Apple Keynote '09 - Manual (Page 44)

About Changing a Slide’s Theme, Master, or Layout
You can change a slide’s theme, master, or layout at any time.
 Theme: Choose a different theme when you want to change a slide’s overall look
and feel—for example, its background color, fonts, and “tone” (professional or fun).
 Master: Choose a different master slide when you want to use a different
predefined layout. For example, you could easily change a slide from a vertical
photo layout to a horizontal photo layout by selecting a new master with the layout
you want.
You can also change the layout on a slide’s master—or add new elements to a
master, such as a logo—when you want that change to appear on all the slides that
use that master.
 Layout: Customize a slide’s layout when you want to add, delete, or modify slide
elements such as text boxes and object placeholders without modifying its master
or selecting a different one.
For more details about slide themes and master slides, see “About Themes and Master
Slides” on page 13.
Changing a Slide’s Theme
If you’re creating slideshows with many “chapters” or subheadings, you can use
multiple themes in a slideshow to visually separate slides into chapters or topics. Or,
you may want to change the theme of your entire slideshow or only a few
individual slides.
It’s easy to change the theme of one or more slides at a time, and the slide will take on
all the attributes of its new theme.
However, if you’ve made formatting changes to a slide that you want to retain, or
if you want to change the theme for all of your slides, you can choose to retain the
custom formatting. But if you’ve made formatting changes to a slide that you want to
get rid of, you can reapply the theme’s default settings.
To change a slide’s theme:
Select the slide and click Themes in the toolbar, and then choose a new theme.
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To return a slide to its theme default settings:
Select the slide and choose Format > “Reapply Master to Slide.”
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To change the theme of multiple slides:
1 In the slide navigator, select the slide or slides whose theme you want to change.
If you want to change all the slides, you don’t need to select them all; you can skip
this step.
2 Click Themes in the toolbar and choose Theme Chooser.
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