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So let's talk a little bit about slide design
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I am in Keynote, which again is a program for a Mac or a PC
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and I'm working on a presentation for social emotional learning. Now you'll notice that just looking at the slide, it looks okay
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but one of the things that I notice is that my white text
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on kind of a lighter background just sort of looks a little flat
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It doesn't really stand out, and I'd like that text to stand out a little bit more
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So I'm going to show you two different ways that you can do that that will take about two seconds. It's really easy
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So what you can do is just double click on your text like this
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and it brings up our inspector right over here to the right
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We're going to choose the submenu that says text, and then right over here you'll notice this gear
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It will show you advanced options for your text. So the first thing that you can do from this menu
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is you can drop a shadow. So I'm going to check shadow
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Okay, and now you'll notice that when I do this, just bring this back again, here's how it looks without the shadow
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Here's how it looks with the shadow. You can see it kind of stands out a little bit more
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And what you can do once you have that option clicked is you can kind of play around with the direction of the shadow
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so you get it the way that you want. There's also some different ways that you can play
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with some of the different options for your shadow to make your text stand out a little bit more
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So let me turn that off again, and let me turn it on. I didn't keep the settings that I just had a second ago
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but you can see you can play around with it, and it will make your text stand out a little bit better
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This is really helpful if you have light text on a light background
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Okay, so let me take my subtitle right underneath here. I'm going to do the same thing
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I'm going to click on that, move over to text, choose our advanced option, and rather than doing shadow
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I'm going to choose this first option, outline. Okay, and there we go
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You'll notice that it will show an outline around each of my letters
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Now, this tends to work a lot better for thicker fonts. If you look at this font right up here
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you can see that the letters are much more thick, which means there's more space for that outline
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This is sort of a thin text, which you probably see in the body of a document, that kind of thing
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so there's not as much space for an outline, so it looks a little bit thin
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But if I go back to my advanced options, you can, again, play around with this
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You can make it kind of a thick outline like that, or you can sort of just play around with some of those settings
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to adjust it the way that you want it to look. Okay, so I'm going to turn that off
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just to show you what it looks like with the outline and without the outline
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Let's go back here to our title, advanced options again. I'm going to turn off our shadow
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I just want to show you a little bit how the outline works. So you can see I just have the same outline on the title
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as I had in that subtitle below, but you'll notice that it looks a little bit different
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Because the text is thicker, it supports the outline a lot better
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So maybe I want to keep the outline on here, and I can even change the color if I would like
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And for this thinner font, I'm just going to go up and choose my advanced options
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I'll drop the shadow maybe for this thinner font, and again, this is something that I would have to go through
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and play around and get this right. So let's take a look at my before
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Here's how my slide looks without the shadow or the outline. And then here's my after
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You'll notice that there's the shadow and there is the outline. So again, those are two advanced text options
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If you have some text on the slide that doesn't seem to stand out very much
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you may try either dropping a shadow or adding an outline. ♪♪♪�
