Keynote/Powerpoint question

How can I save a powerpoint presentation on my mac to be viewed on whiteboard?

Simplest way would be to run the PowerPoint file directly on the computer at the school if it is a Windows machine and the computer has PowerPoint or PPt Viewer installed.
If it is a Mac computer, use the original Keynote file if Keynote is installed.
Use a PDF file exported from Keynote as a second method of playback.
Trying to import Powerpoint into a computer with an unkown interactive host programme will end in disaster as not all host programmes can import Powerpoint. Those that can import PowerPoint are very specific about the version of PowerPoint used.

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I have been trying to export a keynote powerpoint with voice over to quick time. It keeps crashing. Can anything be done?

I have been trying to export a keynote powerpoint with voice over to quick time. It keeps crashing. Can anything be done?

Can you explain this better, there appears to be a strange work flow going on, have you imported PowerPoint into Keynote or you are trying to export to PowerPoint?
There are many users who have trouble with a recorded voice over going to Quicktime.
Try this repair, its sorted out many similar problems in the past.
Complete all the tasks and in the order shown:
1 delete all the iWork applications if you have them, not just Keynote by using Appcleaner from Mac Update to           do this, its freeware
2 restart the Mac;   Apple menu > restart
3 immediately after the start chime, press the shift key until you see the Apple symbol.
         let it fully boot up, it will take longer as the OS is repairing the drive
4 when fully booted, go to Applications > Utilities > Disc Utility; click on the boot drive then First Aid tab and           click repair disc permissions
5 when complete, restart the Mac normally
6 install Keynote from the Mac App Store
Please report back to let us know if this helped.

Keynote - font question

Apologies, I'm using Keynote for the first time, can anyone advise...
If I prepare a keynote doc, save it as Powerpoint for my client and pass it along, will the fonts be ok that I have used, I mean will they show up ok if the presentation is shown on any other computer (like a PDF?)
hope to hear from you
brgds
Alex

Simple question - does iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) have the font "Times New Roman"?
TNR is automatically part of OS X 10.6 and is available for all apps.

Dual display problems when using keynote, powerpoint etc..

I can run my macbook in mirroring mode and extended desktop no probs but as soon as I run programs such as powerpoint, keynote or presenter software it will run the slides on the MacBook screen and put the control/operators screen on the projected screen/secondary display!!!!
Any idea's as I would like to see the control screen myself and the MacBook screen is obviously to small for me to use to present slides! It sort of defeats the object of having second display...
Any idea's???

Hi,
Under preferences for Keynote - Presenter Display - there is a checkbox option which seems to change which display is used to show slides/information.

IPhoto Album to Keynote/Powerpoint Presentation

Is there any automated way of sending an album of iPhoto pictures to a Keynote or Powerpoint presentation with each picture as their own slide?
Thanks

Hello Someone!
I know of two ways to kind of "batch" automate your process:
1. Your keynote presentation that should hold your slides is open. The keynote window must show the thumbnails of your slides on the left side (Presumably, there is only one there yet - the automatically created first slide - to be seen.) If they are not shown, go to the view menu and select "Navigator". Select all the pictures you want to have in your keynote file in iPhoto and drag them over into the thumbnail view on the left side (not onto the slide!). That should create one slide for each photo.
As for PowerPoint, I don't know whether the things said above work - they should, though. But with powerpoint you can use the application to build a slide show from files in a folder. Well, for this you just have to create a folder of your images from iPhoto, easy enough...
2. If you are on OS X Tiger you can run the "automator" application to do this. Open keynote and select a theme so a file to hold your slides is open. Open automator and create a workflow. Select iPhoto on the library pane in automator and drag the action "Ask for photos" to the right pane. Make sure "Allow multiple selection" is checked.
Select keynote in the library pane and drag the action "Create Image slide" under(!) "Ask for photos". They should be connected by "Files/Folders". Set the options according to your likings, then run the script. Automator will let you choose images from the iPhoto library. Just make sure you really select the images (so they have the blue selection rectangle around) in this sheet (lower section of the sheet), not only the iPhotoAlbum or so. Click the arrow to run the workflow. Save it for reuse...
There are powerpoint actions on apples website for download, they should provide you with the same possibilities for this application, but I did not try these.
Greetings
dirk

