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As your iPhoto library continues to grow and evolve, you're going to want to use something called keywords to help you find things quickly. Now, I already have some keywords showing, but I'm going to hide them for now and show you how to start from scratch to create not only key words for your images, but also how to create a new category for keywords. And they're located, by the way, down here when you do a search. If I click by this magnifying glass and hold my mouse down, I can select keyword and I can see these different categories. For example, vacation. Everything that I've given the word vacation to appears in the list. Click on the X to clear out your search and then you can start from the beginning. So let's talk about how to actually give things names. I'll go to the view menu and choose keywords and then the images separate a little bit and give you the ability to move your mouse under them and you'll see that we can add a keyword. So I can click here and type building or buildings and I can also copy this. So I'm going to command C and then go over here, command V to paste and I can change this one to buildings as well, so I'll make that building and that one and that one and when I come on down to the bottom of my search field and hit keyword, look at that; buildings is automatically added because iPhoto is smart enough to realize we are working on a new category and it tells me when I hover my mouse that I have five photos in this particular keyword section. So I click buildings and there it is. I click again to go back to my list, click harbor, click again to get rid of it, vacation and that's how I can see my keywords. Now, there's more to keywords than that. Let's go to the window menu this time and choose show keywords. A floating dialog box appears and with it I can see this list of keywords and a quick group. Now, this is a very interesting thing here. I'm going to take this out for now and show you what it says when you take this out. If you drag any of your keywords here, it's going to put them in a quick pick list and automatically assign a keyboard shortcut to them, which means that I wouldn't have to copy buildings and then paste buildings. I would be able to type B for example, under a new image and the word buildings would appear in a list. So if I had bees, buildings and bears, those would all appear in the quick pick list and I can select which one I wanted and that's what that means pretty much. The more words you have with the word B on it, the more will appear in the quick pick list. And that sounds a little crazy. That's like saying Sally picks seashells by the seashore. That's, that's how that little tongue twister went down. So anyway, I can also edit keywords by clicking here and I can add my own keywords manually, but as you saw, iPhoto was pretty intelligent and it adds them for you when you create a new category, simply by adding a keyword under your images. But I can click here and add something new if I wanted to. And I can also delete it. So I can go to coffee and hit the delete key and it's gone. I can also rename them and I can assign my own shortcuts. So I could type M for example. So every time I type the word M, the word movie will appear in the quick pick list. Once you're happy, hit OK and then you can drag a category up here. So I'm going to grab buildings and it's going to put the buildings under the B list and let's go ahead and give it a shot. I'm going to leave this dialog box alone, I'll click under this image and type B on the keyboard. And see that? Bio, birthdays and buildings show up in the quick pick list. So I'll click buildings and it's assigned. Let's see what happens over here. I'll type H for harbor and I get hunter and harbor in the quick pick list. So I can click on harbor or click on hunter to assign that to this picture. And that's all there really is to it. This is how you use keywords to sort your images out and find them when you really need to get to a bunch of images very quickly without having to search through thousands of images.