How can I find a font in a Keynote presentation?

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How can I find a font in a Keynote presentation?

Is there a way to do a "find" for the places that a particular font appears in a set of Keynote slides?

When I opened a Keynote presentation I'd created last year I got a warning that it could not find "MS PGothic" -- which is likely true since I don't use that particular font. The warning told me that this font was on the 2nd slide but all I see there is the standard TNR font that I use for text blurbs. I'd like to search for where this random font appears but I could not find a way to include a font-spec in the Edit->Find parameters.

Is there some place where I can see all the fonts in use in a presentation and, more specifically, pinpoint the places were a given font is in use?

This is Keynote on my computer, not the iPad rendition of Keynote.

MBair, MBPro, Mini, iStuff

Posted on Oct 10, 2013 3:41 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 11, 2013 5:41 AM in response to keriah

There is not a find fonts feature in Keynote.

you can click Replace Font in the warning dialogue (View > Document Warnings)

If that does not work, delete the slide and recreate it.

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keriah Author

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Oct 12, 2013 4:19 PM in response to Gary Scotland

The Replace Font wasn't useful because the rogue font was not visible and, thus, a change to some other font (even when I picked one that should have been a stand-out) didn't help me locate the bad spot(s). I did use your suggestion and created a new slide, moving bits onto it from the 'bad' slide until I got that new one to 'break' also.

I eventually narrowed it down to the 'soft' line breaks I'd inserted in some of the text blocks. For some reason that I can't explain those line-break characters had rendered in that MS PGothic font, which I don't use (and which I had disabled). Once I knew the pattern, it was a fairly simple matter to select the text block (including the line breaks) and reapply the paragraph's font. And, viola!, the warnings are now gone.

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Answer 3

Oct 13, 2013 3:24 AM in response to keriah

Thanks for reporting back, font issues can be tricky to solve.

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