Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Intermediate Apple Keynote Skills”.
This is the intermediate Apple Keynote skills tutorial. This is the second video in a series on how to use Apple Keynote. If you have not already watched my beginner’s guide to Apple Keynote, I highly recommend that you watch that, in addition to this video, so that you fully understand how to use it, and in this tutorial we will look at an assortment of intermediate skills that can really Enhance your presentation in the beginners guide, I showed you how to add transitions from one slide to the next, and these are just beautiful transitions. I love them. I just tapped escape to get out of the presentation, and I wanted you to see that with this transition that I added between slides, if I ever find that transition to be too fast, I can adjust it to make it so there’s a longer duration on that Transition: let’s try that okay, that’s way too slow. I think, but you can see the effect that that has of changing the duration of the transition. You can also adjust how and when the transition happens right now, it’s on click.
So as soon as the presenter tap spacebar or the right arrow key or hits return on the keyboard or clicks with a left click that transition happens, you can also make it transition automatically. So I could say after let’s say four point five seconds: the transition will happen so now, if I play the presentation, I don’t have to click at all. I don’t have to tap spacebar at all.
I just wait four point five seconds and the transition happens, and so, if you don’t want to have to have a presenter remote in your hand or if you don’t want to have to go up in tap spacebar, you just want the presentation to run automatically. You can do that change it from start transition on click change that to automatically in this case, though, I’m going to keep it at on click. So that’s a little bit more information about transitions from one slide to the next. Now, let’s look at something related to transitions, and that is animations so here on the animate panel, because I have nothing selected on this slide, it assumes that I want to change or work with the transition from slide to slide. But in this case I don’t – I would like my students to just see the words Elgato without seeing the picture of the cat and then, when I’m ready, I’ll animate the cat I’ll bring the cat in. So to do that again, I select the cat on the animate panel. There are three different sections to consider: there’s a build in animation, there’s a build out animation and then an action animation. The build in section deals with how do we bring the cat into this slide? Build out is how do we take the cat off the slide, and then action is for changing how it moves on a slide or how it’s emphasized on a slide. So let’s take a quick look at each so with this cat. I would like to build it in. I would like to add the cat to the slide in a certain way, and it is time so I click add an effect and similar to transitions. I get several ways that I can animate. I could try envel effect that doesn’t make a lot of sense for a cat.
I could try fade and move, there’s fade and move, and you can change the direction of the move, the duration, the distance. All of that I could try blur that’s a nice effect. I think fade and scale. There’S just so many options here that are interesting and fun so feel free to explore and similar to transitions. Animations again are a strength of Apple Keynote.
They really do set keynote apart from its competitors. I just don’t think you can do stuff like this effectively using Google slides, for example, there’s confetti and there’s pop, just all sorts of wonderful animation effects flame, that’s kind of dramatic I’m gon na go with Comet. Let’S try that one, so the cat comes in as if on a comet and similar to some of those other transitions, I can choose a direction right to left left to right.
I’M gon na keep it left to right, there’s also an order option right now. It’S set to position number one because there is only one animation on this slide. Alright, let’s test it out. I start my presentation slide.
1 slide, 2, there’s no cat and then you tap it the comet brings in the cat. I love that I’m gon na tap exit or escape on the keyboard to get out of the presentation. Now. What if I change my mind about Elgato, maybe I would like to animate that as well. I can easily do that again here on the animate panel. I can click a build, in effect, add an effect and it’s a good idea to limit the number of animations that you use.
If you have too many, it can be more of a distraction than anything else, so I’ll just use comet again, but this time now that I have two animations you’ll notice that I can switch the order. I could make Elgato in the first position and the picture of the cat in the second position. So let’s try that I click play. There’S nothing on the screen. Until I advance the presentation now it says el gato I advance again shows the cat. That’S pretty much exactly what I want.
You can customize this even more. If you want, you can click on build order and it pops up with a bunch of different selections here, for example the picture of the cat. If I click on that, I could change it. Instead of changing when clicked or when the presentation is advanced, I could do it with build one or after build one.
So let’s try those really quickly. If I preview that you’ll see they come in basically simultaneously or I could say after build one so build one comes and then without me advancing the presentation at all. The picture of the cat appears, and you can also do both of those with adding a delay. As well, so that it’s not exactly at the same time and not immediately after, but with a little bit of a delay, so this really helps with timing. The presentation experience for your audience and that’s especially important if you want to add music and sync, the images and the pictures with the music I’m gon na switch back to on click. So those are some intermediate keynote skills that deal with animation and also we talked a little bit about transitions. Another intermediate skill that I’d like you to know is how to add, shapes and how you can use those shapes in keynote. So here at the top of the screen, where I typically go to add images, I can also go to add shapes you can see. There’S arrows. These are very useful.
There are your basic shapes here and then, if you keep browsing down it switches to objects, animals, nature and so forth, so you can click those or you can click and drag and it browses through some basic shapes and also some less common shapes. I’M just gon na go here with this rectangle I’ll click and drag, and I want to put this over the top of the words Elgato. That’S not really what I want, though I would like it to be in the background. So to do that, all I have to do is right. Click and choose send to back.
There are other ways to do this. You can go to the format. Panel choose a range, send it backward. So that’s another way to do it, but I typically just right: click send to back and some people really like that effect.
It can be a nice one to have a shape in the background behind text to make it stand out a little better. Now, if you right click on a shape, there is an option that you can choose to make it editable. Now it’s already editable a little bit right. I can make it bigger. I can make it smaller. I can send it to the back, but by right-clicking and making it editable you’ll notice that the handles changed a little bit and if you click here on this little handle on the side in the center look what you can do you can adjust the sides. The end the beginning of this shape, you can also change the corners as well.
