Keynote: Introduction

Business Skills Courses

This is a one day course for those new to Keynote - Apple?s extremely popular presentation program. This course is designed to teach those with little or no experience of Keynote to create engaging and compelling presentations containing text, graphics, tables, charts, video and audio. If you would like a private version of this course to create a presentation for a particular event, please give us a call or email.

Course Description

Introduction
• What is Apple Keynote?
• The interface
• Setting preferences

Creating a presentation
• Creating a basic presentation
• Using master slides
• Adding slides
• Deleting slides
• Importing files
• Customising a slide
• Using Keynote’s themes
• Creating your own theme

Using text in Keynote
• Using the Text Inspector
• Adding text and formatting text
• Creating lists
• Working with columns
• Using the spell checker

Working with graphics
• Importing graphics
• Drawing objects
• Inserting photos
• Using photo cut-outs
• Masking and adjusting images
• Grouping objects
• Working with colour

Working with tables
• Placing a table in a slide
• Formatting rows and columns
• Selecting, copying and moving cells
• Formatting the table borders

Working with charts
• Choosing different chart types
• Entering chart data
• Formatting charts

Creating slide transitions
• Creating transitions
• Creating object builds

Adding sound and video
• Adding sound and sound effects
• Importing from iTunes
• Importing Quicktime movies

Sharing your presentation
• Presenting with Keynote
• Adding notes to slides
• Exporting to different file formats
• Reviewer comments

Questions and answers