Auto shrink text

Auto shrink text: sometimes the checkbox is there, sometimes it isn't. See screen grab with no checkbox. Usually it's right under the "Text inset" line item...sometimes I want to turn this feature off but can't.

Follow up: Would like to turn the "Auto shrink text" feature off for the whole application globally and permanently. As a designer I like the text to all be the same on every slide. This is hard if the font size changes every time I open/close up a text box.

MacBook Pro 15", OS X 10.11

Posted on Mar 18, 2020 10:43 AM

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Gary Scotland

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Posted on Mar 18, 2020 3:59 PM

shrink text to fit

There are two types of text box in Keynote; preset and custom

1 - a preset text box has the shrink text to fit option available, they are used in the built in Themes and by selecting the Title and Body options in: Inspector > Format > Slide Layout

2 - a custom text box does not have the shrink text to fit option, they are created by inserting a text box using either;

Insert > Text Box or click the text button on the tool bar

If you do not want to use shrink text to fit with text, either deselect each text box used, add a custom text box to the slide, or create or amend an existing master slide using custom text boxes.

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