Copy and paste object position

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Copy and paste object position

Hello

I am fairly new to Keynote from Powerpoint.

I had a tool in powerpoint which enable me to "copy" an object's size and position then "paste" that size and position to an object on another slide (it was a macro - not part of Powerpoint itself). Specifically I have many slides with text boxes and I want the text boxes to be the same size and position on every slide. They are already in the slides (got brought over from PowerPoint) but font and other things have slightly messed everything up so now I want to sort it out again.

Is there anyway I can do this? I know copy style but that doesn't seem to do it but maybe I am missing something. I know the object has position tags and though maybe they could be used in some way.

Many thanks for your help

Deb

Macbook 13" and MBP 15", Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Dec 19, 2007 8:14 PM

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Answer 1

Tulse

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Dec 19, 2007 8:42 PM in response to djaneb

One way to rectify things would be to copy the X position from the Metrics Inspector of a text box in correct location, then paste that into the X position field in the Metrics Inspector of the text boxes to be adjusted, and then do the same for the Y position.

However, a faster approach might be simply to create a blank text box on one of the slides, position it where you want, then copy and paste that box on all the other slides -- when pasted, it will be in the same position as on the original slide. You can then cut and paste the text from the old text boxes to the new one.

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djaneb Author

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Dec 19, 2007 10:11 PM in response to Tulse

Thanks for your response. I was afraid of that!! Lots of text boxes to manipulate one by one.

But it is a small price to pay for so many other advantages!

Deborah

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Answer 3

Dec 21, 2007 2:11 AM in response to djaneb

Another approach that could work is to create guides on the master slides and the simply drag the text boxes on every slide until they snap to the guides.

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djaneb Author

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Dec 21, 2007 3:44 AM in response to Frederic Sebton

Thank you for this suggestion. I am experimenting with Master Slides now. They are very flexible and I think the best solution once I have mastered them.

Deb

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