Newbie to keynote; some questions and some observations about this group

Hello, my attn was called to this group. I have seen some impressive presentations in keynote so maybe it is time to switch.
From what?
I do a lot of presentations. I use acrobat. Prepare my page in whatever app is best for the job; print to pdf; include fonts. By using the app of my choice I get just what I want in my slide.
I can readily arrange slides in sorter in acrobat. Allows minimal animation, by, say, preparing the full slide, make copies, and delete progressively. sort to show from the least to the fullest; works for me.
pdf allows touch up text and adding text, which I often think of at the last minute. Drawing an oval or line to point to something. For heavier editing open a slide in illustrator and save as pdf.
So, as I say it works for me. Not glitzy. Certainly pretty easy to produce decent slides.
Most everyone has acrobat on his/her machine, so if I take my presentation on a stick, it can work, nicely, cross platform. Very few occasions when that didnt work.
So I would like to hear folks' experiences. Can you take your presentation on a stick and show it on someone else's computer?
What about posting presentations. I generally put my pdf on my web page, giving the audience the url; seeems to work fine. Again I ask for experience.
Seems like quite a learning curve for keynote. And I browsed about 4 pages of discussion on this board before posting. I saw mostly complaints and problems, and not all that many solutions. And very few raves.
So, I would welcome some testimonials.
PS I dont want to do anything so glitzy that folks will come up to me after the talk and say nice animations; better they talk to me about the substance of my talk.
thanks in advance
-trog

Welcome to the forums, troglodyte.
If you want a testimonial, I think that Keynote is hands-down the easiest to use presentation tool, and produces by far the best-looking results. It is far ahead of PowerPoint.
Keynote produced beautiful results, even when converted to PDF, as it has very nice graphics features (e.g., drop shadows, masking, transparency). If you are most comfortable with PDF, and don't need animations or transitions, then Keynote still has a lot to offer. That said, much of the "wow-factor" of Keynote comes from its lovely and sophisticated transitions and animations.
(These features needn't be just eye-candy, either, as they can serve to emphasize points and help unify certain material. For example, I use transitions that are more obvious, such as the "Doorway", to mark major changes of topic in my presentations, and more subtle ones, like "Dissolve", to change between related slides. This "grammar" of transitions helps to make the presentation more comprehensible.)
Keynote is not cross-platform, so you can't put a native Keynote presentation on a memory stick and be assured that it will work on someone else's computer. However, PDFs make from Keynote should function just fine. Alternatively, you can use various of the other exporting options in Kenote, including Quicktime, Flash, and PowerPoint, to provide more cross-platform compatibility than Keynote does (each of these conversions has its own limitations however). And several of these formats are also appropriate for web deployment.
I find Keynote extremely easy to use. Do realize that these forums are primarily intended for troubleshooting, so you won't find a lot of generic compliments to the application.

Using a projector with KeyNote/PowerPoint

How can I blank the output to the projector so I can work on the laptop to set up the next presentation for subsequent speakers? Easy on Windows (Fn F4 typically), can't see any way to do it with my Mac!

lynnej46 wrote:
When using PowerPoint or Keynote with a projector (e.g., giving a presentation), the laptop display is blurry, although the projected image is clear.
I had that only once after updating to 10.6.8.
First Aid:
Connect projector before starting Keynote.
Set in System Settings - Displays - Arrangement different (matching) resolutions for projector and your display and look that "clone" is not checked.
Eventually uncheck "Automatically arrange brightness..." during presentation.
Cheers - Lupunus
PS ... After a major update (as 10.6.8 is) you are recommended to perform a permissions repair with the Disk Utility. Don't bother about upcoming warnings during that run, the ocour mostly as the repair is performed on a running system and opened files could not by touched by the tool.

Keynote/Powerpoint compatibility issues

My professor has her lectures available for us online in .ppt format but when I open them with keynote large gaps of the information are completely missing. Is there a way I can fix this?

when ever i go into the build menu i have these effects grayed out and a warning that states these effects can not work on my computer....any suggestions?, i am having trouble with my 3d Charts as well, when ever i click on a 3d chart the program crashes....HELP?
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How to keynote presentation question

I will build a keynote presentation for a presentation at univeristy. My MBP will be connected to a external screen for the public. Now I am wondering if there is a way so that I can have also my personal notes to look at on my MBP, but they will not show on the public screen?
Many thanks!

