Take Control of Keynote

Create a Presentation

If you followed the steps in the preceding chapter to Plan Your Presentation, this is the point when you reopen Keynote and recreate the structure of your written, typed, or sketched outline in a series of slides. With or without a plan, in this chapter you’ll create the shell of your presentation—the slides themselves, arranged in a meaningful order—perhaps with just enough text to help you find your way around. You’ll learn about various tools to organize your slides, too.

You don’t have to do all these steps up front; you can build your presentation one slide at a time, if you prefer. But you’ll have to skip ahead to future chapters (such as the next one, Lay Out a Slide) to learn about arranging elements on a slide ...