Apple Keynote '08 - Manual (Page 191)

Chapter 10 Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes 191
Creating a Master Slide from Scratch
If you can’t find a master slide that closely resembles the master you want, you can
create one from scratch.
To create a new master slide:
m In the master slide navigator, select a blank slide.
m If the theme you’re using doesn’t have a blank slide, select a master slide, choose Edit >
Select All, and then press Delete.
Customizing Master Slide Layouts
Define placeholders for text, media and objects; change a master slide’s background
elements; add alignment guides; and more.
Defining Text Placeholders
You can add placeholders for text, and define default attributes for text in them.
To define a text placeholder:
1 In the Master Slide navigator, select a slide (to open the Master Slide navigator, click
View in the toolbar and choose Show Master Slides).
2 Open the Master Slide Inspector, and then click Appearance.
3 To add a placeholder title text box, select Title.
4 To add a placeholder body text box, select Body.
To control whether text in the text box is bulleted, numbered, or plain by default, use
the Bullets pane of the Text Inspector.
5 To add a placeholder free text box, click Text Box in the toolbar. In the Master Slide
Inspector, select “Define as Text Placeholder” (or choose Format > Advanced > “Define
as Text Placeholder”).
You can also add a shape and define it as a text placeholder.
6 Resize and rearrange the text boxes as desired.
7 Select the placeholder text and format it as desired.
In a text box, you can define attributes for as many as five levels of text.
Defining Media Placeholders
You can create one or more placeholders on a master slide to hold images, audio files,
and movies. When you add one of these items to a slide based on that master, the file
automatically goes into the placeholder at the specified position and size.