Beyond Bullet Points & Keynote

Hi folks,
I've recently fallen for BBP by Cliff Atkinson in a big way. One of the suggestions (well, BBP 'laws') is to storyboard your presentation in the Slide Sorter view - that's the PowerPoint version of Keynote's Light Table. In PowerPoint you can edit your slides in this view, in Keynote you don't seem to be able to do this.
I can achieve a similar effect with the Outline view - but it doesn't have the same visual impact for the creator. Does anyone know if there is a way to edit in Light Table view? Am I missing something?
Cheers

Thanks for the response, I'll just have to get more creative with the Outline view. That'll be fine.
Cheers

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VERY frustrating. When I "save" it, I expect Keynote to "save" what I have done....I have looked for any odd "auto change" styling for fonts, but don't see it.
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Evan

What font are you using in the original Keynote?
You should verify the Powerpoint file you exported is correct by opening in Powerpoint, Open Office or use the free online file viewer here: http://www.docs.com/
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List's bullet points displyaing beyond table cell

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Reverse Entry of Bullet Points

Hi,
Bit of context.... Every week I host a pub quiz which has two projected elements onto screens in the bar. One is a ten-question round of pictures, the other is a leader-board where the positions of the teams get ranked.
Up to now everything has been done in Powerpoint, but because Keynote effects are that much prettier (I mean... wow!) I've decided to switch over.
Trouble is, for the leader-board I can't find a way to display the placings of the teams in reverse order - i.e. start with the team (or teams) in last place showing at the bottom of the slide and then bring in the next team (or teams) in third, second, etc above them.
It's the one thing I've found so far that's a doddle to do in Powerpoint but I can't see a way of doing it in Keynote.
My only thought is to do separate and multiple text boxes with their own builds, but that's a bit more fiddly than I'd like. (For one thing I don't know how many I'd need before the start of marking, whereas bullets auto-number.)
So... for my first post here I thought I'd ask if anyone had any brilliant ideas? Or am I cursed to use Keynote and Powerpoint at the same time?

Hi Rob,
I wouldn't use Powerpoint again... that way lies madness.
I don't think there's a way to do exactly what you're asking. I just fiddled around with the builds myself and couldn't get a numbered list to reverse-build. But there are a couple of things you could consider doing. Firstly, have you thought about making your list with the last-place team at the top of the slide and building down? I'm sure you've thought of it, but it seems a minor design change to me.
The second, more complicated thing you could do is that you could set each bullet point as its own separate text box, and then you could build them in in any order you'd like. This will require a bit of setup the first time, but I'm sure you're just using the same template and typing over the information anyway. I'd make Arrange > Align Objects my best friend if I did that.
Hope that helps!
—Hazy

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I have a slide with 4 bullet points on.
How do I progress the bullets by clicking play and having the slide automatically advance to reveal the next bullet and pause before showing the bullet after that. Like you would build in Keynote or PowerPoint
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John

Thanks for your help.
Of course I wouldn't dream of using this level of software without some training. My first port of call before I even signed up for the trial was Lynda.com. I subscribe to that site and have always been impressed with their work. I did over 5 hours with 'Adobe Captivate 8 Essential Training' and 'Captivate Projects: Mobile and Responsive Design' I then revisited them after I started the trial and have been revisiting then frequently for the past two days. Good courses I thought!
There are all sort of bugs in AC8 that are both frustrating and surprising for a mature piece of software...I guess its probably just me with unreasonably high expectations. Manually scrolling the timeline often does not give a true representation of the slides progress...reordering timeline layers often leaves the layer names in the wrong order, allocated to the wrong layer - with the need to select another slide and then select the original to correct the layer names. Layers also sometimes jump when moving them. Grouping objects is a very unpredictable operation - these are just a few of the more frequent frustrations.
The inability to on the fly test in different browsers...? :-0
No .ai or even .svg import...pretty unbelievable...astonishing even! AI is part of the Adobe Family - How wonderful would this be for Smart Shapes instead of the basic array of tools AC provides.
Symbol type libraries for commonly used items
I could go on but I don't want to bore you and in truth I expect, being such a new user, I am getting much of this wrong and missing where to control these issues.
Doing a simple PowerPoint type presentation that I can export to HTML5, with a bit of user interaction I expected to be a walk in the park for AC...but its actually a very intricate process...maybe I should go back Hype3 Pro, a good HTML5 application...but Its a much lower level of app I love to learn to use industry standard software. The must be a reason AC has such a dedicated user-base.
I am however, terrifically grateful to you for taking the me to try and help me.
I'll re-start my efforts again in the morning when my stress level have returned to something around normal!
John

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Is there a way to do a standard highlighted bullet point build-in such as:
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| Native trees in our area:
|     - Poplar
|     - Oak
|     - Maple
|
but when I play the presentation, after each of the bullet point is highlighted, the next slide is a photo of the item in question. In other words, the slides would play as such:
1:
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| Native trees in our area:
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2:
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3:
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| Native trees in our area:
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|     - Oak
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Right now I am duplicating the main text slide multiple time and adding a new bullet each time manually but I was wondering if there is a more efficient way to do that. Just like when using the Highlighted bullet Build-In feature but with a photo in between each bullet.
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Bo

However, a larger photo, can accomodate text of 8 lines with plenty space to display a full hight single photo.
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Indeed. But I need to photo to change with each bullet point.
Thats allready covered in the first post, but I made a complete set using 8 bullet points for 8 full screen pictures. The first bullet point and picture are shown with the build details.
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What you want to do is just make the edge of the text box be in the center of the slide. This will be easier if you turn on guides for the edges of objects - to go your preferences, rulers preferences, and check "show guides at object edges".
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First off, try downloading the latest Safari. I believe it's 5.1.9. While you're there download the combo updater for Slow Leopard 10.6.8 to get your system up to the final release.
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About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
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Animated QuickTime backgrounds with text bullet points over it????

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yes, you can do this in Keynote. The only issues might be that on some machines, if you are using the presenter layout on your laptop screen, the video will stutter as you build in each bullet. Turning off the presenter tools usually takes care of that. Also, you can't extend the video onto a second slide, so anything you want to build in front of that video must be on THAT slide. Lastly, video currently pauses during a slide transition in Keynote, so even if you do a cross dissolve to the next slide, hoping for a smooth video to video transition, it won't be smooth, the video will freeze as it fades into the next one, which will also be frozen, then the next one will start playing.

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