Custom theme with particular (text) content on every (master) slide

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Custom theme with particular (text) content on every (master) slide

I don't want to create a theme for every single presentation I prepare. I want to open my custom theme and start adding contents to my slides. However, there is some content that should show up on every single slide. E.g., my name and a reference to the particular occasion should be present on every slide.

Here is how I think this should work: I have to create a text box with that content on the master slide(s). Obviously, it would be rather unnerving to edit every single master slide. Naturally, I just want to define some content that will show up on all my master slides.

Unfortunately, I could not find out how to achieve this. Any help is welcome.

Keynote '09 5.0-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 2, 2012 5:55 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 2, 2012 8:56 AM in response to ja0770

view > show master slides

right click on any master > new master slide

add your design elements to be shown on every slide

you can thene add placeholders for text and graphics if prefered here

inspector > slide inspector > appearance

you can now save this as a theme so it can be used on future projects

read the Keynote user manual chapter > designing master slides and themes to see how this is done

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ja0770 Author

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Dec 2, 2012 9:49 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Dear Gary,

thanks for your reply. As far as I understand your suggestion, I would create a master slide the contents of which are then applied to every slide that inherits from that master, then save that as a theme.

However, I think you have misunderstood my aim resp. my problem.

I have a theme with a nicely flexible collection of master slides which I would like to use on several occasions. Let's say there were 20 master slides, and my presentation of let's say 100 slides would make use of a certain set of those.

Now I would set up my my presentation for e.g. ThinkConf 2012, and I would like each slide in my presentation to say "ThinkConf 2012, MyName" next to the slide number. Since the slides would by based on an unforeseeable subset of master slides, I would have to edit every single master slide beforehand. Naturally, I would prefer to take a pass on that work step.

Thanks again, and please reiterate if have misunderstood your suggestion.

Any further help is very welcome!

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Answer 3

ja0770 Author

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Dec 3, 2012 1:57 AM in response to ja0770

I conclude that Keynote does not afford this basic function.

If you want a theme to contain certain content on every master slide, you will have to edit every single master slide manually.

This has been faulted at least since 2006 (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/421882).

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