Keynote

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 predesigned themes arranged in rows by category. A See All button appears above and to the right of each category row.

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 customize 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.

This guide helps you get started using Keynote 12.1 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).

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Keynote User Guide for iPad

Intro to Keynote on iPad