactive charts

3.6 Inserting an audio file

3.7 Inserting an existing video file

3.8 Inserting a web video

3.9 Adding a link

3.10 Taking a picture from an iPhone

3.11 The slideshow settings

3.12 Recording your voice

3.13 Rehearsing the slideshow

Chapter 4 Transitions and animations

4.1 Transitions between slides

4.2 Adding an effect

4.2.1 Workshop 1: Build In effects

4.2.2 Workshop 2: Build In and Build Out

4.2.3 Workshop 3: A motion effect

Chapter 5 Better communication

5.1 The message

5.1.1 Main principles

5.1.2 Organization of the slides

5.1.3 Colors

5.1.4 Ideas and bullet points

5.1.5 A very bad slide

5.1.6 A better presentation

5.2 Beware of transitions and animations

5.3 Problems to anticipate

5.4 How to organize a presentation

5.4.1 The message and the massage

5.4.2 Relaxed communication

Chapter 6 Questions and Answers

1. How to write text on a slide

2. How to change the text font

3. How to add a hyperlink

4. How to place a shape in a slide

5. How to align several text boxes or shapes to the left

6. How to display all possible icons in the horizontal menu bar

7. How to place one shape behind another

8. How to frame a text placeholder

9. How to turn a text into capital letters

10. How to access the Layout manager

11. How to exit the layout manager

12. How to set a background colour for all slides

13. How to choose a specific layout for a slide

14. How to set a font and size for the title of each slide

15. How to make the same transition for all slides in a presentation

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Keynote, the application that helps you to present slides with the Mac.

This book is intended to people who want to express their ideas better, either orally or in writing. Keynote enables you to show information with customized effects.

At the time of writing this book, the operating system is MacOs Big Sur and the version of Keynote is 11.2.

The book is divided into 6 chapters.

Chapter 1: You will discover the visual work environment and the different menus that will help you to manage slides daily.

Chapter 2: You will learn how to format the slides (header, footer, numbering, etc) while manipulating the layouts. This feature enables you to define settings that will immediately apply to all the slides in the presentation.

Chapter 3: You will study the many objects that can be inserted into a slide such as texts, images, shapes, videos, tables and graphics.

Chapter 4: This chapter deals with transitions between slides and the many visual effects. You will also manipulate the customized animations that can be placed between objects in the same slide.

Chapter 5: In this chapter, communication techniques are presented to help you to organize your various messages better.

Chapter 6: This chapter provides a series of questions and answers about slides manipulation.

I hope that this book will interest you and help you to progress in the slides management.

Do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected] if you have any comments or questions about this book.

Enjoy your reading.

The author

Chapter 1 Fundamentals

The Keynote application is part of the group of three applications, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, that form a small suite integrated into the Mac operating system: Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for slide presentations.

1.1 Getting started

Figure 1.1 shows the desk icon that enables you to carry on the application.

Figure 1.1: The Keynote application

Click on the Keynote icon.Choose the Basic White theme.Click on the Create button.

Several themes are proposed but can be customized afterwards. They are containers of objects (text zones, images, etc.). Figure 1.2 shows the first slide based on the theme used after creating the new presentation. The screen displays a wide (16:9) horizontal format.

Figure 1.2 : The working environment

The left panel stores the different slides, one under another. The right panel deals with objects properties. For instance, you can insert a title or a background color.

The first menu concerns the Keynote application. The second menu concerns the actions that you can perform in each window.

1.2 The View option

The View icon enables you to choose different display modes. For example, you can display, or not, the left panel, see all the slides with a Light Table form or display the structure of the presentation, thanks to the Outline.

1.2.1 The Light Table view

Figure 1.3 shows a Light Table slides view. Slides are displayed horizontally.

View / Light Table

Figure 1.3 : The Light Table view

A context menu can help you to manage the slides. Click on the right button, then choose an option (figure 1.4).

Figure 1.4 : The context menu

The list below details the different options:

New Slide. Creates a new slide.Skip Slide. Hides the slide.Cut / Copy / Paste