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One great feature of Keynote is that when creating your presentations, you can utilize an
extensive variety of images and other media types in your presentation. Additionally, Keynote
has built-in tools for creating tables and charts. Together, these features allow you to create visually
stunning presentations.
To go one step further, Keynote has a wide variety of animation and transition effects available.
Keynote ’08 even adds a smart build feature that helps you automatically build slicklooking
animations for presenting images.
Besides helping you build your presentation, Keynote allows you to add comments and
notes to each slide to help you with your presentations. Comments are like sticky notes that you
can add to your slides as you go through them, maybe suggesting a change or something. Notes,
on the other hand, are actual presentation notes. Your notes can either be printed or can be visible
on one screen while using another screen for your presentation.
Once you have finished your presentation, you can select View ➤ Rehearse Slideshow to
help practice your presentation. This will walk you through your presentation but with a timer
visible so you can help pace your presentation within a given amount of time.
When you are ready for your presentation, hit the Play button (or select View ➤ Play
Slideshow or press Opt+Cmd+P), and your screen will switch to a full-screen presentation. A
click of the mouse will move you forward one screen or trigger the next animation event.
Besides using Keynote to present your presentation, you can print your presentation in various
ways to hand out before or after your presentation. Also, you can export your Keynote
presentations so they can be presented using a variety of methods including QuickTime, Power-
Point, HTML, Flash, or even a special version for your iPod.
Pages ’08
CHAPTER 17 iWORK ‘08 283
The first version of iWork (iWork ’05) introduced Pages along with an updated version Keynote.
Although it hasn’t been around as long as Keynote, with its third release, Pages ’08 is a stable,
full-featured word processor as well as a very capable page layout tool.
As a word processor (Figure 17-3), Pages ’08 provides most of the tools you will ever need
in any situation, including footnotes, bookmarks, custom styles, grammar and spelling checking,
the ability to generate a table of contents, and (new with Pages ’08) the ability to track document
changes during revisions.