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Chapter 10. How Can I Create Presentations Quickly in Keynote?

Keynote is a fantastic tool for creating colorful and convincing presentations and delivering them to your audience in person or via the Internet. To create presentations swiftly and efficiently, you need to understand Keynote's components and what they do, set essential preferences that make Keynote look and behave the way you want, and customize the Keynote window so your essential tools are at hand. Then you can start creating your presentation — either from scratch, from an imported PowerPoint presentation, or as an outline from a document — and customizing the slides it contains.

Knowing What You Are Working With

Setting Keynote-Specific Preferences

Applying Themes and Master Slides

Setting Up the Keynote Window for Working Easily

Opening Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Customizing Slides

Importing an Outline from a Document

Knowing What You Are Working With

When you open Keynote, the application automatically displays the Theme Chooser (see figure 10.1) so that you can pick a theme for a new presentation. The Theme Chooser works in a similar way to the Template Chooser in Pages and Numbers but also lets you choose the size for the slides you're creating.

Figure 10.1. In the Theme Chooser, click the theme you want to use for ...