Layering Text

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Once text has been created in text boxes on a slide, the text box can be treated, in many ways, as if it were a graphic object. You can move text boxes around and rotate them, apply drop shadows and graphic fills, and change the opacity of the text. For more about those topics, see Chapter 5, and remember that the same tools can be applied equally to graphics and text boxes.

There's another useful text manipulation you can do, and that is to layer text boxes with the other elements on the slide. Imagine that each element—text, graphics, movies, shapes , etc.—on the slide is in its own layer on the slide, with the master slide making up the layer that's in the back. You can move each element forward or back in the stack. It's possible to get some interesting results by layering, as shown in Figure 4.8 .

Figure 4.8. The text behind the snowboarder was created, rotated , then sent behind the snowboarder and behind the picture cutout for added effect.


To layer text boxes

1.
Create the text boxes on the slide that you want to layer.

These boxes can include the Title and Body text boxes.

2.
Select a text box.

3.
To move the text box backward in the layer order, click the Back button in the toolbar.

or

To move the text box forward in the layer order, click the Forward button in the toolbar.

The selected item moves as you command ( Figure 4.9 ).

Figure 4.9. This text box was brought in front of the graphic on this slide.


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Keynote 2 for Mac OS X. Visual QuickStart Guide
Keynote 2 for Mac OS X. Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN: 321197755
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 179

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