Inserting multiple photos onto consecutive Keynote slides

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Inserting multiple photos onto consecutive Keynote slides

This was asked by another user in the iWork '08 forum (with no reply yet) but it is of interest to me in iWork '09 also.

Can you insert a large number of photos so each shows up on a consecutive slide (rather than all on top of one another on the same slide?) This isn't practical to do one at a time and I am hoping for an automatic way to get each photo on a new slide.

20" Intel Core Duo iMAC, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 2 GB Ram, Canon iP4300, CanoScan 4400F, EyeTV 200

Posted on Feb 26, 2009 6:57 PM

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Brian Peat

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Jan 22, 2011 12:48 PM in response to WebSailor

yeah, drag the photos into the slide list instead of onto a slide. It'll put one on each slide. 🙂

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WebSailor Author

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Jan 22, 2011 12:49 PM in response to Brian Peat

Wow, Brian, too easy, but I wasn't getting it!

I tried "Insert" etc. and got no where, looked in Help etc. to no avail.

Thanks for the quick response and the right answer.

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Jan 22, 2011 12:49 PM in response to Brian Peat

That has to be a 5 star tip Brian! 🙂

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Brian Peat

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Jan 22, 2011 12:49 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

thanks 🙂

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HaraldM

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Jan 22, 2011 12:49 PM in response to WebSailor

Had same problem last year with Keynote 08 and the same with Keynote 09, but with both versions the easy way to import images as described did not sort the images correctly.

My solution is to use iPhoto, create a folder of your images and use this folder to import in Keynote using the media button. Now, everything is sorted correct.

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Answer 6

Jan 22, 2011 12:49 PM in response to HaraldM

There is a problem with copying from Finder in anything other than column view.

The copy will be in scrambled order, but from column view it copies in alphabetic order. So if you had the images numbered they would come through consecutively. This has been a problem with Finder since OSX 10.0.

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