How To Create Themes In Keynote '08

One day, I decided that I was sick and tired of having to change the background and manually lay out all the elements in my keynote presentation. So, rather than not making any more, I decided that I would make my own theme. So, I went into keynote, designed a good looking theme, and went to File>Save Theme... After saving my beautiful theme I closed my document and opened up a new one. However, when I chose my theme from the theme chooser dialog box, nothing happened. It just showed me the "white" theme I had built off of. Well, I went onto the internet and found no help. None. Since I'm not one to pay for something I can probably figure out myself, I started looking. And here's how you do it.

How to create themes in keynote '08.

Creating themes in keynote really isn't that hard. There's just one secret step. Rather than building your theme from a slide, you have to build your theme from a master slide. To do this, merely drag the divider that's underneath the "Themes" button. This will reveal all the masters. Now, go about editing them as you please. Changing backgrounds. Adding in pictures. Setting fonts. You name it. Once you've done all this, go to File>Save Theme... and save your theme to the Themes folder. (Automatically selected.) That's it! It will now show up inside the theme dialog box.

Now that you know this information, go out and design some cool theme. Then, submit it to be posted on the blog!