Keynote User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
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- Intro to Keynote
- Intro to images, charts and other objects
- Create your first presentation
- Open a presentation
- Save and name a presentation
- Find a presentation
- Print a presentation
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Basic touchscreen gestures
- Use Apple Pencil with Keynote
- Create a presentation using VoiceOver
- Copyright
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Intro to Keynote on iPad
You can use Keynote to create beautiful and engaging presentations with fun animations, interesting transitions and professional polish.
To create a Keynote presentation, you always start with a theme, then modify it however you want. Slides in a theme include placeholder images and text styled as headlines and body content.
![The theme chooser, showing a row of categories across the top that you can tap to filter the options. The More button is in the top-right corner, where you can set Standard or Wide format and set formatting for a specific language or region. Below are thumbnails of pre-designed themes arranged in rows by category. A See All button appears above and to the right of each category row.](https://help.apple.com/assets/61537F57CFE4A13B2238D15C/61537F5BCFE4A13B2238D165/en_GB/0ff475ea6c1c7e0a321c2b2b9155d014.png)
To build your presentation, you replace placeholder content with your own content, or delete placeholders you don’t need. You can also add other objects — like shapes, photos and charts — to any slide.
When you select an object (an image, shape, chart, table or cell), then tap , you see formatting controls for the type of object you selected.
You can quickly change the look of the selected text or object by applying a new style to it. Tap one of the alternative styles to change the object’s look, or use the style options to customise the object’s appearance however you like.
![The Style tab of the Format menu with object styles at the top and controls below them to change the border, shadow, reflection and opacity.](https://help.apple.com/assets/61537F57CFE4A13B2238D15C/61537F5BCFE4A13B2238D165/en_GB/8308b5d65208892c362706d4851e4979.png)
This guide helps you get started using Keynote 12.0 on your iPad. (To see which version of Keynote you have, go to Settings > Keynote.)
To explore the Keynote User Guide, tap one of the “See also” links below, tap Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field. You can also download the guide from Apple Books (where available).