In the new Keynote, version 7.1, there's a handy new feature that's especially useful
if you've got very complex slides with lots of stuff on them.
So, for instance here I've got a slide that's got a bunch of different things on it and
you know if you've used Keynote a lot it can get even more complex than that.
You can have things behind other things and all.
So this new feature, you can activate by going to View, and then Show Object List, puts another
sidebar here on the left that gives you a list of all the items on the slide.
You can select them by simply selecting the item in the list.
You see it changes the selection that's there.
You can hold the Command key down and Select to select multiple items.
You can do things like select an item here and then delete.
I'll undo that.
You also have a little lock next to it so you can easily lock and unlock items.
That was something that was possible before but it was a little difficult to use.
Now it's very easy to use with this Object List.
The Object List stays there even when you switch slides.
So you can see here I've got it and it just stays there.
It's a very useful feature if you're doing lots of Keynote presentations you're going
to love being able to use this.
You can also drag and drop to move things over other things.
So I can move like this behind.
You can Control click on things to get all the same options you get when you Control
click on it in here.
It's a great feature to use.
You can use it, of course, with all your existing presentations and use it as you create new
ones as well.
A few other advanced items here.
One is there are two different ways to select something here.
If I click once you can see it's kind of a light highlight there.
If I double click then it's a dark highlight there.
Now you've got to be careful when you double click to click on the icon there because if
I simply double click on the name then I get to rename the item.
Which can be very useful because this one is going to be automatically named by the
file name of this image.
This one will be automatically named by the text in there.
But I can just call it something else to make it a little easier.
Now also when you're in this mode here while I've got the darker highlights I can use the
arrow keys to move up and down on the list which is very useful.
Also when you group items together, so let me select these two and I can select Arrange
Group, it puts them together here with a little reveal triangle underneath it.
You can also do that inside of here.
So I can select two using Command click, Control click on them and Group, and it will put these
two together in there.
You're supposed to be able to drag items in and out of here but I haven't seen how you
can do that.
It doesn't seem to work perhaps the way I have these images arranged or put on here
is preventing that.
You can also filter these items.
Say you have a slide with a ton of different items on it.
There's a filter button here at the bottom and I could say, Only Show Me Text, or Only
Show Me Shapes.
Then you can see that one shape.
Or just Show Me the Images.
So the filtering options, let's see if I do images here, now it just filtered to only
images.
I can turn it on and off very easily.
So I can do the same thing.
Go to this slide and the image filter is still there and I can turn it on and off to easily
jump to see maybe just the images or just the text on a given slide.
Here is, perhaps, the coolest thing about the Object List is it doesn't just have to
be for one slide.
I can select this slide and I'm going to Command click Select a second slide, select as many
as you want, and you can see it says slide 2, slide 3.
The objects for each one are represented.
So I can actually select all the slides here and you can see 1, 2, 3, 4, and you can even
drag items between slides.
So I can select this image here, drag it up to put it in this slide and you can see it
moved the slides.
So that's a really easy way to actually move items from slide to slide.
You can image in a slide show having text and images and being able to swap the text
and images between the slides very easily.
Of course before you just had to do lots of copying
and pasting.