How to Make Text Spin in Apple Keynote '09

There are all sorts of effects you can add to your Apple Keynote Presentation to spice it up a bit. Here are the steps to making your text spin.

Things You'll Need

• Apple Macintosh Computer running Mac OS 10.5+
• iWork '09

Instructions

1. 

   Launch Keynote '09 by clicking on its icon in your Dock or the Applications folder.

2. 

   Create a new presentation by selecting a theme. Let's choose "Headlines" for this example. Click "Choose" when you've made your selection.

3. 

   Double-click inside the title field (where it says "Double-click to edit") and replace the text with your own. Here we'll use "101 Ways to Cook an Egg."

4. 

   Replace the subtitle text with whatever you'd like or leave it as it is. For this article let's type in "Yummy Everyday Recipes" just for fun.

5. 

   Open up the "Build" inspector by clicking on the button third from the left in the Inspector window's top menu. This window gives you control over how to build up your slide (or build out your slide) and shows you a preview of what your actions and effects will look like.

6. Select the title text "101 Ways to Cook an Egg." You just need to click once on the area where the text.

7. 

   Click the "Action" button in the Inspector window.

8. 

   Select the effect you want to apply to the title text by clicking on the drop-down menu under "Effects" and selecting the effect. We'll do "Rotate" for this example to make our text spin.

9. 

   Decide whether you want the text to spin clockwise or counter-clockwise and set your preference with the "Direction" drop-down box.

10. 

    Set the "Rotate" option to 360 degrees to rotate the text all the way around. The default is 180 and your text will end up upside-down.

11. 

    Choose how smooth you want the acceleration of the spin by selecting an option under the "Acceleration" drop-down box. The "Ease In & Ease Out" option gives you the smoothest spin. Try out the other options to see how they look.

12. 

    Set the duration of the spin in the "Duration" field by increasing or decreasing the time (in seconds).

13. 

    Preview your effect by clicking on the "Play" button at the top of the screen.