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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / August 2006What do you think of Keynote for the Mac?
Hi... I was just wondering if there are any experienced PowerPoint users out there who have also tried out Keynote. Keynote looks like a very slick presentation program. The animation options also seem to be superior to the current release of PowerPoint. I haven't had the oportunity to try out Keynote yet... I've seen some videos and pictures... but I was wondering if I could get some opinions about the software from people who have tried both programs. However... even if Keynote is the superior presentaion program, there are still a couple of reasons why I would stick with PowerPoint. 1) PowerPoint presentations are playable on a PC. As far as I know, a Keynote presentation will *only* run on a Mac. But if there is a way to create a Keynote presentation on a Mac, and then save it/convert it so that it can be played on a PC, please let me know. (Kind of like the PowerPoint viewer for PC's without PowerPoint). 2) PowerPoint has integration with the rest of the Office Suite. I build corporate presentations, and every business that I have been involved with uses MS Office. I would need a presentation program that is able to link to Excel Spreadsheets and Word Documents. Let me know if Keynote is actually able to do this as well... Also... for anyone who has had the chance to use PowerPoint 2007, does the new version of powerpoint offer any new animations/transition effects similar to what Keynote offers? Does it look like PowerPoint 2007 is going to significantly improve and change the way we build presentations? For anyone who has an opinion on any of these matters... please let me know. Thanks! art. > Also... for anyone who has had the chance to use PowerPoint 2007, does the > new version of powerpoint offer any new animations/transition effects > similar > to what Keynote offers? Does it look like PowerPoint 2007 is going to > significantly improve and change the way we build presentations? The animations and transitions are the same in PPT 2007 as they are in 2003. I think PPT 2007 will significantly change the way many of us work if only because of the "Ribbon" and lack of customization and tearoff menus. It also significantly improves our ability to make good looking slides with just a few clicks. The various new effects (shadows, reflections, 3D, etc.) are very cool (I just hope people don't go crazy with them.), and the slides in general look much more sophisticated. Text handling is much improved. The "selection and visibility" pane lets you rename objects -- and the new names show up in the custom animtion pane, so complex animations will be easier to deal with in that respect, at least. Take the test drive at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/testdrive.mspx so you can see for yourself!  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com > The animations and transitions are the same in PPT 2007 as they are in 2003. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow.... Over 4 years and not even a single new slide transition? That's really disspointing to hear... I mean... the thought that Microsoft would not be updating a single animation never even occured to me! My thoughts about the new PowerPoint were more like: "So how many new effects will the animation pane have this time?" "Will the advanced timeline feature keyframing?" and "Will they finally drop raster-based animations for scalable vector based animation?" Oh man... but you say they haven't changed anything from 2003? That just about blows my mind! That's like dropping the POWER from PowerPoint... So what about Vista's highly touted graphics system, Avalon? Even if the animations have not been updated for PowerPoint2007 installed on XP... surely they would have taken advantage of Avalon to add some great animations in PowerPoint2007 installed on Vista! ? :( Maybe it's time to buy a Mac? At least Apple doesnt take half a decade to update their software... art... > Oh man... but you say they haven't changed anything from 2003? That just > about blows my mind! That's like dropping the POWER from PowerPoint... Microsoft did change the whole UI (User Interface). That needs a lot of programming (Jensen Harris described a lot about that in his blog). And they added graphic effects like SmartArt, which make life a lot easier. Plus enhancements which are not visible on the first glance like XML file format. Thus I can understand that animation were not changed in this version. (Most users don't use the full power of the existing animations and their combinations.) Best regards, Ute SignatureUte Simon Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team und PowerPoint-User-Team Tipps, Tricks und Kostenloser Newsletter: www.ppt-user.de > I mean... the thought that Microsoft would not be updating a single > animation never even occured to me! My thoughts about the new PowerPoint > were more like: "So how many new effects will the animation pane have this > time?" "Will the advanced timeline feature keyframing?" and "Will they > finally drop raster-based animations for scalable vector based animation?" Oh, so you're disappointed Microsoft didn't turn PPT into Flash? :-) Seriously, what exactly would you expect a PPT keyframe to be/do? One of the fantastic things about PPT is its relative ease of use. I expect that the animations will be updated in PPT 14, but I know the challenge will be to keep it user friendly while doing so. (And just for the record, this is my own guess -- I don't have any inside information or anything like that!) > Oh man... but you say they haven't changed anything from 2003? That just > about blows my mind! That's like dropping the POWER from PowerPoint... Well, the whole Office UI was completely revamped, so I know the PPT team had a lot of work just to get back to baseline. And the grapics capabilites really have been stepped up. I think that is a tremendous improvement, one that is, in my opinion, even more important to PPT than animations. Just my $.02 > Maybe it's time to buy a Mac? At least Apple doesnt take half a decade to > update their software... Go for it. But what's with the gratuitous slam? SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com > Maybe it's time to buy a Mac? At least Apple doesnt take half a decade to > update their software... Ah. Religion. Worship at whatever altar makes you happiest. Dawgma, A very fair and balanced mac users powerpoint of view of keynote versus powerpoint http://www.indezine.com/blog/2006/07/apple-keynote-vs-microsoft-powerpoint.html Cheers TAJ Simmons microsoft powerpoint mvp awesome - powerpoint backgrounds, http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more... >> The animations and transitions are the same in PPT 2007 as they are in >> 2003. [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > art... |
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