Take Control of Keynote

Work with Animation

In Keynote, the word animation means something slightly different from what you might expect. It doesn’t refer to cartoon characters walking and talking, and it doesn’t necessarily even imply motion as such. Rather, animation refers to any type of visual change that occurs during your presentation, such as bullet points or graphics appearing or disappearing, objects changing in size or style, and visual effects that accompany the transition from one slide to the next.

You can make a complete Keynote presentation without any animation whatsoever. It’ll be a standard slideshow—when you press a key or click your mouse, whatever’s on the first slide will disappear and be replaced with whatever’s on the second slide; lather, rinse, ...