Take Control of Keynote

Work with Text

A Keynote slide shouldn’t contain much text, because it needs to be legible from quite a distance, at a much lower resolution than your Mac’s display, and possibly in unfavorable lighting conditions. Nevertheless, titles, bullets, quotes, callouts, and other chunks of text are important components of almost every presentation. Keynote offers a wide variety of tools to format text to your liking. I discuss them in this chapter, with special emphasis on lists (which have some interesting idiosyncrasies).

Note: All text in Keynote needs a container of some kind (either a text box or a shape). Many master slides include text boxes for elements like Title and Body, but you can add your own custom text boxes too. See Add a Text Box ...