Use text styles in Keynote on Apple Vision Pro
Paragraph styles and character styles are sets of attributes — like a font size and colour — that determine how text looks. Using text styles helps you keep text formatting consistent throughout your presentation. For example, when you apply the paragraph style Heading to text, that text automatically matches other headings that use that style.
Paragraph styles apply to all the text in a paragraph, while character styles apply only to a selected word or character. A paragraph style may contain multiple character styles within it.
Every Keynote theme includes predesigned text styles. When you replace placeholder text, your content uses that paragraph style and any character styles it contains. You can add your own text styles, modify existing styles and delete any you don’t want to keep. Any changes you make to styles affect only the presentation where you changed them.
Note: You can’t apply a paragraph style or character style to text in a table cell.
Apply a paragraph style
Select one or more paragraphs, then tap
If you can’t see text controls, tap Text.
You can only apply a paragraph style to text in a text box or shape.
Tap the style name below Paragraph Style, then tap a new paragraph style.
Apply a character style
Every Keynote theme includes character styles that consist of formatting attributes such as bold, an underline or superscript. You can apply character styles to text in text boxes and shapes, but not to text in table cells.
Select the words or characters you want to format, then tap
If you can’t see text controls, tap Text.
Tap
Tap the character style name (it may say None), then tap a character style.
Create or modify a paragraph style
To add a new style, you first modify the text of a paragraph in your presentation to look the way you want, then create the new style based on that text.
Select the text where you want to create a new style, or tap in text that uses the style you want to change.
Tap
An asterisk and an Update button appear next to the paragraph style name to indicate that the style has been modified.
Do one of the following:
Create a new paragraph style: Tap the style name (but not the Update button), tap
Apply the changes to the style and keep the same name: Tap Update next to the style name. Any text that uses this paragraph style is updated with the changes.
Revert changes to a paragraph style: Tap the style name (but not the Update button), then tap the style name in the Paragraph Style menu (but not the Update button). The Update button is removed and the style is reverted to its original format.
Create a character style
You can create your own character styles for text in text boxes and shapes, but not in table cells.
Select the text you want to format, then tap
Use the text controls to change the text appearance, then (if necessary), tap Text to return to the font controls.
Tap
Under Character Style, tap None*.
An asterisk appears next to a style name when the selected text has a formatting change.
Tap
The new style is selected in the menu and appears with a temporary name.
Type a name for the new style, then tap Done at the top of the controls.
Modify a character style
You can modify a character style so that all text that uses the character style is automatically updated to match, or create a new style based on an existing style.
Select the text that uses the style you want to change.
Note: If you want to modify a character style that isn’t being used yet in your presentation, first select some text and apply the style to it (see the task above). Then select that text and continue with the steps below.
Tap
The character style being used appears below Text Colour in the controls.
Use the text controls to change the text appearance.
An asterisk appears next to the character style name to show that the text has been modified from its original formatting.
Tap the right arrow next to the character style name, then do one of the following:
Apply the changes to the style and keep the same name: Tap Update next to the style name. Any text that uses this style is updated with the changes.
Create a new style with a new name: Tap
Revert changes to a character style: Swipe left on the style name (you see Clear Overrides on the right). The formatting changes for the selected text are removed and the formatting of the original character style is retained.
Why does the style have an asterisk or Update button next to it?
When you change the appearance of text (its colour or size, for example), an asterisk (*), or an asterisk and an Update button, appear next to the style name to indicate it has overrides.
To deal with an override, you can do one of the following:
Ignore it: Leave the override in place, and keep the edits you made to your text. Other text that uses the style isn’t affected and the asterisk and Update button remain.
Update the style to incorporate the overrides: Tap Update. The style is updated with your changes, all text in your presentation that uses the style is also updated, and the asterisk and Update button are removed.
Remove the override: Tap the style name (but not the Update button). In the style menu, tap the style name. Your text reverts to its original appearance and leaves the style unchanged.
If you select some text in a paragraph that has a paragraph style applied to it, and then change its appearance, you may see only an asterisk next to the character style name and not an Update button for the paragraph style.
Redefine a style
You can modify an existing text style, then redefine the style to use the new formatting.
Select the text you modified, then tap
Tap the style name that appears (it doesn’t have to be the style you want to redefine).
Swipe left on the style you want to modify, then tap Redefine.
The name of the style doesn’t change.
Copy a text style
You can copy just the style of selected text and apply that style to other text.
Do one of the following:
Select the text with the style you want to copy. The style of the first character in the text selection is what’s copied. Select carefully — if the first character in your selection is a white space, the text where you paste the style is replaced by white space.
Place the insertion point in the text with the style you want to copy. Everything that you would see if you were to begin typing at the insertion point is copied. That includes any paragraph style, character style and style overrides applied to that text.
Tap
Select other text where you want to apply the style, or place the insertion point in text, tap
If you place the insertion point in a paragraph or select full paragraphs, text boxes or shapes, existing paragraph or character styles are replaced with what you paste.
If you select one or more partial paragraphs (for example, one or more words in a paragraph), or a full paragraph and part of another, only character styles and not paragraph styles are applied to the selected text.
Delete a style
You can delete a text style that isn’t being used in your presentation. You might want to do this to simplify the menu.
Tap in any text, then tap
Tap
Alternatively, if a character style name appears below Text Colour, you can tap the character style name.
Tap
Tap
to the left of the style you want to delete, then tap the Delete button that appears on the right.If the style was applied to text in the presentation, select a replacement style for the text that uses it, then tap Done.