Keynote
Keynote User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
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- Intro to Keynote
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create your first presentation
- Choose how to navigate your presentation
- Open a presentation
- Save and name a presentation
- Find a presentation
- Print a presentation
- Customize the toolbar
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Basic touchscreen gestures
- Use Apple Pencil with Keynote
- Create a presentation using VoiceOver
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- Send a presentation
- Intro to collaboration
- Invite others to collaborate
- Collaborate on a shared presentation
- Follow activity in a shared presentation
- Change a shared presentation’s settings
- Stop sharing a presentation
- Shared folders and collaboration
- Use Box to collaborate
- Create an animated GIF
- Post your presentation in a blog
- Copyright
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Change object transparency in Keynote on iPad
You can create interesting effects by making objects more or less opaque. When you put a low-opacity object on top of another object, for example, the bottom object shows through.
![Transparent balloon shapes overlapping. The bottom balloon shows through the transparent balloon on top.](https://help.apple.com/assets/62967C9CB2872C0B63049B04/62967C9EB2872C0B63049B1A/en_US/a79c12842c83fe10d6e4478bab591e74.png)
Tap to select an image, shape, text box, line, arrow, drawing, or video, or select multiple objects.
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For a drawing, drag the Opacity slider; for any other item, tap Style, then drag the Opacity slider.
You can also tap the percentage below Opacity and enter a new value.
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