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437 tips for making more of apple’s cloud service & itunes
Contents Essentials
iTunes & Apple Music
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Get started with iCloud Master iCloud Drive Your Apple ID Secure your Apple ID
Core Apps
Make the most of iCloud
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Make the most of Mail Browse the web with Safari Make a date with Calendar Make the most of Reminders Make the most of Notes Sign in with iCloud Keychain Work better across devices Use iCloud Drive in Sierra Using iCloud Drive in iOS Keep in touch with Contacts Find your Mac, iPad or iPhone Locate your friends Stay abreast of the news Pay for things more easily When to use iCloud.com Manage iOS backups
Photos
Sync, share and edit images 66 72 76
Make more of your photos in macOS Get to know the Photos app for iOS Use iCloud Photo Sharing
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Enjoy media across all your devices Get to know iTunes 12 Get started with Apple Music The iTunes Store Master iCloud Music Library Share music, books and apps Download great books Listen to podcasts Improve your knowledge
Next Steps
Pages, Keynote, Numbers & more
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Layout newsletters in Pages Writing with Pages for iOS Design with Pages online Make more of Keynote Make great presentations Using Keynote for iCloud Chart your family history Keep track of your finances Numbers for iCloud Collaborate with others Save web receipts to iCloud The Home app in iOS 10 iCloud problems solved
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essentials | Master iCloud Drive
Your desktop, anywhere In Sierra, all those files you dump on the desktop can be put online automatically, making them available on any Mac, PC or iOS device A big advantage of cloud-based storage is that it frees you from needing to have a specific device to hand in order to get at essential files. If all your files are readily accessible on all of your devices – whether you’re currently using an iMac with a huge screen, putting your feet up with a svelte MacBook, cradling an iPad or iPhone, or even using a PC or Android tablet – you’re freed from having to worry about where you saved an important document and whether you can access it right now (At least if your devices have been able to connect to the internet to sync things, anyway!). With iCloud Drive, Apple doesn’t yet enable you to sync the entirety of your Mac’s storage to the cloud, but it does now offer an almost absurdly simple method for sharing your
Desktop and Documents folders between all your devices. As shown in the walkthrough opposite, the process is as simple as clicking a checkbox, waiting a while for everything to upload, and then gleefully accessing your files and folders anywhere you’re able to sign in to iCloud, but there are caveats to be mindful of. First and foremost, iCloud Drive isn’t a bottomless pit. In fact, it’s not even a terribly deep pit if you stick with its free tier, which gives you a miserly 5GB of space, beyond which you have to pay. If you want to put 1TB of data in iCloud Drive, it’ll cost you £6.99 per month. Second, iCloud Drive is reliant on internet connectivity to keep everything in sync across your devices. If you have the world’s slowest broadband (bear in mind its upload speed is
likely slower than going the other way), you should perhaps steer clear of putting massive files in iCloud Drive. Sadly, Apple doesn’t provide granularity in iCloud Drive’s settings. It’d be lovely to have the ability to put our Desktop online and keep Documents on local storage. Right now, you can’t do this, so if you want to omit files from iCloud Drive, you must put them in other folders on your Mac. However, Sierra makes allowances for when you have lots of free space in iCloud Drive but little on your Mac; it locally stores files it thinks you’ll need (those you’ve used recently) and keeps others online; they stay where you left them in Finder, with a cloud icon, and can simply be downloaded on demand.
You can put Desktop and Documents online, but it’s a case of both or neither. Consider making folders to explicitly store some items offline
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Master iCloud Drive | essentials HOW TO | Start using iCLOUD
1 Set things up
2 Access your files
3 Use multiple Macs
4 Use an older Mac
5 Use iCloud Drive on iOS
6 Find files online
During Sierra’s install process, you’ll be asked whether to store your Desktop and Documents folders in iCloud Drive. If you rejected the idea then, you can enable this behaviour in iCloud’s prefs pane: click Options next to iCloud Drive and check Desktop & Documents Folders.
If you activate syncing of Desktop and Documents on more than one Mac, their contents and the changes made to them are synced to those Macs if they’re online. If a Mac joins in later, its Desktop/Documents go in a folder named after the Mac; things aren’t merged for you.
