How To Make Words Slide In with Keynote
Apple Inc. is the manufacturer of Mac computers. These computers come in a variety of sizes and specifications to meet your requirements. If you travel a lot and want to carry around your documents and applications, then you would ideally settle for Macbooks. However, if you are looking to harness the power of a Mac desktop computer, then you would go for Mac Pro.
In either case, these computers are highly efficient and help you to do many tasks with convenience. They are very secure and hardly face any reliability issues. Whether you want to edit photos, videos, browse the internet, send hundreds of emails or make great looking presentations, you can do all of these tasks with ease on a Mac computer.
One of the pre-installed software that come with a Mac is Keynote. It is a presentation software which helps you make and view slideshows on a computer. It is very easy to use and is used by many all over the world. You can even animate the text or graphical objects on the slides to make them appealing to the eyes.
We will now explain how you can put animation effects on text in Keynote.
Instructions
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First of all, you need to open the presentation in which you want to put animation effects into. If you do not have any previous presentation, open a blank Keynote file in which you can enter text effects.
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After you have opened the file, you will need to select the Text Box button which will be located in the Keynote toolbar. This will enable you to write the text on a blank presentation. If you have already written the text, skip this step.
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When you click the Text Box button, you will then have to type in the word(s) which you want to animate. The Text Box will automatically adjust itself to fit in the words which you are typing. Once you are done writing, you need to click anywhere outside the Text Box and the type mode will end.
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If you want to change the size of the text that you have entered, click on the selection handles on the edges of the Text Box and expand/contract it to have the text size of your choice. Once you do that, you can also place the Text Box on an area of your choice on the presentation by clicking and dragging the Box.
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After this, click on the Inspector button in the Keynote toolbar. Select Build Inspector button after that.
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Clicking on the Build In button will give you options to give animation effects to the Text Box. Select the one from the menu that you want. You can select the animation type, its duration, order and many other variables to perfect the animation you want.
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You can preview your animation by clicking the Play button. That’s it. You have successfully learnt how to animate words in Keynote.
