How to change color scheme of Keynote slide design/template?

Question

I just made the switch to Mac. In PowerPoint, I used to be able to select a certain slide theme or design but choose a different color of it. How can I do that with Keynote? I've been googling for hours just to do this.

Answer 1

If you want to change the appearance of all the slides:

1. While creating a new document, choose any template.
2. From the menubar, select View > Show Master Slides.
3. Select the layout you want to edit from the navigator pane on the left.
4. On the Toolbar, click on Inspector (“i” icon).
5. Choose the second tab icon (slide icon) in the Inspector window. Click on Appearance.
6. Here you can specify any background for the slide. It can be an image, a colour, a gradient or a tint.

If you just want to change the appearance of the current slide, follow steps 4 to 6.

To change the style of text for all the slides:

1. Follow steps 1 to 4.
2. Choose the capital “T” icon in the Inspector window.
3. Select the text whose colour, font, etc. you want to change.
4. In the inspector window, there are various properties like text colour, character spacing, etc. which you can change.
5. You can change the font from the toolbar.

To change the style of text for the current slide, just follow the steps without opening the master slide.