Add text to a Keynote slide

To add text to a slide, apart from existing placeholder text, add a text box and type text in it. There are text-specific controls for changing the appearance of text—including its font, color, size, and alignment.

You can also add and edit text in a shape or table cell and format it like any other text.

Replace placeholder text

Double-click placeholder text and type your own.
Some placeholder text is written in scrambled Latin words. The text you type will appear in the language you use for your computer.

Create a text box

Click in the toolbar.
A text box is added to your slide (you can change how the text looks later).
Drag the text box to where you want it.
If you can’t move the box, click outside the box to deselect the text, then click the text once to select its text box.
Type to replace the placeholder text.
To resize the text box, do one of the following:
- If the box is too small for the text: Select the text box, then drag the clipping indicator (+) until all text is showing. You can also drag a selection handle.
- If the box is too large for the text: Select the text box, then drag a selection handle to resize the text box.

To delete a text box, click the text in the box (a gray outline appears around it), then press Delete on your keyboard.

The text box itself is an object that can be modified like most other objects; you can rotate the text box, change its border, fill it with a color, layer it with other objects, and more.

Add text inside a shape

Double-click the shape to make the insertion point appear, then type your text.
If there’s too much text to display in the shape, a clipping indicator (+) appears. To resize the shape, select it, then drag any selection handle until all the text is showing.

You can format the text inside the shape just like any other text on your slide.