Changing the theme, Setting a theme to use for new documents – Apple Keynote 3 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Creating a Presentation

Choose a slide size from the Slide Size pop-up menu.

For highest quality playback, your slide size should match the screen resolution of the

display on which the slideshow will appear. Keynote offers an HD resolution of 1920 x

1080 (not all themes offer this resolution). Most projectors work best with slides set at

the 1024 x 768 size; newer projectors can display slides at a higher resolution. All

Keynote themes come optimized for 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 sizes.

If your display is larger than one of the sizes mentioned here, you can set a custom

slide size for your Keynote presentation. For more information, see “Changing the

Note: Higher resolutions require more memory and faster processing.

Click Choose.

Changing the Theme

You can change the theme for a slideshow at any time.

To apply a different theme to a slide presentation:

Click Themes in the toolbar and scroll to select a theme (or choose File > Choose

Theme and select a theme).

You can choose to apply the new theme to the selected slide or to all the slides when

you use the Theme Chooser.

Setting a Theme to Use for New Documents

You can specify a particular theme to be used for any new documents you create. This

means that you bypass choosing a theme each time you create a new slideshow. You

can still change the theme for a slideshow at any time.

To specify the theme used for new documents:

Choose Keynote > Preferences and click General.

Select “Use theme” and click Choose.

Select the theme you want, choose a slide size from the Slide Size pop-up menu, and

click Choose.