Apple Keynote '09 - Manual (Page 67)

Chapter 4 Working with Text 67
Spacing before a paragraph does not appear if the paragraph is in a text box, shape, or
table cell.
To set spacing around text in boxes, shapes, and table cells, use the Inset Margin
control, described in “Adjusting Spacing Within Text Box Borders” on page 65.
Adjusting the Spacing Between Characters
You can increase or decrease the amount of space between characters.
First select the text or a text box containing text you want to change.
To adjust the amount of space between selected characters, do either of
the following:
Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Text button, and then click Text. Drag the
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Character slider or specify a percentage in the Character field to achieve the spacing
you want.
Choose Format > Font > Tracking and choose an option from the submenu to
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tighten or loosen the text spacing by increments. Repeat until you’ve achieved the
look you want.
Aligning Text with Tab Stops and Paragraph Indentation
When you press the Tab key (or Option-Tab if you're working in a table cell), the
insertion point (and any text to the right of it) moves to the next tab stop, and any
new text you type begins at that point. By default, tab stops occur every five spaces,
but you can set your own tab stops using the tab stop symbols in the horizontal ruler.
Use the ruler also to set text margins, indentation for the first line in a paragraph, and
bullet indentation as well.
To see the tab stop and indentation symbols in the horizontal ruler, make sure the
ruler is showing and you have some text selected on the slide. You can set up the ruler
to display the units you want in Ruler preferences.
Blue tab symbols appear on
the horizontal ruler when you
select tabbed text.
Decimal tab
Right tab
Center tab
Left tab
First-line indentation
Left indentation Right indentation
The symbols are very small blue shapes in the horizontal ruler. There are several types,
each indicating a different alignment:
Right-facing triangle: Aligns the left side of text with the tab stop.