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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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Keynote Intro training course

Keynote Intro Course

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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

1

Introduction

Considerations when designing a slide deck

Understanding the different supported file formats and appropriate image resolutions

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

Assisted practice and development

One-to-one time with your trainer

Consolidate and practice new-found skills relevant to your Keynote presentation requirements

10

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.

225 Reviews
9.7/10 Satisfaction
100% Recommend

You provide very good support beforehand and the lecturer was very good.

Ann – 28 August 2024

The course was engaging, which is hard to do sometimes when they're virtual (and about presentations!). I definitely learnt new features in…

Melissa – 15 May 2024

Really open, warm, engaging and welcoming, great pace, very clear explanations.

Alyssa – 15 May 2024

Sebastian was great! Really helpful, adaptable and clear - learnt loads :)

Alan – 1 November 2022

Prep beforehand was excellent, really knowledgable, friendly trainer and we slowly but surely covered a whole host of keynote features. Fee…

Rachel – 20 August 2021

Very adaptable to our specific needs and queries. We also had everything we needed before the course

Emma – 28 May 2021

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…

Steve – 14 May 2021

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…

Sara – 18 November 2020

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