I’M gon na undo that if you double click on that little handle it changes the style from curved to more jagged. You can see that here so try that out. That’S an intermediate skill that should come in handy to be able to add a shape then right-click on it, make it editable and then adjust some of the points that you see in the shape. This one has lots of editable handles I’m gon na undo.
This new shape to get rid of it. The next intermediate skill that you should know is how to fix images like this one, a lot of times when you add an image to keynote it’s going to have a rectangle in the background or colors on it, that you don’t want and there’s a pretty easy And really powerful tool built into keynote that helps you solve this problem. All you have to do is click on your image. Make sure that you’re on the format panel, in the image section and just click instant alpha, then put your mouse on the image and pick the color that you want to make disappear so white and look how beautifully that worked? Now I can click done and the elephant now stands out and really pops just like these other animals do now.
Sometimes it’s not quite so simple notice what it says if it doesn’t work beautifully the first time try what it says here drag to make similar colors transparent. So I could drag to select some of these other colors. In this case, it doesn’t show it very well, but basically it will erase more of the colors. So try that if it doesn’t work simply by clicking on one color, I’m gon na reset it back and just get rid of the color white. The next intermediate keynote skill that you should know about is how to copy and paste a text style. So, for example, this title here I can go in and choose the text section here of the format panel and I can make it italicized, I’m going to change the font to something a little different. Maybe this one here and I could change other aspects as well of the text so now that I’ve done that. What, if I want to copy that to the other text on this slide, and maybe two other slides as well, there’s a keyboard shortcut you can use with the text selected just hold the option.
Key hold the command key and tap C command C. Usually does a copy and in this case, option command C copies, not the text but the style now I’ll, click on ll, a font day and I’ll hold option command and tap V, and it just copy pasted all of the text style aspects of this and pasted. It here on top of this and then of course I could switch to another slide and do the same.
Let’S move on to our next skill, and that is linking you can right click on just about anything text or images and add link, and this link that I’m adding to the zebra. In this case, it’s going to link to another slide in my presentation. So I want it to link to the first slide or I could make it go to the last slide or to a specific slide slide number three, but I think I’ll stick with first slide and then I’ll click go to slide. So, let’s test it out, I begin my presentation.
I click on the zebra and it takes me back to the first slide I’ll escape out of there. Now, in addition to right-clicking and adding links that go to a different slide, you can also have it go to a web page, so I could type in the address of the website. I’D like that to go to, and now when the present is played. If you click, it will open up a browser and go to the web page. The next intermediate skill is one that you’ll use when you’re actually presenting, let’s say you’re presenting on this topic, and at this point you want to go to the Internet.
To show some example or to practice this skill, and then you want to come back into your keynote. All you have to do is tap the H key on the keyboard and that hides keynote. It takes you to your desktop, or whatever is there in my case, it’s just the internet on google.com. So now I can take my students wherever I want to take them, and then I just hold command on the keyboard and tap tab, and it takes me back into keynote.
So that’s a nice intermediate tip to help you when presenting to a group. Next up. Let’S look at another intermediate tip and that is how to change up the toolbar.
The toolbar has some great tools and options here for us, but if you wish it had something else, look what you can do right: click on a blank part of the toolbar and choose customize toolbar. This brings up many many different options. For example, record, I would like to add a record option to the toolbar, so there it is what about copy style. I showed you a keyboard shortcut for copy style, but I could also just put some buttons on the toolbar for copy style and paste style. Now, if you change your mind, you can always drag them back and they disappear off the toolbar, I’m gon na leave record there. I click done, and I have now altered the toolbar in keynote, and this is just for me on this computer great, I’m ready to save this presentation and at this point my last intermediate keynote skill that I’d like to show. You is how to save your keynote.
As a PowerPoint presentation now, why would you ever want to do that? Let’S say you’re presenting at a conference and you would like other people to be able to access your presentation later, what if they don’t have keynote on their computers? What if they only have PowerPoint? There’S an option here in file export to you can export to PDF or to any of these other options, and one of the options is PowerPoint. So I’m going to export this as a PowerPoint presentation, not gon na password-protect it. But I could you can change this up if you want to, but typically you just leave it the way. It is click. Next you decide where to save it, I’m just gon na save it in the same folder I’ve been saving it. I click export and it’s taking my keynote and it’s making a copy of it and turning it into a PowerPoint presentation.
So here’s the folder I’ve been saving in here’s the keynote and you can see that it’s a keynote here at the right and here is a basically identical presentation. But it’s a PowerPoint presentation when I double click on it. It opens up in PowerPoint, and so here it is in PowerPoint, now you’ll notice, some definite differences when playing a presentation that was created in keynote but playing it in PowerPoint. It’S not quite the same, but at least people that don’t have keynote on their computers will be able to watch your presentation on their own computers. Thanks for watching this tutorial, I hope you found it to be helpful if you did. Please click the like button below and consider connecting with me on my social media accounts like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter, and definitely do subscribe to my youtube channel for more videos about technology for teachers and students and when you do subscribe, please click the bell. Next to the subscribe button that way, you’ll be notified whenever I post another video and watch for another video from me at least every Monday. If you’d, like some recommendations for great presenter, remotes, look in the description below. I have some links there and, if you’d like to support my youtube channel, consider becoming a supporter of mine through my patreon account and you’ll find a link to that in the description below .