How to Create a Keynote Presentation on Your Mac

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Apple Keynote helps the users create presentations on Macs. The best feature of Keynote is that it has a feel of the designing software which focuses on layout and convenience. Here’s how to create a Keynote presentation on your Mac.

Steps for Creating a New Keynote Project

• Tap on the Launchpad icon given on the Mac’s dock.

• Press on the Keynote icon, and it resembles a slant-topped high desk. After clicking on it, a menu gets opened on display.

• Press on the New Document option located at the end left-hand side of the pop-up menu.

• Now, the theme switcher window appears on the screen.

• Select the width and height of the Keynote project through the Standard or Wide option given at the upper side of the display.

• Press on the theme thumbnail option which you wish to add on a new Keynote project.

• Tap on the Choose option provided for opening the new Keynote presentation where you have added the chosen theme.

Steps to Open a Keynote Presentation on the Mac

• Click on the Cmd and O keys together so that the pop-menu start showing on the desktop.

• Press on the preferred drive by going to the Devices drop-down menu located at the left-hand side of the pop-up box.

• Tap on the folders and subfolders until you will find the Keynote project.

• In case you have saved the Keynote project in the iCloud, then press on the Keynote object below the iCloud title given in the textbox located at the left-hand side of the pop-up menu.

• Click twice on the preferred thumbnail theme of the Keynote project.

• Click twice on the filename to start loading it on the Mac.

Steps to Save Keynote Presentation

• Tap on the Cmd and S keys together.

• Type the filename for the new Keynote project.

• Select the folder where you wish to save the Keynote presentation by going to the context menu.

• Press on the Save button.

Steps to Add a Background Shape

• Press on the insertion point in the folder where you wish to.

• Tap on the Shape option located on the Keynote taskbar.

• After that, select the shape.

• Press on the middle of the shape.