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110 Chapter 7 Slide Transitions and Object Builds
You can specify a delay up to 60 seconds. You can specify a delay only if you choose to
start the build automatically (rather than “on click”).
You can also make objects exit the slide in any order by making selections in the Build
Out pane of the Build Inspector. If you have elements on a slide that build in and
elements that build out, you can mix the build in and build out orders, so that any
individual element might move on and off the screen before another one moves on
the screen.
Text Builds
You can also use builds to make text move onto or off of slides. Keynote provides
options for building text line by line or character by character. You can create text
builds for bulleted text (body placeholder text) or for “free” text boxes you create.
To set up a text build:
1 Select the text and assign it a build effect, direction, duration, and order, as described
in the previous section.
2 Choose a delivery style from the Delivery pop-up menu.
 All at Once moves all text in the text box at the same time.
 By Bullet moves text bullet by bullet.
 By Bullet Group moves each bullet and its subordinate bullets together.
 By Highlighted Bullet highlights each bullet as it moves, leaving only the last bullet
highlighted.
 By Paragraph moves text in free text boxes a paragraph at a time.
Choose how to move
text on or off the slide.
Choose an effect to make
text appear or leave the
slide.