In iOS’s iCloud Drive app, you can access Desktop and Documents folders synced from Sierra. Tap a folder to open it, then tap a file to download and view it (if its type is supported). Alternatively, tap the Share icon to send the item to another app for viewing or editing.
Files awaiting upload or in the process of uploading show a progress indicator. Once done, there’s no real evidence anything’s changed with your Desktop and Documents folders compared to El Capitan, other than them being under iCloud in Finder’s sidebar.
Although pre-Sierra Macs can’t sync Desktop and Documents to iCloud Drive, they can still access those synced from Sierra. In Finder, pick Go > iCloud Drive. Those folders are at the top level. Items dragged from iCloud Drive to a pre-Sierra Mac are moved.
When you’re using a non-Apple device, you can get at your synced docs: sign in using your Apple ID at icloud.com and click iCloud Drive. Your folders will (sometimes slowly) load. This works in Chrome on Android by checking ‘Request Desktop site’ in the menu.
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Core APPS | Mail
Make the most of Mail Sierra adds more refinement to Apple’s excellent email app SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes
YOU’ll NEED
macOS Sierra an email account
Mail is the standard app you use for getting your email on a Mac. It’s been around since the start of OS X (now macOS) but has been through many changes. In an age where webmail is king it might seem old fashioned to use a dedicated email program instead of your browser to get your mail, but Apple’s app has several advantages, which we’ll outline here. At first glance Mail hasn’t changed much in Sierra, compared to the previous Yosemite and El Capitan versions, but you now have the ability to selectively sift through your emails using Filters, just as you can in iOS 10. Mail also benefits from the new Optimize Storage feature in Sierra to free up space on your Mac. As with previous versions Mail can still automatically identify event details, show you addresses and spot updated contact information. You can also use natural language searching, so for example if you search for “emails from Susan on Friday” Mail will understand you. If you have a trackpad you can use iOS-style swiping to trash mails or mark them unread, and in another iOS-inspired move you can work in full-screen mode with your email
macOS Sierra’s Mail should be your go-to app for getting email on your Mac
You now have the ability to selectively sift through your emails using Filters
hiding itself when you want to see or copy from another message. If you’ve got multiple messages open in full-screen mode they’ll appear in Safari-like tabs. Over the next four pages we’ll explore Mail’s many powers and show you how to make the most of them.
HOW TO | set up email in sierra Drop it! Mail Drop means you don’t need to worry about sending big files: if they’re too big for the recipient’s inbox, Mail will automatically send them an iCloud download link instead.
1 A fresh start
If you’re upgrading from Mac OS X, Mail should import everything you need: you’ll get all your messages and settings carried across. With a new Mac or a fresh macOS install, you’ll need to start from scratch. Choose one of the options from System Preferences’ Internet Accounts pane.
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2 Enter your password
As you might expect, in order to receive your mail, the Mail app needs to know your email address and password. If you’re using iCloud you’ll be asked for your iCloud ID and password. Other account types, Gmail for example, will ask you for similar details.
Mail | Core APPS
Shrink it!
3 Prove it’s you
iCloud, Gmail and other services offer two-factor verification, so when somebody tries to connect an app – as we’re doing here – they need to prove they’re really you by entering a code sent to one of your registered devices. Without the correct verification code, the installation will fail.
4 Watch it arrive
If you’ve entered the correct information and code (if applicable), you should now see your emails begin to appear. If you have a busy email account, this could take some time. You don’t have to wait for the messages to finish downloading: you can use Mail right now.
Digital photos can be enormous. If you don’t need to send fullresolution originals, attach your files then use the dropdown arrow at the right of your email to select a smaller image size.
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5 See your labels
By default Mail shows you the inbox, but if you organise your email by folders (or in Gmail’s case, labels) then clicking on the Mailboxes button at the top left shows your email folders. You can create your own folders and subfolders by ≈-clicking and choosing New Mailbox.
7 Sort with swipes
If your Mac has a trackpad you can quickly filter email just like you do in iOS – with swiping. Swipe left on a message to trash it, or swipe right to toggle the ‘read’ filter to mark a message read or unread. No trackpad? No problem: use ç + ß + U to mark and ∂ to trash.
6 Use Mail Filters
You can now make emails easier to find using Filters, such as ‘Only Mail with Attachments’ or ‘Only from VIP’. To use Mail Filters head to View > Enable Message Filter (ç + l) or use the Filter icon above the central message pane, then select the blue text to change the Filter settings.
