Sync wireless keyboard, want to confirm why I can't.

I've read the manual and looked through various forums to find out why I can't connect my Apple Bluetooth keyboard with my iPad and if I've read all this correctly then I need to go into my imac's preference screen and disconnect the keyboard before I can reconnect it to my iPad. Is that correct and if so will I have to disconnect it from my iPad when I reconnect it to my iMac? It seems too complex for Apple products.
Btw, I'm (trying) to use my keyboard from work and I've tried removing the batteries.

This is the way Bluetooth functions. Normally a Bluetooth device can only actually communicate with one device at a time. Unless the device supports something called multipoint. I have one Bluetooth headset that supports multipoint.
You can pair the keyboard with multiple devices, but it can only be connected and used on one device at a time.
If you are using it on your iMac then that is the last device the keyboard remembers being connected too, and it will search for that device. You need to tell the iMac to disconnect from the keyboard, the tell the iPad to connect too it. And yes, you will have to do the reverse when you want to use the same keyboard back on your iMac vs the iPad.

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