Keynote 2: Text containing ligatures may not behave as expected in an object build slide

If you're creating a slide in Keynote 2 and want to animate the text, some of the characters may not behave as expected if a word contains a ligature. A ligature is a feature used by some fonts to combine two or more text characters into one. For example, a font may combine the "fi" in "find" into one character so that the dot on the "i" gets absorbed by the top curve of the "f" instead of having the two characters interfere with each other.

In Keynote 2, you can combine text characters with ligatures if the font you're using supports this feature. However, some individual characters in a ligature combination, such as "fl" (as in "flower") and "ff" (as in "caffeine"), will move together as a single entity when you apply certain character effects, such as Expand or Typewriter.

This is normal. If you don't want this to happen (you want each character to behave independently), set the font to not use ligatures (from the Font menu, choose Ligature, then Use None).