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Designing Your Own
Master Slides and Themes

This chapter is for designers who want to use the
powerful graphics capabilities in Keynote to create
their own master slides and themes.

This chapter assumes you are already familiar with the Keynote design and formatting

features described in previous chapters.

The themes that come with Keynote are sets of master slide layouts, backgrounds,

charts, tables, and text styles. Within each theme, master slides define the following

slide attributes:

 Default position of title and body text

 Background graphics

 Default fonts

 Default bullet styles

 Default position for charts, tables, and images (the object placeholder)

 Object fills and line styles for drawn objects and tables

 Chart style

 Slide transition style

 Alignment guides

You can modify any of these attributes to customize any master slide within a theme.

When you change a master slide, the changes appear on every slide that uses that

master. You can modify a master slide without affecting the default themes available

in other Keynote documents.