I do not find this feature any more. This is a must especially because you run in to the trouble when open Keynote 5 -presentations. Some parts of the text is turned to extremely loose. I can no belive that tracking is gone, maybe I just can not find it from this new UI?
OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
There is some hope this will be included in the planned updates for Keynote.
So this is a known mishap? Sigh. Now my presentations do look quite amateurish typographic-wise, and the very reason to choose Keynote was pro-look. I have to write everything to a clean text box if I want to get rid of unwanted tracking. (This has to be something that is herited or converted wrongly from Keynote 5 -docs) There is really something odd going on at Cupertino.
Keynote 6 is a completely new 64 bit version created specifically for Mavericks, it has no link to previous versions other than it uses the same name, it should be treated as an application that is work in progress.
The best advice is to use version 6 to create new projects, and use version 5 to update existing projects.
"use version 5 to update existing projects"
Sure. But if I update them in Keynote 5, I can not present them reliably with Mavericks. (I am sure it is common knowledge now that the VRAM-memory glitch prevents that.)
If I only had known better, I would have never updated my PowerBook to Mavericks, but when it was done just figured out that I will update my presentations to Keynote 6 and solve the problem this way.
What I should have done – and I recommend this to every one with the same situation (huge amount of complex presentations) – is downgrade back to 10.8 and work in Keynote 5 and re-consider the situation, lets say after 2015.
Now I just rework every other slide from scrath, I can not do it anymore, since 25 % of presentations are already upgarded to 6. Huge amount of otiose work.
Found a simple work-a-round:
1) Find a text with uncorrect tracking
2) Create new text style just like it
3) Apply that style to the problem text bloc
4) Repeat, repeat etc
5) Case solved
This requires that every sentence must be in a style, but depending on ones workflow this is not problem at all, or then again, it can be.
Hope this helps brothers in arms.
It is there but just not very well sign posted.
Some more advanced typographic controls are hidden there.
MB user, thanks a lot. This saved my day, not... my month. What a strange, strange UI solution.
Has letter-spacing (tracking) been dropped from Keynote 6?