8 Anoint a VIP
Like iOS, Mail has a special VIPs mailbox that only includes messages from your most important contacts, and you can get macOS to notify you of those messages and no others. Making a new VIP couldn’t be simpler: click on the person’s name and choose Add to VIPs.
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol Enables you to access email that’s stored on a remote server, such as iCloud or Gmail. The older POP3 standard usually deleted messages from the server when you downloaded them to your computer. BCC: Blind Carbon Copy A way of copying an email to someone without letting them see who else you’re sending it to.
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core APPS | iCloud Drive
Using iCloud Drive in Sierra Keep your files in sync between your Macs and iOS devices For a while Apple pushed back against old school file systems. On iOS, documents only lived ‘inside’ apps. With iCloud, cross-device syncing worked well when using the same app on iPad, iPhone and Mac. However, when using multiple apps, you had to copy documents between them; this often resulted in many part-finished files strewn across devices. With iCloud Drive, Apple has added a more typical file system to the core iOS experience, and made it accessible on Macs and iOS devices. You can delve into app-specific folders, but also add folders of your own, just like in Finder on a Mac. Now, in macOS Sierra, Apple is making a particularly audacious move regarding iCloud Drive, enabling you to keep your Mac’s Desktop and Documents folders on iCloud Drive. The option to do this is offered when you first set up Sierra, but you can turn it on later in System Preferences’ iCloud pane. With this feature active, Desktop and Documents appear in the iCloud section of Finder’s sidebar. And that means documents stored in those places are available everywhere On an iOS device, you can open iCloud Drive. On Macs using the same Apple ID and with the same settings, your documents will sync in the background. On a Mac running an older version of macOS, you’ll find your files in the Desktop and Documents folders within iCloud Drive. Or you can access them in the iCloud Drive web app at iCloud.com. Regarding the specific folders that sync, Apple reasons they’re the most common places for saving files; also, images and other media are already catered for by existing iCloud services. There are, however, some snags to be mindful of before jumping in. First, there’s no granularity whatsoever at this time. The feature is either on or off. Secondly, if you work with massive media files, be wary of slowing your internet connection as your devices try to sync them with iCloud Drive. Finally, whatever you store in iCloud Drive eats into your iCloud storage plan. By default, Apple gives you just 5GB for free. That said, the convenience of more easily accessing files will, for many, be worth a few quid each month.
1 Enable iCloud Drive Sign in to your iCloud account in System Preferences. iCloud Drive is listed at the top of the list of iCloud features. Tick the adjacent box. If you used its predecessor, Documents in the Cloud, to store things, you’ll be asked whether to upgrade it to Drive. Be aware that iCloud Drive only works with devices running iOS 8 or later, or OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later.
2 Control your storage With iCloud Drive turned on, click its Options button to see a list of apps that it works with. Your iCloud account provides 5GB of space for free, but as well as storage for these apps, it’s also used for iOS device backups and your email accounts. Unticking a box here removes any folder an app has created at the top of iCloud Drive, but luckily it doesn’t prevent you from manually saving to it.
iCloud Drive in sync Syncing documents across iCloud Drive is undeniably easy – but you do need to be a little careful when saving your documents. The contents of your iCloud Drive are automatically synchronised between all of your devices, but you need to make sure that the device from which you make changes to a file is online so that those changes propagate to the other devices. Otherwise, your changes won’t appear on your other devices until you have a web connection. Bear this in mind when you’re editing documents on the move.
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3 Tidy up storage
Click Manage at the bottom right of iCloud’s preferences to see what’s using your iCloud storage. Selecting an app reveals how much space its documents and data take up in iCloud, and a button to delete it all. This is fine for, say, a game you’ll never play again, but risky with documents you’ve created. It’s better to search iCloud Drive using the Finder.
iCloud Drive | core APPS
6 Patience pays off
When you save a new or modified file, it takes a moment to upload to iCloud Drive. Browse to its location in Finder and you will see an up arrow along with a data transfer indicator below its icon while it syncs. If you’ll next work on this file on a different device, ensure this is gone before shutting down.
iCloud Drive works much like a removable drive, but files sync to it automatically and then to all your compatible Macs and iOS devices
7 Search for files
Storing things in any way you want can make them hard to find later – it’s always best to set up a folder structure for your documents as outlined in tip 5. However, if you’ve already saved files across iCloud Drive and are unsure where they are, it’s not a problem. Go to iCloud Drive in Finder and type in the search bar (just as you would when searching for files locally on your Mac). In the bar’s suggestions list, pick an attribute (in our case, a tag). Finder will show matches regardless of location and kind. Finally, set the options bar to look only in Drive.
