Keynote Page Numbers

Page numbers are set in the Master slide for the slides you are using:

open the master slide; view > edit master slides

in format inspector, select slide number

then click on the page number text box and in the inspector format > text > style change colour, font, and alignment

you can then move the page number box to any position in the slide, this shows top right,

coloured red in Helvetica italic:

How do you get it to show up in the same place for every slide?

How do you get it to show up in the same place for every slide?

I described in detail exactly how to do this in my post - did you try it?

Of course. I wouldn't have mentioned it if I hadn't. Every time I click the checkbox in subsequent slides or select "show slide numbers on all slides" they default to being at the center bottom, not on the bottom left, for instance, where I had defined it to be in the first Master Slide. The problem isn't that they aren't showing up, it is that they aren't showing up in the position I defined.

It appears that the OP is experiencing the same issue with the consistent positioning.

My question was related to the consistent position of page numbers across multiple master slides.

After creating a single slide master for your page number layout, duplicate it in the Navigator pane as many times as you need (command D). Make changes to each new slide master as you need and change the name of each for easy selection.

I have over 50 master slides that have already been created. I'm trying to avoid recreating all of them by duplicating one slide that has the page number set correctly.

All thats involved is to set the position, size, colour and font of one page number on one slide master, copy it (command C), then go to each of your other slide masters in turn to delete the existing page number, then paste (command V) the new page number on the slide master. That will take only a few minutes to complete.

Do you know why the text box size of the page number is greyed out? On some slides both the hieght and width are editable but on others one or the other is greyed out or automatically set to a different value? Is it based on the character spacing?

This will be rectified by the above routine, changing one page numbers properties will be copied over to all your other masters.

All thats involved is to set the position, size, colour and font of one page number on one slide master, copy it (command C), then go to each of your other slide masters in turn to delete the existing page number, then paste (command V) the new page number on the slide master. That will take only a few minutes to complete.

I am in the same boat as the OP. I had tried doing what you suggest originally but didn't have any luck as the pasted page number text box just said, "Text" in it when I pasted it onto other slides. It didn't inherit it's original status as a page number even though it did paste into the correct place.

So I ended up having to go through the deck by hand and pixel position each page number one at a time.

when I pasted it onto other slides. It didn't inherit it's original status as a page number even though it did paste into the correct place.

You do understand I have explained the page number is to be pasted into a Slide Master not a slide?

However, If Keynote isnt showing the pagenumber the application is faulty and you should repair it:

1 delete all the iWork applications if you have them, not just Keynote by using Appcleanerfrom Mac Update to do this, its freeware

2 restart the Mac; Apple menu > restart

3 immediately after the start chime, press the shift key until you see the Apple symbol.

let it fully boot up, it will take longer as the OS is repairing the drive

4 when fully booted, go to Applications > Utilities > Disc Utility; click on the boot drive then First Aid tab and click repair disc permissions

5 when complete, restart the Mac normally

6 install Keynote from the Mac App Store

You do understand I have explained the page number is to be pasted into a Slide Master not a slide?

Yep! Until I found this thread I thought perhaps that was just one of the feature regressions with the new version of Keynote as I had never had the issue with previous versions.

I'll give Appcleaner a shot! Thanks for that suggestion.

Has anyone found a current/final solution for this?