Learn Keynote Fast

Create Keynote presentations FAST. No fluff, no padding. Just what you need to know to learn as fast as possible.

4.65 (267 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Apple

What you will learn

Create great looking Keynote slides

Format text and graphics

Add audio and video files

Add transitions and animations

Create Shapes, Tables and Charts

Export the presentation in multiple formats

Master presentation best practices

Why take this course?

Learn Keynote FAST

Do you want to learn how to make great presentations using Keynote but dread the thought of going through a 4 hour course that goes over every button and menu item in excruciating detail?

***Newly Updated in 2020!***

If so, this course is for you.

In this course you'll learn all of the basics required to make great Keynote slides, including:

slide creation
theme selection
formatting text and images
transitions and animations
adding video and audio
recording slideshows
tables and charts
exporting presentations in multiple formats

I've spent 10 years as a professional trainer and I know the teaching methods that work. The course has no fluff and no padding. It's a quick, no-nonsense approach to learning the Keynote functions you really need to make great presentations.

You'll learn one simple concept at a time in bite-sized chunks. That's the quickest way to learn software programs.

Here's a comment from one of the students in my other Udemy courses:

Really great way to get started. I really love the short and sweet sections of this course. The author has a really great voice to listen to, that combined with the short to the point lectures really made it a breeze for me to finish it really fast.

I'll also stay with you every step of the way by responding very quickly to questions asked the discussion section of the course.

Go ahead and take Learn Keynote FAST!

Content

Welcome to Learn Keynote FAST

Course Overview

Basic Concepts

Standard Versus Wide

Light Versus Dark

Keep Your Slides Simple

Basic Slide Creation

Start and Name a New Presentation

Changing Your Theme

Create a Simple Presentation in 5 Minutes

Editing a Master Slide

Exercise #1

Formating Text and Images

Basic Text Formatting

Moving and Aligning Text and Images

Adding Borders, Shadows and Reflections to Text

Adjusting Images

Arranging Text and Images

Exercise #2

Shapes, Tables and Charts

Shapes

Tables

Charts: Part 1

Charts: Part 2

Exercise #3

Multimedia

Hyperlinks

Adding Video Clips to a Slide

Adding Audio to a Slide

Adding an Audio Soundtrack

Exercise #4

Animations (Transitions and Builds)

Slide Transitions

Grouping

Build Animations

Action Animations

Exercise #5

Page Numbers, Comments and Presenter Notes

Adding Page Numbers

Comments

Presenter Notes

Exercise #6

Recording and Exporting Your Finished Presentation

Setting Up Your Presentation to Automatically Play

Recording a Presentation With a Voiceover

exporting a presentation

Exercise #7

Final Thoughts

Best Practices

Course Wrap Up

Screenshots

Reviews

Marc

September 24, 2023

Teaches the basics really well without going to in depth. Gives you the oppurtunuity to learn how to create good looking presentations without getting too heavily involved with all the available options.

Caryn

August 6, 2023

short lessons were a good idea, but sometimes they went a little fast when clicking around on the computer. the icons were small and fuzzy so it was hard to find them sometimes on my own device, which was an iPad. it would be great if you could include how to do these things on an iPad as well.

Jane

September 27, 2022

Love that Mr. Kim is going step by step - I am one of those students who has never done a Keynote/PowerPoint presentation before>

Valentina

September 9, 2022

Achei ele muito fácil, muito básico, não aprendi nada que não sabia. É um curso para leigos que não sabem mexer no computador, porque o keynote é bastante intuitivo, então imaginei que ensinasse atalhos, macetes e coisas mais complexas.

Charles

September 5, 2022

What a fantastic course! I needed a fast and simple way of learning the basics of Keynote and this course fit the bill perfectly! Because each lesson is only a few minutes long, I was able to fit them easily into my busy schedule. About halfway through the course, I was already able to create presentations for online meetings with my client. I also liked how the instructor talked in easy-to-follow way, without any superfluous explanations. I really recommend this course for anyone needing to know the basics of Keynote in a short amount of time.

Getúlio

August 28, 2021

Curso bem básico sobre o tema. As aulas são curtas, então você acaba rapidamente o curso, mas acho que poderia ser avisado que não é a versão atual do keynote e acho que poderia ter algumas coisas um pouco mais avançadas, como, por exemplo, algumas ideias de design. Não quis baixar a nota, pois acredito que seja um curso bem útil pra quem está começando.

Alex

June 17, 2021

It does what it says, no extras, no fluff, just fast tutorial on the subject. I did wish for a little more coverage… I left me wanting more, and feeling rather "unlearned."

James

August 20, 2016

Outstanding use of 80/20 rule. What you need to know to use all major keynote functions and no fluff! Short videos and very quick to get through. I'm time poor (family, run a company etc.) and I've just started having to do a lot of presentations and this course was perfect for hitting the ground running. I suggest play the course on one device and follow along on your laptop. Very useful explanations on when to use Standard and Wide view. Cannot recommend highly enough.

Robert

July 26, 2016

The course accomplished what it promised. It was clear, concise, and delivered fairly effectively. I would take another course from this instructor.

Marcus

November 15, 2015

This was a well-organised course and did what it said on the tin. It was not full of waffle and got straight to the important points about utilising the solution. Great job.

Rikki

November 6, 2015

I had hoped for a little more sophisticated ideas on using animations and builds - The course is an excellent 101 - I have just moved to Mac from Windows so it was helpful to become familiar with the Keynote functions. This course does not touch on functions like Magic Move and is very light using Keynote for slide based video courses - A section on how this course was made would be very useful for example

Darryl

October 21, 2015

Laurence gives you the tools you need to start creating yourself a nice looking Keynote presentation. He is clear and detailed with his explanations. Most people need to setup a functional presentation and don't need all the super advanced tidbits. I'll be using these skills in my online business and I've been given everything I need to get the job done.

Serge

October 2, 2015

Laurence Kim's lecture about Keynote is concise, pragmatic, to-the-point and even contains a bit of essential advice on how to avoid overusing special effects in presentations.

Johan

September 13, 2015

I like the format "Learn by doing" as he use. It´s just not the most used features Laurence go through but also why you might use it. The last chapter he gives a nice summary and he let us know about a cool site for further presentation skills. Hope he will make more courses like this!

Ivaylo

September 5, 2015

If You do not have idea how to work with Keynote and want understand really fast that is your course. Laurence teach to fundamental principles and possibilities of the app with very good diction actually.

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