Arrange files by their tags
4 Save a document
If ‘Where’ is currently set to a local folder, you’ll see two iCloud Library items at the top of the dropdown menu that appears: one that saves to a folder named after the app you’re using (such as Keynote or Pages), and one labelled iCloud Drive under Favourites, which allows you to simply dump the file loose at the top of your iCloud Drive folder.
wherever, and 5 Save whenever, you want Click the triangle next to the filename to expand the dialog box to a view similar to a Finder window. Now you can easily browse all of iCloud Drive’s contents and save the file wherever you like, just as on an external drive directly attached to your Mac. Click New Folder to create whatever folder structure suits your workflow.
After you’ve searched upon tags (see tip 4) click the Item Arrangement button in the dialog’s toolbar and pick Tags. This changes the presentation of results so that matching files are visually broken up into groups by tag, which can help you to quickly sift through a large list of matching files.
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photos | Photos for macOS
Manage your photos in Sierra Learn how to manage your photo library with Apple’s Photos app SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes
YOU’ll NEED macOS Sierra
Photography is such a popular activity it’s no wonder that some of Sierra’s biggest changes can be found in the Photos app. One of the most prominent new features is Memories, which live in an eponymous tab in the app’s toolbar. Over time, the app picks out collections of pictures it thinks you might want to see again, typically comprised of pictures taken on or around the same date, or around a particular location. You can scroll through this automatically generated timeline to look back at all the memories the app has picked out. However, that’ll only get more unwieldy as the timeline gets longer, so the app enables you to add a memory to a collection of your favourites, which are stored in a folder in the Albums tab. The app lets you delete a memory if you disagree
that it’s something you’ll want to look at often. Note this only deletes the memory; its contents remain in your photo library. A memory can be played as a slideshow by opening it and then clicking the toolbar’s Play button. To share it with others, click the adjacent + button, choose Slideshow, make a few decisions, and the slideshow is saved to the Projects tab. Select it there, then choose File > Export > Export Slideshow. Photos’ other big new feature is automatic analysis of your photos. This enables you to not only browse images by the people they contain, but specific objects and scenes as well. Until your entire library has been scanned, the People album will show a count of how many photos have been scanned and how many remain. Analysis takes place when your Mac is connected to mains power and Photos isn’t open.
QUICK LOOK | discover the power of memories Remember these?
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This is a a great way to rediscover other memories in your photo collection. These are automatically chosen by Photos based on date, location, tags, etc. as well as on the content of the images themselves. Clever! 3
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Photos for macOS | photos HOW TO | organise your photos
1 Revisit old memories
2 A memory at a glance 3 See them on a map
4 Savour the moment
5 Play as a slideshow
Photos adds images to the Memories tab over time, so keep returning to that tab to see which ones it has picked out for you. As time goes by, you will see it fill up with large thumbnails, each with their relevant date emblazoned across their middle.
To add a memory to your favourites in the Albums tab, ≈-click it in the timeline and choose Add to Favorite Memories – or click that at the bottom of its overview. Both places also offer an option to delete the memory – handy if you no longer wish to view it.
6 Browse by person
Under Albums, open the People album to see the faces that the app has detected. Put the pointer over one, click Add Name and type in their details. Click Add People to see more; if several images show the same person, hold ç, click them, then Merge & Add.
Double-click a memory to open it, then scroll down to see the pictures that Photos has decided belong together, people it has identified in them and a map showing where the photos were taken, along with any related memories it thinks you might be interested in.
Memories aren’t just about gathering pictures in album-like groups. At one’s overview, click the toolbar’s Play button, choose a theme – this includes a preset score, which you can swap for a track from iTunes. Click Play Slideshow, then sit back and enjoy the results!
7 Search by type
Sierra’s version of Photos cleverly recognises thousand of types of object and scene. In the search bar, enter text such as ‘beach’, ‘tree’ or ‘no people’. The search engine is rather basic; you can’t enter two discrete terms – ‘beach’ and ‘no people’ together, for example.
