When creating a presentation using Keynote for your students you may want to deviate from the background slide color.
Generally I start with a white background for my presentations, however sometimes a black background looks really nice. Open up the inspector. The 2nd icon is the slide inspector. By default you will be looking at slide transitions, click instead on the Appearance button. There you can change the color of the background slide color.
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3 thoughts on “Changing the Background on a Keynote Slide”
Alice, is there Inspector capability in Keynote for iOS? Thank you. Chuck Cohen
Yes… but it is not the same. The new Keynote does things differently, will have to make all new blog posts.
Gee, just what i needed! Thanks Alice! 🙂