Placing Text Within Shapes

Placing Text Within Shapes

Another of the many new features in Keynote 2 is the ability to place text directly within shapes you've created in Keynote. Shapes can have any kind of color , gradient, or image fill, and the text that you add will be overlaid on the fill. Text inside the shape rewraps as you resize the shape.

To add text to a shape

1.	Using the Shapes menu on the toolbar, place a shape on the slide you'reworking with.
2.	Resize the shape to your liking, and add a color, gradient, or image fill as needed.
3.	Double-click in the middle of the shape. An insertion point will appear, centered in the shape.
4.	Type the text you want in the shape ( Figure 5.36 ). Figure 5.36. This text is embedded in the shape, moves with the shape, and rewraps as the shape is resized.

Tip

• You can make the text adjustments available to any Keynote text by selecting the text within the shape and using the options in the Text Inspector.