Keynote User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
- What’s new in Keynote 14.1
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- Intro to Keynote
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create a presentation
- Choose how to navigate your presentation
- Open a presentation
- Save and name a presentation
- Find a presentation
- Print a presentation
- Customize the toolbar
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Basic touchscreen gestures
- Use Apple Pencil with Keynote
- Create a presentation using VoiceOver
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- Send a presentation
- Intro to collaboration
- Invite others to collaborate
- Collaborate on a shared presentation
- See the latest activity in a shared presentation
- Change a shared presentation’s settings
- Stop sharing a presentation
- Shared folders and collaboration
- Use Box to collaborate
- Create an animated GIF
- Post your presentation in a blog
- Copyright
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Highlight cells conditionally in Keynote on iPad
You can have Keynote change the appearance of a cell or its text when the value in the cell meets certain conditions. For example, you can make cells turn red if they contain a negative number. To change the look of a cell based on its cell value, create a conditional highlighting rule.
Add a highlighting rule
Tap
, tap Cell, then tap Add Conditional Highlighting.
Tap a type of rule (for example, if your cell value will be a number, tap Numbers), then tap a rule.
Enter values for the rule.
For example, if you selected the rule “date is after,” enter a date that the date in the cell must come after.
Tap a text style, such as bold or italic, or a cell fill, such as red or green.
You can choose Custom Style to choose your own font color, font style, and cell fill.
Tap Done.
Note: If a cell matches multiple rules, its look changes according to the first rule in the list. To reorder rules, tap Edit, then drag next to the rule name. Tap Done.
Repeat a highlighting rule
After you add a conditional highlighting rule to a cell, you can apply that rule to other cells, too.
Select the cell with the rule you want to repeat and the cells you want to add the rule to.
Tap
, then tap Cell.
Below Conditional Highlighting, tap Combine Rules.
Delete a highlighting rule
Select the cells with the rules you want to delete.
Tap
, then tap Cell.
Below Conditional Highlighting, swipe left on the rule you want to delete, then tap Delete.