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Cannot Enter Text in Keynote

I'm using Keynote for almost the first time. I've created one slide by adding an image, now I'm trying to add a second slide with bullet points. However, when I try to overtype the placeholder text with my own, I find it is not allowed. The placeholder text remains in place and I continually get error beeps. I just cannot figure out what is wrong. The same problem occurs with any other type of slide, such a a title slide. I've checked the presentation title and the docuemnt is not locked.


Brian Smale

iMac 27″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Mar 9, 2022 1:52 PM

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Mar 10, 2022 4:35 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Thanks, Gary. In fact, yesterday, I followed exactly the instruction in the user guide that you've mentioned and tried to add a bullet slide. It came up with a template showing Bullet Level 1, Bullet Level 2 (indented), Bullet Level 3 (further indented), and so on. I could not select and overwrite any the the placeholder text; I just got error pings as I mentioned previously. Just now, I tried again to add a bullet slide and it's appearance was different - just one line of text that I could freely edit.


So what the heck was going on yesterday remains a complete mystery. Anyway, all is well now.


Best regards,


Brian

Cannot Enter Text in Keynote

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