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50 Chapter 3 Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media

Grouping and Locking Objects

You can group objects together so that they can be moved, copied, and oriented as a

single object. Lock objects to the canvas to avoid inadvertently moving them as you

work.

Note: After you group objects, you can’t edit the individual objects that compose the

group unless you ungroup them. To edit locked objects, unlock them first.

To group objects:

1 Hold down the Command (or Shift) key as you select the objects you want to group

on the slide canvas.

2 Choose Arrange > Group (or click Group in the toolbar).

To ungroup a grouped object:

m Select the object and choose Arrange > Ungroup (or click Ungroup in the toolbar).

Note: If you group an object that has a build effect assigned to it, the effect is

removed. Ungrouping a grouped object assigned a build removes the build effect.

To lock objects to the slide canvas:

1 Hold down the Command (or Shift) key as you select the objects you want to lock to

the slide canvas.

2 Choose Arrange > Lock.

To unlock an object:

m Select the object and choose Arrange > Unlock.

Note: If you often lock or unlock objects, you can add Lock and Unlock buttons to the

toolbar by choosing View > Customize Toolbar.

Working With Photo Cutouts (Alpha-Channel Graphics)

Keynote themes provide photo “cutouts” in which you can place your own images.

The result can look, for example, as if your image is in a picture frame. This effect is

created by using a graphic (the picture frame part) that contains a transparent area

where your image shows through. The transparent area is created using an alpha

channel (a way of defining transparency); an alpha-channel graphic is an image that

contains a transparent area.

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