Tagged: keynote

Keynote cannot play slideshow…

Turns out that you might have been accidentaly recording the entire time!  R-steveo to the rescue. “Littlequi,

I just had the same thing happen to me. Here is what I believe is happening– somehow you hit the command to record the slideshow, and you have been recording ever since. So under the File menu, choose “Clear Recording” and see if things don’t go back to normal. Just spent an hour trying to figure this out!”

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Keynote workaround for how to change the color (or fill) of a SINGLE bar in a bar chart series

This is a very clever work around.  Thanks Tulse! “It is unfortunately impossible — the individual bars are not selectable. As a workaround you can a) overlay them with a rectangular object, or b) overlay them with a second chart identical to the first, with all the bars except the two set to zero.”

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Need to batch replace images in Keynote 09?

Keynote (presentation software)
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This is a great solution.  It involves renaming the keynote file temporarily and then accessing it like a normal folder.  Good solution Tulse! “Keynote files are still packages, but the default behaviour for Keynote is to compress them as a ZIP file. If you change the file extension from .key to .zip, then uncompress the result, you will get a folder with the package contents, including the images. To make this back into a standard package, just add the .key extension to the folder (to get the compressed package, first compress the folder, then add the .key).

You can control whether a package is stored as a single compressed file or not in the Keynote Preferences.”

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