iWork ’09

Keynote ’09

What is Keynote?

Create your presentation in Keynote, and you’ll be a hard act to follow. Powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow.

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Easy from the start

Easy from the start

Create stunning presentations in minutes.

Powerful graphics tools

Powerful graphics tools

Customize and edit graphics quickly and easily.

Animations and effects

Animations and effects

Add amazing effects with easy-to-use tools.

Flexible ways to present

Flexible ways to present

Deliver your presentation in a variety of ways.

Share your presentations

Compatibility and sharing.

Open, save, and email files in popular formats.

Easy from the start

It presents beautifully.

Even if you’ve never used Keynote before, you’ll find creating a presentation surprisingly simple. It all starts with an enhanced Theme Chooser that lets you preview an impressive collection of 44 Apple-designed themes. Drag across a theme to skim through its slide designs. Once you’ve chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply substitute placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Thanks to the Slide Navigator, the progress of your presentation and its organization are always in view.

Easy-to-use tools let you add elements such as tables, charts, media, and shapes to your slides. Add a table with a click. Just as easily add a 3D chart that you can animate. With the Media Browser, you can drag and drop photos from your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, movies from your Movies folder, and music from your iTunes library.

Choose a theme.

Create your presentation using one of 44 beautifully designed themes, including HD themes with 1920-by-1080 resolution.

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It presents beautifully
Powerful Tools

Powerful graphics tools

Looking good comes easy.

Make each slide in your presentation look its absolute best, using the powerful graphics tools built into Keynote. Quickly and cleanly remove the background of an image using the Instant Alpha tool. Or mask it within a predrawn shape, such as a circle or a star. With alignment and spacing guides, you can easily find the center of the slide and see if objects are spaced evenly. So anything you add to your slides — graphics, images, text boxes, or shapes — is placed precisely where you want it. If you’re adding a flowchart or a diagram to your slide, then you’ll appreciate the new connection lines feature. Connection lines between two objects remain anchored, no matter what changes you make. Move the objects around, and the lines move with them.

Add and edit graphics with ease.

Make your graphics just as noteworthy as your words. Remove the background from an image easily. Or mask it within a predrawn shape.

Find out how to customize your graphics

Animations and effects

Animation and effects

Standing ovation highly likely.

With your choice of more than 25 transitions, including 3D transitions, you’re sure to keep their eyes riveted to the screen as you move from one slide to the next. Apply the new Magic Move transition and a repeated object, such as your company’s logo, automatically changes location, scale, opacity, and rotation across consecutive slides.

Add stunning effects.

In just a few clicks, add cinema-quality transitions, animations, and effects to your presentation.

See transitions and animations in action

Find out how to add transitions and animations

Text and object animations are a compelling way to punctuate your message. Morph text on one slide into text on the next slide. Build your slide one bullet point, table row, or chart series at a time. Or have it all appear at once, entering stage left or spinning onto the screen. You can fine-tune your animations by setting the duration, choosing which element is affected first, and defining the animation path along a straight line or a curve.

Flexible ways to present

Your show. Your way.

Keep the pace of your presentation flowing smoothly with the Presenter Display feature. While your presentation appears on the main display for your audience, you can see the current and next slides, your slide notes, a clock, and a timer on a second display. Add Keynote Remote1 to your iPhone or iPod touch and feel free to roam around the room while you present. Using Wi-Fi, Keynote Remote turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless controller. In landscape view, see the current and next slides. In portrait, see the current slide with your slide notes. Tap to play and swipe to advance, wherever you are in the room. Buy Keynote Remote from iTunes now

When you can’t be there, the show can still go on. Using the built-in narration tool, Keynote captures your audio voiceover and timing as you step through builds or move from one slide to the next.

Benefit from helpful tools.

Use handy features, like Presenter Display, to stay on point and on track.

Find out how to use presenter tools

Flexible ways to present
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Share your presentation.

Open and save as Microsoft PowerPoint files. Email your presentation right from Keynote. And share with everyone on the web.

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Find out how to share your presentation

Compatibility and sharing

Approved for all audiences.

Keynote gives you a variety of ways to bring your show to the people. You can use it to import presentations created in Microsoft PowerPoint and to create presentations that can easily be saved as PowerPoint files. You can also export your presentation as a QuickTime movie, or a PDF, HTML, or image file; or even directly to YouTube. Keynote does the format conversion for you.

Share your work on the web.

When you need to share your presentation, but aren’t sure whether your colleagues use a Mac or PC, iWork or Microsoft Office, publish it to iWork.com Public Beta.2 Reviewers receive an email with a unique URL where they can view your presentation’s slides, post comments, and download a version ideal for them in Keynote, PowerPoint, or PDF format.

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  1. Keynote Remote is sold separately and is available from the App Store. Some applications are not available in all areas. Application availability is subject to change.
  2. The iWork.com Public Beta is not part of iWork '09. It is a service available to persons age 13 and older. Internet access is required. Additional fees may apply. Terms of service apply. For details, see www.apple.com/legal/iworkcom/en/terms.