If photos in a memory have location data attached, you’ll be able to see them plotted on a map. Double-click the map for a closer look, or click Show Nearby Photos to have the app reveal more images from close by but perhaps not in this particular memory.
related images To use a memory as the basis for a calendar, book, card, slideshow or some other project, open its overview, click + in the toolbar and then choose one.
8 Inspect search results
Among the list of search results will be matching items, including slight variations on the term you entered (such as ‘palm tree’), and counts of matches in each category. Select one of the search results to see all of the related photos. You can save search results too.
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itunes & Apple Music | Apple Music
Complete guide to
Apple Music
Apple’s music streaming service adds exciting features to iTunes. Here’s how to make the most of them… your tastes. Apple Music tries to do this pple Music is a VISUAL GUIDE | APPLE MUSIC
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streaming service that, for a monthly fee comparable to similar services such as Spotify, gives you access to millions of songs by artists big and small. For £9.99 a month (£4.99 for degree students), or £14.99 to enable five other family members to use it too, you can explore hundreds of years of musical heritage and hear brand-new releases on your iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Mac, Windows PC, Apple Watch and Android devices. Here we’re looking at how to use the service in iTunes on your Mac, but many of our tips also work in the Music app on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. With iCloud Music Library switched on in iTunes’ preferences, whatever you add
intelligently, based on some simple guidance from you when setting it up, explicit feedback you give it by marking things as ‘loved’ or disliked, as well as your listening habits. Apple Music’s suggestions of things to listen to also appear on on all your devices. The service also connects you to your favourite artists much like you might follow them on social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. This doesn’t require a subscription, except to add audio from their posts to your library. You might already follow your favourite artists on other networks, and there are bound to be exceptions who don’t post to Apple Music, but many big names in the worlds of rock, pop, hip hop and other mainstream genres do. You might even find Apple Music a
The Apple Music service is about more than just giving you a massive library of music to explore at your own leisure from Apple Music’s library to your own collection using iTunes on your Mac will also become available on your other devices, and vice versa. The Apple Music service is about more than just giving you a massive library of music to explore at your own leisure. It also includes the Beats 1 internet radio station, genre-based radio stations, and personalised stations that you create by selecting a song or artist that fits your mood. Just as important, there’s a strong focus on discovering new albums and artists to listen to – both new releases and back catalogue material that suits
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useful way to keep artists’ musings separate from your actual friends. One thing that might strike you as odd about Apple Music is that it’s so separated out from the iTunes Store. You’ll need to type into a search bar to reach most of what’s in its library, yet you can add things from there to your personal collection, where you can rate tracks, add them to playlists, and even download them to play offline, just like tracks you’ve bought from the store. Take note of the heart icon you see in iTunes, as it’s crucial to getting the most out of Apple Music when it comes to it giving you curated recommendations.
Start by selecting Music from the pop-up menu near the top-left corner of iTunes 1
Next, explore the For You, Browse and Radio pages. Click one of these in the top centre of the navigation bar. To the right of its headline on the page that appears are subcategories: For You is divided into personal recommendations and Connect, Radio has Beats 1 and other stations, and Browse contains new releases and curated playlists 2
When you click the search box, you’ll see options to search either your library or Apple Music’s massive online collection. Click the latter, then type and press ® to find many more things you can play as much as you want 3
When you’ve found an album or track in Apple’s library that you want to hear, move the pointer over it and click the play button that appears on it 4
Put the pointer over a track and click the More Options icon (…) that appears. Wherever you see this button, it reveals things you can do with that item, whether it’s a track, an album or a playlist 5
When you add tracks to your iCloud Music Library on one of your devices (see page 92), you may need to download them manually in iTunes by clicking the cloud icon 6
As you add things from Apple Music to your personal library, the Recently Added item becomes very useful as it saves you scrolling to or searching for things you likely want to hear a lot right now 7
The most important thing in the More Options menu when looking at an Apple Music item is Add to Library. The item then appears on all of your devices 8
From an album or track’s More Options icon, choose Love or Dislike to give feedback to Apple Music and guide suggestions it gives in the For You page 9
The More Options button is also available for the track that’s currently playing when you put the pointer over that area 10
Stations are a good way to hear new things suited to your mood. Click the More Options icon next to a track, album or artist name and choose Start Station 11
Even with an Apple Music sub, you might want to buy music to keep or transfer to another device that plays AAC files. Click a More Options icon and choose Go To > Show in iTunes Store. Immediately above that, the Share Song or Share Album item enables you to post a link to the item to social networks, or privately by other methods such as email and iMessage 12
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next steps | Keynote for macOS
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Make more of Keynote Discover the part of Apple’s word processor designed for desktop publishing SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes
YOU’ll NEED
Keynote 6 or later
Keynote for Mac (and iOS) is a great tool for producing presentations and is a worthy alternative to rival programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint. In many ways, it is actually superior; clever, intuitive and full of nifty tricks. In fact, it’s too good to be used only for formal business meetings. Here, we’ll explore the app’s animation tools, which you can use for infographics and similar projects to get across your message. The trick to not making something too cheesy and distracting is to ignore practically all of the options available in Keynote’s list of animations. If you use ‘Fireworks’ or ‘Comet’ more than once in your life it’ll probably be too often! We’ll look at three different effects: drawing lines, creating magical charts that animate the display of data, and the Magic Move transition, Keynote’s pièce de résistance.
