basic keynote question (i'm helpless)
October 3, 2014 6:24 AM Subscribe
So I have to do a couple of presentations over the next few months (the most imminent one being on Tuesday) and because OpenOffice drives me batty, I just bought Keynote...
So say I want to have a slide with three pictures adjacent to each other. When the slide first appears, I want no pictures on it. Then I want to press spacebar (or whatever? I really never present, so when I press whatever people press) and have a first picture appear. Then spacebar and a second picture appear. Then spacebar and a third picture appears, so there are three pictures next to each other by the end. When people do this, are they really switching between separate slides or is there are a way within one slide to have several pictures appear in a controlled fashion?
thank you! I know this is a noob question, but I really am struggling.
So say I want to have a slide with three pictures adjacent to each other. When the slide first appears, I want no pictures on it. Then I want to press spacebar (or whatever? I really never present, so when I press whatever people press) and have a first picture appear. Then spacebar and a second picture appear. Then spacebar and a third picture appears, so there are three pictures next to each other by the end. When people do this, are they really switching between separate slides or is there are a way within one slide to have several pictures appear in a controlled fashion?
thank you! I know this is a noob question, but I really am struggling.
I use separate slides. You can use animations but sometimes they don't work/work differently between computers so I just do multiple slides.
posted by hydrobatidae at 6:36 AM on October 3, 2014
posted by hydrobatidae at 6:36 AM on October 3, 2014
Best answer: Yes, this is a single slide with three images appearing as you click to request each one. I just tried this in the latest Keynote, and here are the steps:
- Create a slide with all your images on it, in their final layout
- Switch to the animation controls by clicking the 'Animate' icon in the upper right of the toolbar - second from the right
- Click your first picture and the animation controls will change to show a 'Build In' tab highlighted. 'Build In' refers to the way your slide will build onto the screen, piece by piece.
- Click 'Add an Effect' and select the special effect you want the picture to appear with, or just select 'Appear' if you don't want a special effect.
- Repeat the last two steps (click the picture, 'Add an Effect') for each picture you want to have appear, in order
Now if you play the show, you will see each image appear when you click the mouse. You can click the image and change the 'Order' select box if you want to change the order they appear in, or use the Build Order button at the lower right to get an overview of all the pictures on your slide and how they will come in.
Hope this helps you. It is confusing but it makes a little more sense if you think of the images appearing one by one as a kind of simple 'animation', since most presentation apps treat it that way.
posted by pocams at 6:39 AM on October 3, 2014
- Create a slide with all your images on it, in their final layout
- Switch to the animation controls by clicking the 'Animate' icon in the upper right of the toolbar - second from the right
- Click your first picture and the animation controls will change to show a 'Build In' tab highlighted. 'Build In' refers to the way your slide will build onto the screen, piece by piece.
- Click 'Add an Effect' and select the special effect you want the picture to appear with, or just select 'Appear' if you don't want a special effect.
- Repeat the last two steps (click the picture, 'Add an Effect') for each picture you want to have appear, in order
Now if you play the show, you will see each image appear when you click the mouse. You can click the image and change the 'Order' select box if you want to change the order they appear in, or use the Build Order button at the lower right to get an overview of all the pictures on your slide and how they will come in.
Hope this helps you. It is confusing but it makes a little more sense if you think of the images appearing one by one as a kind of simple 'animation', since most presentation apps treat it that way.
posted by pocams at 6:39 AM on October 3, 2014
Best answer: I use one slide for this. I live and breathe Keynote. Basically what pocams says is how I do it. You have to view the slideshow to actually see it work in practice. It's tricky if you have, say, one image being on top of the other one because when you look at your deck, you don't see the underneath picture at all, the deck will show you what the "finished" slide looks like but not the "builds" When you export your slides to a PDF (if you do that) you can choose to show the builds (i.e. print a page for each step of the four step slide) or not (just show the final slide).
I made an example here. It has a slide with three images that appear as you click. One just appears, one slides in, and one dissolves. If you look at the "slide inspector" the little "i" in the toolbar and then the "build inspector" and then click "more options" you can see how it works. I'm using one version older of Keynote so it's possible there are slightly different directions but you can see how it works.
posted by jessamyn at 7:55 AM on October 3, 2014
I made an example here. It has a slide with three images that appear as you click. One just appears, one slides in, and one dissolves. If you look at the "slide inspector" the little "i" in the toolbar and then the "build inspector" and then click "more options" you can see how it works. I'm using one version older of Keynote so it's possible there are slightly different directions but you can see how it works.
posted by jessamyn at 7:55 AM on October 3, 2014
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Just one tip - I always start and end my presentations with a blank slide (usually black) so there's a clean start and finish.
Hope that helps!
posted by kdern at 6:31 AM on October 3, 2014