Changing colour of text on bullet points on build out

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Changing colour of text on bullet points on build out

Is it possible under Keynote 3 to have a text bullet point change colour i.e. "fade" from white to grey as the next bullet point is displayed on a slide. You can do this easily from within powerpoint.

Also can you jump from the middle of one slide to another slideand then back again to where you left off. i.e. bullet point 2 of a slide has a hyperlink to a photograph on a different slide to illustrate that point, which is then hyperlinked back to the originating slide, however that slide starts from the top again and not from where you want to start which would be point 3.

Any help on solving these problems would be appreciated.

Powermac Dual 2.5GhZ G5 2 x 250gb HD2.5gb ram Mac OS X (10.4.4) 30" Cinema Display

Posted on Feb 9, 2006 10:32 AM

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Answer 1

Brian Peat

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Feb 9, 2006 11:21 AM in response to Trevor Craig

1. Yes, you can either do it all manually by stacking different colored bullet text on top of eachother and doing builds, OR you can simply choose By Highlighted Bullet as the type of build and it'll do the fades for you.

2. No, though if you KNOW exactly when you're likely to leave the slide, you could fake this by returning to a SECOND slide which is a copy of the first that has the previous bullets already showing. That's probably what I'd do.

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Answer 2

Feb 9, 2006 2:21 PM in response to Brian Peat

I've looked around under the Build tab in Keynote 3, but can't seem to locate "By Highlighted Bullet" anywhere. Could you clarify this? Thanks.

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Answer 3

Brian Peat

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Feb 9, 2006 5:59 PM in response to Greg Johnson5

choose an effect type, then look in the Delivery pop-up menu, it's there.

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Answer 4

Feb 9, 2006 9:05 PM in response to Brian Peat

Funny, no matter what Effect I choose, I only have "All at once" or "By paragraph" as options under "Delivery" for the a bulleted list. Am I doing something wrong?

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Answer 5

Brian Peat

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Feb 10, 2006 2:01 PM in response to Greg Johnson5

are you sure you're using the BODY box and not a regular text box that happens to have bullets in it? That function seems to NOT appear if you aren't using the official BODY box for that slide. My guess is that's your problem.

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Answer 6

Feb 10, 2006 3:22 PM in response to Brian Peat

Thanks Brian, I suspect that might be my problem...

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Answer 7

Feb 10, 2006 3:38 PM in response to Brian Peat

Brian,

I have not typically used Body Text Boxes, but rather always started from scratch with Free Text Boxes in a very simple theme. I was not really aware of the subtle difference between them, but certainly the ability to highlight them by bullet is nice.

Is there a way of creating a Body Text Box if there is not one in the Master Slide? or converting a Free text Box to a Body Text Box?

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Answer 8

Brian Peat

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Feb 10, 2006 7:44 PM in response to Greg Johnson5

Every slide has a body box, deleting it simply turns it off. The slide inspector has a check box to turn it back on. THe only major pain comes when you really want to use a slide that has the body box formatted for non-bulleted text, focing you to have to fiddle with the settings to get the bullets to look right.

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Answer 9

Feb 11, 2006 7:08 PM in response to Brian Peat

Thanks Brian, I will experiment with that...

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