Q: Opening the color palette using the keyboard shortcut doesn't change the color?
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May 26, 2016 3:33 AMby Gary Scotland,command shift C is the keyboard command to open the colour palette, it is not the command to change colour.
Change colour of objects text & shapes
- Click the text box on the slide to select
- Open the colour palette
- Click on the colour wheel to select the colour
- Click and drag from the colour patch next to the colour picker icon and drop on to the colour well
in fill, border or shadow - Repeat as many times as required
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May 26, 2016 6:47 PMby grantholle,I get that the keyboard shortcut opens the color palette, but what's the point of just "opening it" to not do anything?
If I have text, a shape, or anything else that I want to change the color of selected, opening the color palette by keyboard shortcut should, in my opinion (and I dare to say good UX), change the color.
I understand, like in the picture above, where multiple colors are optional. In this case I would expect the keyboard shortcut to change it most base color (e.g. the text color itself rather than drop shadow color, etc.). This is totally what I expect to happen. I just can't accept that a keyboard shortcut to open a color palette does nothing. It works after I've opened it manually by moving my cursor and clicking, which totally defeats the purpose of a "shortcut."
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May 27, 2016 8:22 AMby Gary Scotland,I get that the keyboard shortcut opens the color palette, but what's the point of just "opening it" to not do anything?
To give me the choice of what colour setting I want to use, not for Keynote to use a single preset colour for every thing I need to design. Bit limiting wouldn't you say.
If I have text, a shape, or anything else that I want to change the color of selected, opening the color palette by keyboard shortcut should, in my opinion (and I dare to say good UX), change the color.
How would the colour palette know which colour to use?
I would expect the keyboard shortcut to change it most base color (e.g. the text color itself rather than drop shadow color, etc.). This is totally what I expect to happen. I just can't accept that a keyboard shortcut to open a color palette does nothing.
In other words you want a keyboard command for each of the 16,777,215 million colours that a Mac can produce?
How would that work?
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May 27, 2016 7:27 PMby grantholle,I don't think you're understanding what I'm trying to say. I don't want the keyboard shortcut to change the color for me. I want it to open the palette and allow me to choose the color. My problem is that clicking the color palette icon and subsequent actions should be equivalent to me opening the color palette with a keyboard shortcut and making subsequent actions. In either situation, only the thing selected or active (text, shape, etc) will change color.
Your first comment made sense to me in that, for example, text could have multiple colors associated with it - the color of the text and color of a drop shadow. In this situation Keynote wouldn't know what color I want to change using the keyboard shortcut, which is why if it had some default behavior it would be ideal (e.g. only the text color).
Just a small grievance that I just have to accept I guess. Thanks for your help Gary.
I made a video of what I'm talking about.
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May 29, 2016 5:00 AMby Gary Scotland,I don't think you're understanding what I'm trying to say. I don't want the keyboard shortcut to change the color for me.
Thats not what I understood from your previous posts.
Lets simplify this; if you had asked this question:
How do I change the colour of an object on a slide in Keynote?
My reply would be:
To change the colour of an object, whether text, shape, line, chart or the slide background, requires a maximum of three clicks:
1 - click the object to select
2 - click the colour circle in the Inspector
3 - click on the colour palette
