'Double click to edit' boxes in Keynote?

[sharky05]

Hi,

I've recently embarked on making a few keynote themes, but the problem i'm coming across is all my textboxes are locked when you're not in the master slide edit mode - in the themes that come with keynote you get these 'double click to edit' boxes that can be changed by the user, but I haven't found a way of making a normal locked text box behave in this way. Any ideas?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Perhaps you have to select the text box first, then bring the Inspector up and alter its properties so it isn't locked. A text box with no text in it should display that placeholder text, unless for some reason it cannot be edited.

 

[sharky05]

I've selected it in the master slide and gone to the arrange menu, but it's already unlocked. Locking it means I can't edit in the master slide either.
Any more ideas?

Thanks

 

[sharky05]

Just for the record here's the solution I found:

select the textbox, go to Format > Advanced > Define as text placeholder. Also works for image holders.

 

[ox4dboy]

select the textbox, go to Format > Advanced > Define as text placeholder. Also works for image holders.

All of the Advanced menu items are grayed out when I attempt that fix in Keynote '09.

Any additional ideas?