How to Organise your slideshows

1 Start a new project

Start a new project in Keynote (or open an existing one you want to edit). Choose a template to start with – if you want to create your own style, choose the basic Black or White options, since they’re easiest to alter.

2 View Master Slides

Choose View > Edit Master Slides. Doing this changes the left pane’s contents to show the different basic slide types for your chosen template. These are editable – just click one to select it, then tweak its layout.

3 Add a new Master Slide

click on any of the Master Slides and choose New Master Slide to create a duplicate of the one that’s selected, which you can then customise as much as you like. click it and choose Rename to give it a more useful title.

4 Reorganise Master Slides

To get rid of a Master Slide, click it and choose Delete. You can reorder the Master Slides by dragging them up and down in the list. To finish editing Master Slides, click Done in the blue bar beneath the main editing pane.

5 Group slides together

When you build a complex presentation, it’s useful to organise your slides into groups. You can collapse groups of slides down in the sidebar to make it easier to navigate, too. You even make groups within groups.

6 Create a group

First, hold and click each slide you want to add to the group, then drag any one of them slightly to the right. When you see a blue line to its left, let go. Those slides are now grouped under the slide above the blue line.

7 Tweak a group

You can drag slides left to ungroup them, or right again to create a subgroup. You can change which slide they’re grouped under by dragging them up or down through the list of slides – the blue line shows where they’ll sit.

8 Skip slides

Got some slides that aren’t relevant to your audience? Don’t delete them! click them and choose Skip Slide. When you run the presentation, they won’t appear. To reverse this, click them and select Don’t Skip Slide.