Keynote - allow fluid paragraph text over two columns

[marsattacks]

Help! Any ideas how to allow the text in a single paragraph in a Keynote slide with a two-column layout to flow between two columns?

By default, Keynote doesn't break the text at all and keeps it in column one (hiding part of the paragraph or shifting the whole paragraph to column two) unless you artificially break the paragraph into two (which of course then screws up any subsequent formatting/editing). Must be missing something, as it's such basic functionality it's been in PowerPoint since I can remember... Thanks!

 

[sracer]

The latest version of Keynote does not support "linked" text boxes. However, Pages does support it (although rudimentary compared to Pages '09). As a work around, you can create and format those linked text boxes in Pages and then copy and paste them into Keynote. Once pasted into Keynote they won't be linked anymore, but the formatting and content will be preserved.

I hope this helps.

 

[marsattacks]

Thanks sracer for the reply and tip; it's a shame Keynote doesn't support linked text boxes now, and it seems quite illogical that it doesn't support linked columns within a *single* text box... But hey, what do we know, we just use the software...