Things mom may not have told you about Keynote: Presenter Display

I have followed all your notes for setting up the presenter display. Everything works perfectly...except that my hyperlinks on the slides do not work. When I mirror the display and take off the presenter display the links work fine. Do you have to type your links in your notes to activate them when useing the presenter display?

Trust me, your audience knows you're looking at your slide notes, even if they can't see them.

I went for a job interview today, for a live events company, where i had to do a powerpoint test (on a PC). The interface is diabolical. I find it funny that ppt is so much nicer to use on the Mac version. Still not as good as Keynote.

Also, don't forget that you can customize the presenter display. I made the next slide much smaller so that I have more room for notes.

THe ability to drag and drop a mov file is awesome. Keynote beats PPT in every category (other than most-widely-used) Keynote Remote combined with SBsettings and the ability to turn off the phone function of my iPhone (critical so as not to be interrupted during a presentation) make for a perfect presentation setup.

While I would LOVE to use Keynote (and Pages for that matter) I simply haven't found the export to ppt / import from ppt reliable enough to assure that the things I create in Keynote remain as nice once they're shared and edited by windows users and then come back to me. Is there any third party software that does an better job of the conversion than Keynote itself?

Nice article this. Thought I'd share my Keynote experiences - I use Keynote for building retail point of sale material for LCD display units (via AppleTVs, funnily enough) and it really does the job superbly. Big plus for me is the ability to drag and drop PSD, AI and PDF files - ideal if you have images with backgrounds knocked out without having to use gifs or PNGs. Ability to output to MOV for the AppleTV is a huge plus. Nice easy workflow too. Probably the most underrated piece of software Apple make, and it makes me think that Apple really aren't pushing the capabilities of Keynote when combined with an AppleTV. Now AppleTV supports looping video playlists this really is a cheap and easy POS solution.

Great tool, and great over view of it! Thanks for this, it helped me and I'm sure it will help a lot of other people find this hidden gem in Keynote.

I consider myself to be very proficient in PowerPoint. Back in the old days, I made wicked presentations that have all my classmates and profs drooled over. My slides became synonymous with beautiful graphics and excellent animations (things like mimicking a Polaroid camera takes a picture and then a paper rolls out at the bottom of the camera.)

Having said that, I now much prefer Keynote over PowerPoint. Sure, I can't stack animations on top of one another to reproduce that Polaroid camera effect. But for whatever animations that I can utilize, the quality is so high. Text run-in was smooth, sparkles spark beautifully on the screen, as if an aluminum plate was being carved by a laser. And the superior typographic control, graphics format, video and audio integration really sealed the deal. (Plus it can be controlled with a dead-simple, elegant remote that I couldn't find on Windows).

Keynote has owned Power Point for years.

Keynote 09 + iPhone app Stage hand = the best presentation setup you can have.

I prefer the PPT presenter mode. It shows you more slides than just the next one. You can go back say, two slides, if you need to with a single click.