Take Control of Keynote

Lay Out a Slide

If you’re following along, so far, all you’ve done is add some blank slides with just enough text on each one to remind you of its purpose, and arrange them in some preliminary logical order. The next step is to add real content. As you do this, you’ll need to arrange the elements on each slide, which entails dealing with things like resizing, alignment, grouping, and front-to-back layering. This chapter explains those central tasks, which apply to every type of object that might appear on your slides.

Note: In later chapters, I’ll look at more of the details of particular object types—see, for example, Work with Media Objects, Work with Text, and Add Tables and Charts.

Besides the elements on your slides that the audience will ...