Keynote Intro Course
Create beautiful, professional presentations with Apple Keynote on this one-day Mac course.
Covering slide design, master slides, animations, interactive elements and exporting.
Create beautiful, professional presentations with Apple Keynote on this one-day Mac course. Covering slide design, master slides, animations, interactive elements and exporting.
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Expert Trainers Experienced industry expert
- Class Size 1–8 in person or 1–6 online
- Support 28 days free helpdesk
- Cancellation 7 day cancellation
- Certificate Certificate of attendance
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Keynote Intro Course
Create beautiful, professional presentations with Apple Keynote on this practical one-day introduction course for Mac users of all experience levels.
You will learn how to design slides from scratch using built-in themes and master slides, work with text, images, shapes and tables, import and format media files, add slide animations and transitions, create interactive presentations with hyperlinks and navigation controls, use presenter view for confident and smooth delivery, and export your finished presentation for sharing across different platforms and devices.
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Course Outline
Introduction
Considerations when designing a slide deck
Understanding the different supported file formats and appropriate image resolutions
The Keynote interface
Customising the Toolbar to include useful tools
Using the Format, Animate and Document Inspector Panels
Checking slide aspect ratios and sizes
Using the Rulers and the Object List Panel to create slide layouts
Creating a simple presentation
Working with Keynote Themes
Adding and formatting text content
Inserting and resizing pictures
Adding, deleting, duplicating and moving slides
Viewing your presentation
Creating on-brand slide decks
Working with Master Slides for consistent slide content
Using brand colours on backgrounds, shapes and text
Embedding brand fonts into Paragraph Styles
Creating your own Keynote theme
Precisely controlling content appearance
Drawing, editing and grouping objects
Adjusting images, creating cut-outs and masking images
Adding special effects to objects and save the formatting to reuse
Adding animation and interactivity to slides
Creating slide transitions
Formatting and animating lists
Creating and animating tables
Creating and animating charts
Setting animation triggers and control the animation order
Adding sound and video
Setting Keynote preferences to allow multimedia files to play on iPad and iPhone
Adding sound and video files
Setting different playback options
Sharing and presenting your Keynote slides
Power tips when presenting with Keynote
Sharing your presentation with colleagues using iCloud
Exporting to PowerPoint, QuickTime, HTML or directly to YouTube
Assisted practice and development
One-to-one time with your trainer
Consolidate and practice new-found skills relevant to your Keynote presentation requirements
Questions and answers
This course is available as a private course. This allows you to choose the dates for your training. And, if you wish, we can tailor the content for you or your team. Please contact us for more details.
Who is this course for?
For Mac users who need to create professional presentations — including business professionals, educators, marketers and students. No prior Keynote experience required.
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You provide very good support beforehand and the lecturer was very good.
The course was engaging, which is hard to do sometimes when they're virtual (and about presentations!). I definitely learnt new features in…
Really open, warm, engaging and welcoming, great pace, very clear explanations.
Sebastian was great! Really helpful, adaptable and clear - learnt loads :)
Prep beforehand was excellent, really knowledgable, friendly trainer and we slowly but surely covered a whole host of keynote features. Fee…
Very adaptable to our specific needs and queries. We also had everything we needed before the course
You made it fun and easy for a Boomer like me to learn all the bits of Keynote that have had me chewing the scenery for two years. This cou…
I learnt loads of new tips and tricks. All the prior keynote questions I had, Tom had a really succinct answer to. I just feel all round mo…
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