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198 Chapter 10 Designing Your Own Master Slides and Themes
Creating a Theme from Scratch
If you want to create an entirely new theme that is not based on any existing Keynote
theme, the easiest way is to create a new Keynote document and delete all master
slides from it except for one blank slide.
To delete a master slide, select it in the master slide navigator and choose Edit > Delete
or press the Delete key.
Here are tips for creating the new theme:
m Set up all text and background attributes before creating new master slides.
m On a sample slide, test your text layouts to be sure they work with text longer than a
line or two. Consider how many bullets you want to fit in a body text box when you set
its size and placement.
m Duplicate the original master slide to create various text layouts. New masters made
from copies automatically inherit the original’s text and background attributes. Then
you only have to adjust the text box layouts (for example, remove the title text box and
expand the body text box for a “body only” master slide).
m Create sample slides in the slide navigator based on each master you design and place
free text boxes, shapes, tables, and images on each one, if you want the default object
attributes to be different on different master slides. (If you want to set the same default
object attributes for all masters, you need to do this for only one master slide.)
m Create a series of sample slides in the slide navigator based on each of your master
slides. Design a chart on one slide, and then copy and paste it onto each of the slides.
Then convert each chart to a different chart type, and set its size and position. Do this
step before you define default chart styles using Format > Advanced.
Restoring Original Theme Attributes
If you modify master slides in a document and later want to return to the original
theme defaults, you can reapply the theme to your document or to specific slides.
To restore the theme defaults:
1 If you want to restore defaults to only certain slides, select them in the slide navigator
(press Command to select multiple slides).
2 Choose File > Choose Theme.
3 In the Theme Chooser, select the original theme and presentation size.
4 Make sure “Retain changes to theme defaults” is not selected.
5 Choose All Slides or Selected Slides from the Apply Theme To pop-up menu.
6 Click Choose.