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In build order, can't drag items in Keynote

In Keynote, under build order, it won't let me drag to reorder the cells of my inserted spreadsheet. I read that this was a bug. I have the latest version of Keynote installed. Has anyone figured out how to make it work? Thanks for any help you can offer!

Posted on Aug 30, 2019 11:53 AM

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Posted on Aug 31, 2019 9:33 AM

Individual cells in a table are unable to be reordered in the build order list, I certainly would use this often.

This is not a bug as it is not a recognised feature in Keynote; it is not documented in Keynote Help.


A workaround is to:

copy the spreadsheet into Text Edit, go to Format > Make Plain Text

drag and drop the text from each cell one at a time in to the Keynote slide

this creates individual text boxes which can then be animated and reordered in the build order list

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Aug 31, 2019 9:33 AM in response to wcb0333

Individual cells in a table are unable to be reordered in the build order list, I certainly would use this often.

This is not a bug as it is not a recognised feature in Keynote; it is not documented in Keynote Help.


A workaround is to:

copy the spreadsheet into Text Edit, go to Format > Make Plain Text

drag and drop the text from each cell one at a time in to the Keynote slide

this creates individual text boxes which can then be animated and reordered in the build order list

In build order, can't drag items in Keynote

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