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Keynote: Professional presentations

K eynote was originally developed for Apple founder Steve Jobs to use when giving presentations at keynote events. It quickly became clear that Apple had a great product which Mac users would like too. In 2003 it was released to the public, and it came to iOS and iPadOS in 2010. Today it’s free for anyone who buys a new Mac or Apple mobile device.

1 Text formatting

Keynote shares its text formatting features with Pages, so familiarise yourself with the Pages tutorial earlier in this feature. When working with text, click on the Format icon to access the Format sidebar, and you can click the Style tab and add borders, fills, reflections and more. Using the Text tab, you can change the font, point size, justification and so on.

2 A new document

When you open a new document,you’re offered a range of different templates to choose from. As with Pages and Numbers, these are a great way to familiarise yourself with the app. If you want to start fresh, pick one of the basic templates, which simply give you a presentation with one slide, showing a little intro text which can be

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