changing Presenter Notes font size, color, etc

Thank you, Kelly, for the excellent instructions. I didn't even know that there WAS such a thing as the Automator.

While this worked for extracting the notes from the presentation, it still galls me that this abilty to extract the notes isn't a built-in feature. I'm using Keynote '11. SURELY by now this would be a standard feature and folks wouldn't have to create an Automator script to accomplish the task. Don't you think? And that's not even addressing the font size bug that everyone is pointing to.

Thanks again.

It's really easy to change the font size...

1. highlight the text in the notes section of any slide for the given powerpoint

2. press "command" + "+" to zoom in on the notes.

Not sure how to change the font or color.

Yes, this same thing has happened to me. Twice now, on a 172 slide presentation, the presenter notes have defaulted back to Helvetica 12 point after I went through each slide's notes to make them larger. This is a major pain.

Hi,

If you want to change the colour of the text that appears Within the Notes tab.

You can go through Click on the "View" >> "Notes Page".

When editing the text, jump back to the "Home" tab to get to the font properties.

Select the notes section (That Text where you want to change the colour) and Change the text colour from the Home tab.

If you have a large number of slides and you want to change each one, you could also write a macro that will do the work for you.

If any doubts or questions, please let me know.

Thanx and Regards,

Ankit Sudhera

ankitbnl406 [at] gmail.com

I just saw this question, and I do understand that sometimes if we are merging presentations etc. presenter note fonts and sizes can get jammed.
I address this as an Applescript problem. I guess that the way that I do my presenter notes is to write out what I am going to say as a speech in Pages. I have a paragraph for the slide number and another paragraph for the notes (actually, I usually insert these at the end). Anyway, using applescript I load the notes into memory and write them to each slide. You can of course, also get all the presenter notes, write them to Pages, edit them there, and write them back to the Keynote..alternatively, you can iterate through all the slides and set the font, size and colour (or 'color') as you need.

For the purpose of simplicity, make sure you have a keynote presentation open. this will insert a new slide at the beginning with a formatted presenter note. To edit its format or content or placing, copy it into an AppleScript Editor, compile it and just edit the script below.

--For the purpose of simplicity, make sure you have a keynote presentation open. this will insert a new slide at the beginning with a formatted presenter note. To edit its format or content or placing, just edit the script below.

Tim Murphy

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tell application "Keynote"

activate

--:here is how you can get the presenter notes of any Keynote slide.

set theCurrentSlideNote to get presenter notes of slide 1 of the front document as text

--:here we create a new blank slide at the start of your presention

set the newSlide to make new slide at the beginning of slides of the front document

tell slide 1 of the front document

--:now we set the presenter note content

set theSlidePresenterNote to "Applescript can be used to set the properties of the presenter notes of each and every slide. We must bear in mind that we need to address the document, then the slide and then the slide's presenter notes. I hope that this script gives you some ideas"

set its presenter notes to theSlidePresenterNote

--:and now we modifiy the note's font, size and color

tell its presenter notes

set the properties of first paragraph to ¬

{font:"Harrington", size:68, color:{10000, 10000, 10000}} --colour is black.

log the properties of first paragraph

end tell

end tell

end tell
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The way I have found to do it is to prepare your text in Pages, with the text formatted to how you want it (colours as well), and then drag the text selections you want from Pages into Presenter Notes. This copies the text with all the formatting.

The font size in presenter notes is governed by its font style. Use the format font menu to change the font in a slide to what you want. Then in the format menu, update the font style to match the selection. That should change the presenter notes in all slides that were in the default presenter notes style.