I can't drag to reorder bullets in a build. The different bullets don't move and the "order" menu can't be activated. Any help?

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I can't drag to reorder bullets in a build. The different bullets don't move and the "order" menu can't be activated. Any help?

When I open the Animate bar, and select Delivery by Bullet, then Build Order, it's impossible to change the order in which the bullets appear (it's much easier in Powerpoint). eg. in a series of bullets 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 I may want to display 1 and 3 (as questions) and then only show the answers 2 and 4 after, but still have them show in numerical order. I can't do this with Keyword.

How can this be resolved?

Posted on Jan 8, 2014 7:24 AM

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fizzogg Author

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Jan 8, 2014 8:38 AM in response to fizzogg

Can I just add that I was always able to do this with the previous version of Keynote (before Mavericks and the upgrade).

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Jan 9, 2014 3:19 AM in response to fizzogg

fizzogg wrote:

Can I just add that I was always able to do this with the previous version of Keynote (before Mavericks and the upgrade).

If you havnt deleted it, continue to use verion 5, its still in the applications folder, iWork 09.

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Jan 9, 2014 4:25 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Thanks for this, I'll try. It would be great if someone at Apple could solve this glitch on the new version though (are they reading?): the option to "drag and reorder build" is still being displayed even though nothing is happening.

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Jan 9, 2014 5:42 AM in response to fizzogg

There are many features that are not working or are not available that were functional in the previous version.

Apple have said they will have a programme to update these over the first 6 months of 2014.

Apple employees don't routinely read these forums.

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Jan 29, 2014 10:10 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Ahhhhh! Just wasted an hour trying to figure out how to use this "Build Order" feature on text bullets. Absolutely non functional in Keynote 6.1

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Jan 29, 2014 6:07 PM in response to byronfrombc

OK now in 6.1, as a workaround, if you create custom text boxes, one for each bullet, (using the Text tool) you can drag to reorder the bullets in the build order pane.

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Endocoug

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Nov 3, 2014 5:38 PM in response to fizzogg

I will add that I am having the same issue. It is STILL a problem! Very frustrating. Apple's help guide for the app even gives directions for how to do it yet it STILL does NOT work.

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Nov 4, 2014 2:00 AM in response to Endocoug

Keynote 6.2.2 for Mavericks and 6.5 for Yosemite still have this problem.

The workaround to create individual text boxes foreach line of text allows re-ordering in the build list.

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