If there's an app in the iWork trio that showcases the iPad's looks best, it's Keynote - it shines when it displays slides and snazzy animated transitions as your presentation plays on the high-resolution screen. Designed to let you show off photos, graphics, and short items of bullet-pointed text, Keynote is the most intuitive of the three apps to make use of.
Keynote comes with 12 templates, a number of them extremely plain for your more serious discusses how the company' missed its financial goals for Q4, and some fancier for middle-school book reports and vacation essays. Once you pick a template, your next task would be to fill it up with your own pictures and text.
During your presentation, it's not necessary to progress statically from slide to slip. Keynote comes with several animated transitions. You can spin, twirl, pop, flip, dissolve, or zoom to get you against one slide to the next - and you can apply another transition for some or every slide in the presentation.
Keynote provides you with control over the text on your slides, building in animated effects that have your titles disappear in a hail of flash bulbs, for instance. Here's a tour from the Keynote toolbar:
Style text. Tap a text block to pick it, then tap the icon to get to the Style, Text, and Arrange tabs. The Style tab holds the color and border options, while the written text tab lets you format typeface, style, color, and more. Having a picture selected, you can use the Arrange option to flip objects and edit the mask that frames the image.
Add images and graphics. Tap here to get towards the controls for adding any photo or graphical element in the presentation.
Add animated transitions. Tap the dual-diamond icon to go to the animation screen. Tap any slide thumbnail, and then tap the None button to open up the Transitions box. Search the Effects list and pick a dramatic animation to go from one slide to another. Tap the Options button to time the transition - or to have it go when you tap the iPad's screen.
Change settings. Tap here to determine the Tools menu. As in Pages and Numbers, this is the menu to visit if you want to use the Find feature to search for certain words in your presentation. Tap the "Go to Help..." option to switch over to Safari and browse through Apple's in-depth, online manual for all things Keynote. The rest of the Tools menu consists of On/Off switches for the built-in Edge Guides, the display of each slide's number, and the embarrassment-saving spell-checker to catch giant typos in slide titles and text.
Play. Tap the familiar > icon to start your presentation. If you set your transitions to succeed automatically, sit back and enjoy the show. If you opted to manually advance each slide, tap or swipe the iPad's screen to march with the show.
Add Slide. Tap the + at the end of the vertical column of slides to contact a box filled with slide styles to add new ones to the show. Some slide templates are simply text blocks, some are photo-only, and some have both text and photos. If you aren't seeing quite what you want, pick the one closest to your vision and employ the text and object formatting controls described on the opposite page to get that slide more to your liking.
To animate text or images on or off a slide, tap the element and then tap the toolbar's dual-diamond icon. Tap Build In or Built Out, and then select an impact from the menu. It is good fun. For an even cooler way to grab your audience's attention during presentation playback, press and hold your finger on the slide for a second or two. A red laser pointer dot appears on-screen and follows your fingertip around while you drag it to point out something important.
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