iWork® '09 For Dummies®

Chapter 18. Creating a Keynote Presentation

In This Chapter

• Using the Keynote window

• Creating a simple Keynote presentation

Like all iWork apps, Keynote has its own window features. The basics of the window are the same as for the other apps: a toolbar, a format bar, and an Inspector window. But, as in the other apps, each of those components has customized features for Keynote.

When you compare Keynote to the other apps, you may be able to see that it is the original iWork app: Its interface is the most complex. Partly this is because it has evolved over the longest time, but it's also because presentations can be much more complex than Pages documents or Numbers spreadsheets. When you prepare a presentation well, you bring together the information to be presented along with visuals and slides of text. The presentation can involve notes for yourself as well as a structured sequence of slides. By organizing the presentation in this way, you provide the most interesting and useful presentation.

Perhaps you've had the experience of sitting through a presentation in which the speaker reads every word on every slide: It quickly becomes tedious. Organizing your presentation into separate components of visuals, speaker's notes, planned discussion topics, and time for questions can provide a useful and interesting presentation for your audience — and for yourself.

This chapter is the overview of the basic Keynote tools that help you create and present your Keynote presentations.

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