theme or master: format comments (stickies)

Unfortunately, there is no way to set a default text size for Keynote Comments.

However, you can save some time and navigation movements if you add your comments in one session. After creating the first comment and (sadly) adjusting the font, select the text and Format > Copy Style (Option-CMD-C). Then when you create the next comment all you have to do is Format Paste Style (Option-CMD-V) before you type anything and the style of the last comment will be used.

Not as graceful as setting a default and not needing to fiddle with text, but it does save some time.

Try it.

Of course, if you would like the folks at Apple to know your needs, give them some feedback:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote.html

bwfromspring hill wrote:

Unfortunately, there is no way to set a default text size for Keynote Comments.

Not true!

There is a very quick & easy fix for this. Open your keynote doc. Add your comment. Format it the way you like - colour fill, font style, size, whatever. Click out of the comment & then single click on it to select it.

Then go to Format-->Advanced --> Define Comment for all Masters.

Every time you insert a comment thereafter on a slide built on the Masters in that doc (or other docs with same Master), it will carry the formatiing you have set.

CAVEAT: When you are working with a brand new master, created by someone else & now imported onto your system, for example, you will have to set your default comment as above to be used with that master. But quite honestly, small price to pay I think!

Voila! 🙂

iPhoneMum says :

"Click out of the comment & then single click on it to select it.

Then go to Format-->Advanced --> Define Comment for all Masters."

What version of Keynote are you using? I'm using Keynote '09 v5.2 on OSX 10.7.4 and the option doesn't exist. Was this added with OSX 10.8 to work with the Keynote '09 patch issued last week?

bwfromspring hill wrote:

I'm using Keynote '09 v5.2 on OSX 10.7.4 and the option doesn't exist.

I'm using the identical specs to you - Keynote '09 v5.2 on OSX 10.7.4 - and I can assure you the option DOES exist if you follow all the steps I outlined. Significantly, you must have a comment inserted & then have selected it like a whole object, by clicking on it once. You will then find that the greyed out options for defining Charts you have screen shot above will be replaced by selectable options for Comments:

Tada! 🙂

I stand corrected. Nice.

When I clicked in the comment, it made an insertion and the option was not available.

Clicking to select the Comment Object, not the text did the trick. Thanks for the neat trick.

Aminabot: You should mark iPhonemum's answer as the correct one!

Who knows — anyway, glad to have this one sorted out. That Marker Felt font was really getting on my nerves...