Smart Art: A Keynote for Mac Presentation Design

When creating a presentation with Smart Art in Keynote for Mac, you may want to use a different slide layout for the first slide. To do this, click the Slide Layout button in the Format sidebar on the right and select a different layout from the options available. Each slide layout offers a unique arrangement of text and images that can serve as a starting point for your content.

If your connection is slow or you are offline when using Smart Art, placeholder images and slide backgrounds in the presentation may appear at a lower resolution until you are online again or the theme finishes downloading. Some themes may not be downloaded to your computer until you choose them or open a presentation that uses one.

To access different themes for your presentation, browse through categories in the theme chooser and double-click on a theme to open it. Note that if you want to format table and chart data using the conventions of another language, choose the language in the bottom-left corner before selecting a theme.

With Smart Art, you can also perform various tasks such as restoring an earlier version of a presentation, saving a large presentation as a package file, exporting to PowerPoint or another file format, changing a shared presentation's settings, following activity in a shared presentation, playing a slideshow with multiple presenters, and more.

In addition, you can use Smart Art to change the look of chart text and labels, add legends, gridlines, and other markings, convert charts from one type to another, calculate values using data in table cells, format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text, and apply styles using keyboard shortcuts. You can also create, rename, or delete paragraph styles, add bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough to text, and select text and place the insertion point.

Furthermore, Smart Art allows you to add linked objects to make your presentation interactive, move and edit objects using the object list, place objects inside a text box or shape, choose how to navigate your presentation, introduce images, charts, and other objects, and much more.

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