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changing Presenter Notes font size, color, etc

So, I've been puzzled for the longest time how to change the Presenter Notes text / paragraph for all slides at one time.
I often import files from PPT and need to type notes during lectures. However, sometimes, the presenter notes text is white, and then I have to change each slide to black text as I move along the lecture.
Other times, I need to change the font type and line spacing.

Is there a way to change all presenter notes text/paragraph all at once?
If I select all slides, the option to change the Presenter Notes grays out.
And the option is not available if I select the master slides.
And, there is no option to 'make text the default' setting, as often enough this might be an expected menu item but I can't seem to see anything of similar nature.

I welcome all comments.
Regards. Radu

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 25, 2010 9:43 AM

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Posted on Sep 14, 2017 1:36 AM

Hi!


I'm using version 7.2. I discovered by chance that when you change any parameter in the section for the presenter notes, a blue "update" button appears on the top right section. Press that, and any changes you've made will apply to all presenter notes.


Hope this helps

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Nov 21, 2014 3:53 AM in response to iRadu

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

Feb 22, 2015 5:18 PM in response to iRadu

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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Apr 5, 2015 5:55 AM in response to iRadu

In the latest Keynote, you can click on the presenter notes of any slide, and you should see on the right the "Presenter Notes" style currently applied to the text. If you don't see that, then you should make sure all presenter notes on slides first have the same base style applied.


Now you can change any style settings of the text (font, size, etc.), then apply them on all presenter notes by clicking on the style name, then on the right arrow next to the "Presenter Notes" entry in the dropdown menu, then selecting "Redefine from selection". Now all presenter notes should be the same new style.


Note that this operation will preserve any changes in the text to the base style (e.g., making some parts of the text bold).

changing Presenter Notes font size, color, etc

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