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How to make your own Keynote template

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You probably know I hate presentation templates. However in last couple of months I have found myself not only using them, but creating them, I have been blown away with what  I have been able to achieve. There is a caveat, my own templates have only one master slide, and it is a blank one. That is all you actually need from a template: one single blank master slide. There are 3 things that blank slide has. A font family, like Roboto. A background color. A color palette. Here is an example: I like Roboto for 3 reasons: It is free, it is professional, and it has enough styles and glyphs. I have been starting to use Keynote's Color Palette just a few week and it has helped me speed out my work and keep my work consistent.  Mini-tutorial 1. Getting down to only 1 master Slide 1.  Let's start from with a default template, say "White".  2. Click on Show Master Slides. 3. I have added the Rule of Thirds to my white template for better placeme