Apple Keynote '09 - Manual (Page 49)

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Add free text boxes to create labels, captions, and more.
Select text and modify its appearance and alignment within
text boxes, shapes, and table cells. Change the look of bullets
or turn bulleted lists into numbered lists.
Keynote makes your points stand out with sharp, clear text on every slide. Every
theme features beautifully styled text, but it’s always easy to customize it. Using
the Text inspector, you can change the look of bullets, or turn bulleted points into
numbered steps.
Adding text to placeholder text boxes is as easy as typing into them. And you can place
text anywhere on a slide by adding a free text box at the touch of a button. And all text
can be restyled with your preferred colors, fonts, line-spacing, ligatures, and more.
Selecting Text
Before you format or perform other operations on text, you need to select the text—
or the text box containing the text—that you want to work with. When selecting
text directly, such as a single word, line, or paragraph, you can use several keyboard
shortcuts to make it easier.
Here are ways to select text:
To select one or more characters, click in front of the first character and drag across the
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characters you want to select.
To select a word, double-click the word.
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To select a paragraph, triple-click in the paragraph. m
To select all text in a document, choose Edit > Select All. m
To select blocks of text, click the start of a text block, and then click the end of another m
text block while holding down the Shift key.
To select from the insertion point to the beginning of the paragraph, press the Up
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Arrow key while holding down the Shift and Option keys.
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Working with Text