Add Comments and Highlight Text to Slides and Objects

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In this video, we’re going to look at how we can add comments and highlight text to our slides and objects and Keynote on the Mac. Let’s go to my Mac. So I’m looking at my presentation here. And what I would like to do is add a couple of comments to it, maybe I need to come back to them later. Or if you’re collaborating someone, I have another video on collaboration. If you’re collaborating with someone, what you can do is comment on it. And then they can reply on, how do we add these comments? How do we highlight text? Well, basically, what we need to do is just select what we want to add a comment to, if I do not select anything, right now I just have my slide here selected. If I do not have anything else selected, I do not have any objects selected, what it’s going to do is add a comment to the entire slide. To do that, I just go up to my toolbar, and you’re going to see common here, I click on it. And we can see we have a comment here, this is applied to the entire slide, which means I can move this around and place it where I want, I can put a note in here, just start typing. And I can put a note there. Now with common set we add to the complete slide. If you use collaboration, they will not be able to reply to this, you cannot reply to comments that are applied to the slide itself. But we can reply to comments that are applied to objects. How do we do that? Well, all we need to do is select the object. Let’s say I wanted to make sure that this Volks parade here was on that specific day. So I want to add a common to it. So I select it here. And then all I have to do now that it’s selected is click on common here. And it’ll apply it to that object. So I just type in here, is this correct. And now if I was using collaboration, again, I do have another video on this. If I was using collaboration, the other person that I’m collaborating with would be able to reply to this. So you can use this almost like a thread, or you can use it just for your own comments. So I have these comments here. How do I remove them? How do I hide them? Well, to hide them, what we do is we go up to View here, and then you’re going to see hide comments. I just select this, and now they are hidden. So I want to show them again, just go back up under view here. And then you go over to show comments. So when I select this, they’re showing again, we can see my comment here for the entire slide. If I want to delete this, I just click on Delete, and now removes it. But if we look over at the comment for the object where I have bulk spread, you’re going to see I just have a little flag here, indicating that there is a common so how do I see that comment? Well, if I move my cursor over top of the object itself, so I’m going to move it over top of books parade, watch what happens, we can see my comment, I move my cursor away, it moves away. So when you’re showing your comments, it doesn’t actually show them until you move your cursor over top of it. So I just again, move it over top, it shows I move it back, it moves away. Now when we look at this common here, you’re going to see being that it is connected to an object, I can reply to it. And then I can also delete it. We can also print these comments. To print them, we just go up to our File in the menu bar. And then we go to print. When we print them, we need to select our slide here. And then when I click on include comments, what it does is it has actually moves it over to the right and you’re going to see the comments over here on the left. We can also see the comment there. You cannot print comments on all of these different styles here. If I go to grid, you’re going to see I do not have the option to print the comments. If I go to handout, I cannot print the comments. Basically what we can do with the comments is just print them on the slide layout here. I’m going to cancel here. So that’s how we work with comments. Now we can also highlight text. When we highlight text, it works very much like a comment. Let’s say I wanted to highlight this festival here this word festival. What I do is I double click on it, we can see that it is selected. And then what we do is we go up to Insert here in the menu bar, and you’re going to see a highlight. I select this and it highlights it.

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We can see that we have a comment here. Like I said it works very much like a comment but what it does is it just adds a comment or highlights the text that I have selected. So instead of adding a comment to the entire object, what you’re able to do, I’m going to go over here to a different slide. What you’re able to do is select the text here. So I want to select this text here. I need to add Common to it. So what I do is I highlight it, I go up under insert here, we go over to highlight. And now it highlighted that. Now what I’m able to do is add a comment to that. So it’s just the correct name, I could go correct name. And now we can see that it is highlighted. And it also has a little flag over here on the left. If you want to hide this, again, you just go up under View, and highlights works very much like comments, it actually works with comments. So all I have to do is just go down to hide comments here. And it’ll hide them, you’re going to see that they’re no longer being flagged. The reason why this is still selected or highlighted is because it is selected. So if I were to deselect this, you’re gonna see that it looks normal. But that highlight is still there. That comment is still there. All I do is just go up under View. And then we go over to show comments. And now we can see what is highlighted. And if I move my cursor over top, we can see the comment. So that’s how we add comments and highlight text in Keynote on the Mac.