Add text placeholders to slide masters in Keynote '08
Nov 14, '07 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: eykanal
You may have noticed that there's no intuitive way to add your own text placeholder to a master slide in Keynote '08. In other words, if you want to make a set of slides that has more than just a title and body you can either (1) add a text box on every page or (2) try to add a text placeholder to Keynote. The second option isn't so intuitive, but here's how to do it:
- Select View » Show Master Slides.
- Select the master slide you want to edit. Make a text box in a master slide and keep it selected.
- In the Inspector, go to the Slide Inspector (second from left), and select the Appearance tab.
- Check the checkbox next to Define as Text Placeholder, and create a tag.
For me, I found that once I did this, I could delete the text inside the text box, and it wouldn't automatically be deleted. I assume that assigning it a tag has something to do with that. I don't know how to assign some text to appear when editing the slide but not when presenting (e.g., some click here to edit text). That seems to be a special functionality reserved for the Apple-defined boxes.
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