To set up presenter display to show the notes window:
Keynote > Preferences > Presenter Display > select: use alternate display

2 Keynote chart questions

I'm trying to build a series of 14 different data charts in Keynote. I'm having problems creating two...
Chart 1 (Line-format): This is for "Average Time" spent on a helpdesk call. For the Y-axis, I can't figure out a way to input data in a Minute:Second format (the X-axis is the months of the year).
For example:
Jan - 5:32
Feb - 6:38
Mar - 2:43, etc.
Chart 2 (Column-format): Ideally, I'd like to compare two different data types on a single chart. This for "Server Availability"... the X-axis are the months, with the left-side Y-axis being % of availability, and the right-side Y-axis featuring number of hours unavailable.
For example:
Jan: 99.77% availability/1.68 hours unavailable
Feb: 99.62% availability/2.77 hours unavailable
Mar: 99.70% availability/2.19 hours unavailable, etc.
Thoughts?, Thanks!
Dual 2 Ghz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to the discussions, Unisphere.
Keynote's charting abilities are relatively rudimentary, and I don't believe it can handle either of the two chart types you want. Your best bet is to do up the charts in another application and paste them in. A post on another thread mentioned the freeware application Plot, which will definitely do two Y-axes plots, and may be able to handle time-based plots as well -- this might be a simple solution.

Powerpoint Question

If this is the wrong place to post this, please point me in the right direction.
I have an older version of Powerpoint on my G4 and want to download a feature on the newer that will allow me to zoom in on images. I saw a place online where you can download this feature for free, but it's only for PCs. Does anybody know where I can find this for Mac's?
Thanks.

In Powerpoint, open the file you want to print, choose print, and "Handouts-3 by page" (instead of slides), this will give you 3 slides per page and lines besides each one to take notes. Or you can print "Notes", however, this would not give you lines, only a blank space below the slide (about half page).

Iweb and keynote tricky question!

Is there a way to make a presentation in keynote with hyperlinks and transitions and publish that in iweb?i would be very thankful if somebody can describe the procedure...if there is one of course

There's a few things to remember, but I can only think of one right now.
It would be good if QuickTime offered a "Loading" screen by default or allowed you to create one without tools like LiveStage Pro, because interactive presentations with links back and forth have to load completely and, until they do, the first slide will play over and over.
The one thing to remember is that you ALWAYS want to LINK using NON-transitional slides if you're going to a slide that isn't the next one. ie, going from slide 2 - 3, fine, no problem, link however you want with whatever transition you want. Going from slide 2-5, as long as you make sure slide 5 doesn't START with a transition (from slide 4), you're good.

Three Keynote '08 questions

1. Why can't the flame effect be played on my Macbook?
2. How can the background music be temporarily stopped while a video file is playing?
3. Is there any way to play a DRMed video file in Keynote?
Thanks
-Keeperofall

1. The video card is not sufficiently powerful.
2. It can't -- there is no way to get music to play through a presentation but to be paused for a section of it. One workaround is to create separate presentation for the part prior to the video, the video itself, and the part after the video, and hyperlink these three presentations together as one (putting the music only in the first and last sections).
3. I don't believe there is, even if you own the video.

New Captivate 5.0 User - Powerpoint Question

I have a Powerpoint 2003 presentation that I have been asked make into a Captivate 5.0 presentation for posting on a website. Normally I talk throughout the presentation and click to advance the slides and make animation objects appear and disappear as needed.
The desired outcome is a Captivate presentation which the user will simply view...no clicking on the user's part.
How do I best accomplish this? Do I need to back to Powerpoint and change from clicks to advance animation and slides and make it all automatic timing?

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Keynote Audio Question

Hey guys - my first post on here...
I'm making a keynote pres. and was wondering if it is possible to have multiple songs play throughout... Right now, I can't seem to find any way to have more than one song play or loop throughout the presentation...
Any Ideas?
Thanks

There is a simple workaround. I have done this at numerous places within the slide show with from 6-25 slides. You simply compose the slides and then paste each one with all of its objects on top of the first slide which has the sound file that you want played for all of the slides. Timing will have to be adjusted to suit. I found the easiest way to do this is to create a new Keynote file which I call a build file it contains all of the individual slides and a master slide. After I have set all the objects to build properly on the individual slides I then paste them into the master slide which has the initial transition and the sound file as well as a top level text file which identifies the sound file being played. I paste each additional slide, on the master slide, as a new set of object layers play and adjust timing as required. When I am satisfied I take the finished master slide and paste it into the master Keynote presentation. My most complex one to date has over 200 objects in the build order and takes about 3 minutes to play.

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