What's more, every line you write in this outline is automatically a new slide in the presentation. On the Mac, open Keynote, start a presentation by choosing File, New and then in the View menu.
It is luckily very easy to create a slideshow on Mac via using the Option Spacebar. Firstly, open the “Finder” in the dock on your Mac and select the images of your preference. Press both “Option and Spacebar” keys on your keyboard. Afterwards, you can see that the selected images are displayed as a slideshow in full screen mode.
Apple Keynote is one of the most powerful tools to build a presentation on the macOS ecosystem. One advantage to the Keynote app is that it's got the feel of an Apple-designed piece of software, with a focus on design and ease-of-use. If you've used Microsoft PowerPoint to build a presentation, you'll feel right at home in the Keynote app.
Typically, there are three common ways inwhich you can create slides in PowerPoint. The first of these three ways is to create an outline, but all these three ways can becombined with each other. Having said so, it is best to start by creating an outline for your presentation in another program. Macusers can create outlines in TextEdit. Youcan also use Microsoft Word. In this tutorial, we'll show how you can use Word 365 for Macto create an outline for a PowerPoint presentation.
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Launch Finder. To do so, click the Mac HD icon on your desktop, and go to your Applicationsfolder, where you will find an icon for Word. Double click to run this application.
Opt to create a blank, new Word document so that you end up with something similar to what you see Figure 1.
Figure 1: Word 365 document
Now type in all the text content you want within your slide titles and text placeholders on separate lines, as shownin Figure 2. If you do not know what a text placeholder in PowerPoint is, look atour Text Boxes vs.Placeholders tutorial.
Figure 2: Text content for your slides
Access the Home tab of the Ribbon. Within the Styles group, hoveryour cursor over any of the style thumbnails. To see all the styles at the same time, click the small, downward pointing triangle(highlighted in red, see Figure 3). This brings up the drop-down Stylesgallery (see Figure 3 again). Click on the styles you want based on the explanations provided in the next step.
Figure 3: Styles gallery
Now you can format the outline so that PowerPoint can understand which line of text is a slide title, the first levelbullet, the second level bullet, etc. To do that you need to follow these guidelines:
For slide titles, select the text and choose Heading 1 style.
For first level bullets (or subtitles in a title slide), select the text and choose Heading 2 style.
For the second level bullets, select the text and choose Heading 3 style.
For any subsequent levels of bullets (third, fourth, etc.), select the text that you want to format, and apply the Headingstyle of that level (Heading 4, Heading 5, etc).
Once you are done with adding styles, change the view to Outline to view the outline as you seein Figure 4 (compare to Figure 2).
Figure 4: Text content for your slides after adding styles
One aspect that we want to draw your attention to is that you can only add the text content for a presentation within anoutline. However, at times, there may be some important, non-textual info in a presentation: this could be a picture, a chart, atable, or something else. In that case, you can indicate a reference within the outline. Just make it stand out a little different asshown in Figure 6. You'll notice that we added some text to indicate that a table has to be added to a particularslide, and it is within parentheses.
Figure 5: Indicating non-textual content within parentheses
Save your outline within Word as an RTF file. It is important that you save to an RTF (Rich Text Format) file ratherthan as a native Word document because PowerPoint for Mac can only import Word outlines saved as RTF files. To save as RTF, choosethe File | Save As menu option to bring up the Save As dialog box that you seein Figure 6.
Figure 6: Save As dialog box
In this dialog box, select the Format option (highlighted in redin Figure 6) to bring up the drop-down menu that lets you choose between different file formats that Word can saveto. In this drop-down menu, select the Rich Text Format (.rtf) option as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7: Rich Text Format option selected
This outline is now in a format that PowerPoint can import, and create new slides. To learn how to import this outlineinto PowerPoint 365 for Mac, look atour Import Outlines in PowerPoint 365 for Mactutorial. And, to learn how to import this outline into other versions of PowerPoint, lookhere: Outlines: Import.