Beyond build effects Magic Move is particularly well named. Unlike the other effects, which animate objects on a single slide, Magic Move
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compares attributes of those that exist in two adjacent ones – their size, colour or position, say – and, over the transition’s duration, morphs each from its first state to its second. By setting strategic effects to play automatically when a slide or object is shown, you can build up an amazing sequence of animated objects and layouts. The walkthrough on the opposite page details how to set objects to animate. You’ll also want to play around with the duration of each build effect and transition between slides – too long and you’ll risk boring your audience to tears; too short and they will miss them! You can use the Preview buttons found in the Animate inspector and the Build Order window to test effects in isolation, or select a starting slide on the left and click Play in the toolbar. When you’ve nailed the orders and timings in your presentation, pick File > Export To > QuickTime. If any part of your ‘presentation’ would require a click to advance, the export dialog lets you set how long the rolling animation will hold on those states before it advances. Also note its Format option, which determines the exported video’s resolution; before you build any slides, open the Document inspector and check the slide size is appropriately set for where the video will be presented.
Keynote for macOS | next steps HOW TO | USE KEYNOTE’s animation tools
1 Draw a sketchy line
2 Animate the line
3 Set the build order
4 Dynamic data
5 Animate together
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Animating lines can be a very effective way of putting life into your presentation. Use the Shape button in the toolbar to create a line, select the line, then open the Format inspector’s Style pane to give the line arrowheads and a nifty hand-drawn look.
Interactive charts bring data in your presentation to life. Click the toolbar’s Chart button, choose Interactive, and pick column, bar, scatter or bubble. Each comes with sample data; select the chart on the slide, then click Edit Chart Data to provide your own.
Open the Animate inspector from the toolbar, go to its Build In pane, then click the Add an Effect button. Select Line Draw from the list and tweak its settings. Feel free to play with the animation timings, but a duration of one second is fine. Add a few more lines like this.
The Animate Inspector’s Build Order tool works with interactive charts too. Why not try animating a chart alongside other objects? With a little thought and some practise you can produce effective combinations of movement that will put pizzazz into your infographics.
6 Magic Move keyframing 7 Magical text effects Now it’s time to copy and paste objects from one slide to the next, and then change their looks and position – or you can just duplicate the first and change the copy. Select the first slide, open the Animate inspector and set Magic Move as the slide’s transition.
If there is a text box present on both slides, the options to match by word or by character can fade or slide things around. You can use the second option to reveal the solution to an anagram, say. Try them out to get a feel for their behaviours.
Select Build Order to show all of the objects on the slide that have animations applied. Choose the first line and then set it to draw automatically (After Transition). You can now select the other lines and set them to build with the first one.
Change a chart’s Delivery setting in the Build In pane. You can choose to build all sets continuously (one after the other), or specific sets from the data you have added. Use the latter to focus on a particular set, pausing the animation’s progress till a later slide.
8 Effects sequence
In the Animate inspector pane, set the slides to start automatically. Build effects on the first one will play, then the Magic Move transition, then any build effects on the second slide – tailor their durations, as most are a little long by default. Your presentation is done.
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