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Here let's build a basic presentation - you can follow along with the lesson files. I'm going to choose a clean slate here for the first slide, and open up the lesson folder. And we have some .rtf files (which are text files), and we are going to drag out Slide1.rtf to the canvas. It comes in unformatted and very bland. I'll position it to the center of my canvas, and I'll select the type and I'll bring out the fonts. Now, I could pick and choose a favorite here, or I can pick and choose the font that I'm presently using. How do you make a favorite? Well first allow me to resize it to a size that I like, then choose Favorites, then from the pull-down menu you can add, add to favorites. Now, if we go into favorites, you'll see that Helvetica is now stored in there. And I can use this on the fly. I'll just go ahead and position this up a little bit. I'm going to add a new slide. It's also blank as you can see. I'll open up the lesson folder again and drag out Slide2.rtf. Drag it out and drop it, and you can import graphics the same way. Choose the font palette again, and all I got to do is click my favorite and it resizes. I'm going to add a third slide that's blank. And now from here, I can drag out Slide3 text file, the .rtf, and drag that out. That's a rich text format, and I could also choose the font again and apply the favorite. Beautiful! Look at that. Now, we have Slide1, we could just position that. Let's open our color palette and work with some colors here. I'm going to select the headline - I going to drag a red off into it. I'm going to select an orange. I can drag the color to the bottom of my palette, and that's the red I'm going to use later. Now, I have to select the text, and of course choose a color - orange. We'll drag it to the bottom of the color well, and you can drag it and drop it on the text. Let's repeat the process. From the color well, drag that red to the title - it may color everything but that's ok. Then we have to select the text for taxes, gross, and income. And of course, drag orange to that text, and repeat the process for slide3. Choose slide3, drag red to the title, select the text, and drag and drop your orange from the color well. And now we could run the slide show from the first slide, click play and this is the official slide now. play and this is the official slide now.

Tutorial Information

Course: Keynote
Author: Mario Leone
SKU: 33421
ISBN: 193207225X
Release Date: 2003-05-15
Duration: 6 hrs / 103 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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