Tips for creating an iPad-compatible Keynote presentation

I've utilized Apple's Keynote for presentations many times. It is so classy and distinct from Powerpoint. Therefore, if you want to stand out from other presentations, Keynote is the way to go.

Keynote is very intuitive and has transitions that are notched higher up on the graphic arts scale than Powerpoint.

Keynote can be exported to a Quicktime movie or into a Powerpoint file.
The Quicktime movie format can be placed on a website, sent via email and played by just about anyone with a computer nowadays. Quicktime Player, from Apple is a free application at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ . You can choose the Mac version or the Apple version at the same site.

When exporting Keynote into a Powerpoint format, sometimes they are not so compatible. You can do it, but you'll be tweaking the file afterwards.

Now, with the iPad being so popular, many more people will take advantage of Keynote within their work environment. If you have a Word document, don't worry about importing it to your iPad. iPad has the word processing application called Pages. It can import the Microsoft Word Document. Then you can import your text into Keynote.

Making a presentation with Keynote is excellent. So many choices and so much creativity. Your viewers will be impressed.

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Enjoy the creativity of Keynote!

One effective way to compromise between the ease and portability of the iPad presentation in Keynote and maintaining complex builds is to export your Keynote to Quicktime. Complex animations work just fine and you can specify whether to click to advance the video. I have no plans to redesign my 200+ presentations I use in teaching.

The biggest tip is avoid using a Windows version of Powerpoint... boy, does it mangle my text after the import.

I present my scientific research via keynote regularly, but not often enough to buy my own laptop (just use my boss's laptop). I was really wanted keynote on iPad to be sufficient. I understand not supporting every font, theme, or transition, but the lack of grouping is a deal breaker. I'll buy an iPad as soon as they get that fixed. Apple needs a 'convert for iPad' utility within keynote on the desktop to work out the issues prior to export to the iPad. Finding out the incompatability after you import is very un-Apple.

It would have been nice if Apple placed a quality presentation app for the iPad so that it could be used for sales, but Keynote just doesn't quite get the job done. I think most sales folks will be sticking with their laptops

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I played around with Keynote for iPad yesterday quite extensively and was fairly impressed with it. It's definitely the most functional of the iPad iWork apps, but I never tested cross compatibility with the desktop version yet. I don't think the inability to do every transition off the computer version is that big of deal considering that the desktop version can't even handle every transition on older hardware! The font issue is definitely troubling, and I hope they fix it with the ability to export from the desktop suite with the font included internally within the file.

The big feature I think that the iPad version is missing is the ability to do alpha mask. To me it's a glaring omission since I use it all the time to give the slides more "oomph". Apple's own walkthrough presentation included with keynote uses the feature in almost every slide showcasing how important it is.

Anyone who thinks that the iPad is merely an entertainment device either hasn't seen one, or hasn't used one. My clients, mostly Fortune 500 companies have me do presentations all the time. The iPad gets their attention ( hopefully my presentation keeps thair attention!). I bought my iPad primarily for this purpose. As others have mentioned, the iPad is far easier to use in small settings and works well in larger settings. It was a disappointment that Keynote is so crippled, and one must devise so many workarounds in order to create professional presentations on the iPad . The implementation is very un-Apple-like, in my opinion and I am hopeful this will get fixed soon. Anyone who doesn't see the possibilities of an iPad in their business isn't looking very hard. I haven't used my MBP since my iPad was delivered.

I love being able to do Keynote on my iPad, it makes it so much easier than having to lug around my laptop to do a presentation. The only thing that makes it useless is that I can't get presentations to loop, apparently this is a feature that is not part of Keynote for iPad.

Did a 45 minute cyber-terrorism talk, with embedded video this week - iPad only. Perfect, but wished that it supported an RF clicker so that I did not have to keep wandering back to the pad to change slides. Any takers on an app that uses the USB Camera connector to support the Kensington remote clicker???

You can simply save your presentation as a pdf from Powerpoint or Keynote and present it with the "Presenter" app. This app allows also previewing on the iPad screen and offers a nice pen-tool that allows to "annotate" slides or add arrows while speaking. In fact I stopped using Keynote to present. Moreover you have the option to turn the iPad into a White board and write and draw on it during your presentation.