1. Tap the Keynote icon on the Home screen. If this is the first time you are using Keynote, the sample presentation should be front and center.
2. Tap the + button to create a new presentation.
3. Tap New Presentation.
4. Choose a theme. We use Gradient for the task.
5. Double-tap where it reads Double-Tap to Edit.
6. Type a title using the on-screen keyboard.
7. Tap the subtitle area and type a subtitle.
8. Tap the Close Keyboard button.
9. Tap the small button in the bottom-right corner of the picture to open a photo albums browser.
10. Choose a photo.
11. Tap the large + button at the bottom-left corner to bring up a list of slides.
12. Tap any of the slides templates to add a slide. You now have two slides in your presentation.

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STARTING NEW PRESENTATIONS

Keynote presentations are made up of slides. The slides in the current presentation are shown at the left of the screen. The selected slide takes up most of the screen. The slides are built from one of eight slide templates, which you can modify as needed.

Be aware that there is no way to switch themes or to access the design of another theme after you start a new presentation. If you’re used to working with Keynote on a Mac, you might be disappointed by this.

You can copy and paste entire slides between presentation documents, though. So if you want a document that mixes themes, you can achieve it by copying and pasting.

1. Start a new document or continue from the previous example. Tap + to add a new slide.
2. Choose the blank slide to the lower right.
3. Tap the Image button at the top to add an element.
4. Tap Media.
5. Select an album, and then select a photo from that album.
6. With the photo selected, grab one of the blue dots and shrink the image.
7. With the image selected, tap the i button and then tap Style.
8. Tap the bottom right of the six basic image styles or tap Style Options to customize the look of the photo even more.
   

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   Select All
   To select all objects, tap a space with no objects. After a short delay, tap there again and then you can choose Select All.

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9. Add two more images using steps 3 to 8.
10. To select multiple items, use two fingers. Tap the first image with one finger and hold it. Use a second figure to tap the other two images to add them to the selection. Then drag all three images into a better position.
11. Tap the Image button to add another element.
    

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    Tables and Charts Anyone?
    You can also add table and charts, even basic shapes, in the same way you would do it in Pages. There are a lot of similarities between using Pages and using Keynote.

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12. Tap Shapes.
13. Tap the first element, a T, which represents a plain text box.
14. Tap outside the menu to dismiss it.
15. Tap the text box to select it.
16. Drag it to a new position and expand it.
17. Double-tap in the text box to enter some text.
18. With the text selected, tap the i button.
19. Tap Text to change the font style in the same way you do in Pages.
20. Make the text bold by tapping B.
21. Tap outside the menu to dismis it.
22. Your text is now bold.

1. Select the first slide on the left.
2. Tap the Transitions button (two diamonds overlapping).
3. Tap the blue circle to pick a transition.
4. Scroll through the transitions and pick one. Try Cube. The slide animates to show you the transition. It then returns.
5. Tap Options.
6. Select any options associated with the transition. For example, a Cube transition can move in any of four directions. If you don’t want to change any options, tap elsewhere to dismiss the menu.
7. Tap Done in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Magic Move

Another type of transition is the Magic Move. This is where objects on one slide are the same as the objects on the next, but they are in different positions. The transition between the slides moves these objects from the first position to the second.

1. Select a slide with several objects on it, such as three images. Tap the Transitions button.
2. Tap the blue button to choose a transition.
3. Choose Magic Move.
   

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   Unique Effects with Magic Move
   The great thing about the Magic Move transition is that you can create some unique effects. For instance, in the example, I could bunch all the photos into a tiny space on the first slide and then spread them out in the second slide. The transition would make it seem like the photos are bursting out and falling into place.

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4. Tap Yes to duplicate the current slide so that you have two identical slides from which to create the Magic Move transition.
5. Slides 3 and 4 are identical, and slide 4 is the current slide. Move the objects around to reposition them or resize them. The stars indicate which elements are taking part in the magic move.
6. Tap the third frame.
7. Tap the play arrow to preview the transition from slide 3 to slide 4.
8. Tap Done in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Object Transitions

In addition to the entire screen transforming from one slide to the next, you can also define how you want individual elements on the slide to appear.

1. Start off with a slide that includes a title and a bullet list. Tap the Transitions button.
2. Tap the slide’s title text.
3. Tap the Build In button.
4. Tap Blast to see a preview of the animation. You can also explore the Options, Delivery, and Order parts of the menu, but for this task we’ll leave those settings alone.
5. Tap the bullet list.
6. Tap Build In.
7. Scroll down to Move In and tap it.
8. Tap Delivery.
   

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   Don’t Build the First Object
   A common mistake is to set every object to build, as we have in this example. Because the first object, the title, builds in, it means that nothing appears on the slide at first. You start off blank. Then the title appears and then the bullet items. Sometimes, though, you should start a slide with the title already on it.

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9. Tap By Bullet and then tap Done in the upper-right corner of the screen. The effect works by first showing you a blank screen, and then when you tap, the title appears with the Blast transition. Each of your next three taps makes a bullet appear.

1. Create a presentation that includes several slides.
2. Tap and hold the third slide. It grows slightly larger and begins to follow your finger so that you can drag it between slides 1 and 2.
   

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   Grouping Slides
   There are two options when you drag a slide and place it back in the list. The first is to place it flush left, where it inserts normally. If you move the slide slightly to the right, though, you are grouping the slide with the one above it. Groups are a great way to put slides that belong together as a single element. That way you can move them as one unit if you need to.

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3. Drag slide 4 so it inserts in a group owned by slide 2.
4. Tap the triangle on the left of slide 2 to close the group.
5. Tap slide 5 with your finger, and continue to hold.
6. Use your other hand to tap slides 6 and 7 and then release your finger. You can now move this group of three slides as one unit.
7. Tap once to select a slide. Then tap a second time after a short delay to bring up a menu.
8. Use Cut, Copy, and Paste as you would while editing text. You can duplicate slides this way.
9. Tap Delete to remove a slide.
10. Tap Skip to mark a slide as one to skip during the presentation. This comes in handy when you want to remove a slide from a presentation temporarily, perhaps while presenting to a specific audience.

1. With a presentation open in Keynote, tap the Play button.
2. The presentation fills the screen. Tap on the center or right side of the screen to advance to the next slide. You can also tap and drag from left to right.
3. To go back to the previous slide, drag right to left.
4. Tap on the left edge of the screen to bring up a list of slides.
5. Tap one of the items in the list to go directly to that slide.
6. Double-tap in the list of slides to dismiss the list.
7. Double-tap in the center of the screen to end the presentation and return to editing mode.

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ONLY VGA?

Although the only way to get Keynote’s presentation out to an external screen is to use the VGA adapter, you can convert VGA to fit other video connections. For instance, if you need to connect to a TV using a component or s-video, you should find some VGA adapters that work. See if you can find one that has been verified to work with an iPad before buying.