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The ups and few downs of Keynote.
I hate sounding like an Apple fanboy all the time, but it’s hard when you’ve worked on both sides and can easily see the advantage of the Apple experience. I don’t usually have to do much in Power Point, but when I do, I hate it.
Today, I had to throw together a “state of the church” slideshow for a meeting on Sunday. I decided to use Keynote instead of Power Point.
Wow. What a better user experience. Almost everything is easier in Keynote than on PP. Apple did a great job. I’m using one of their built in templates. When it came down to making a chart, I could believe how simple they made it. It was also so easy to make it look professional, that I didn’t even try to “design” a slideshow, I just used the template.
Ups:
- Fast
- Intuitive
- Clean and Uncluttered
- Puts the polish on for me
- Nice built in templates
- Animation is a hundred times easier on Keynote than PP
- Font consistency. A dream come true. PP is always trying to resize things
Downs:
- Still not crazy about how Apple deals with the font pallet. It seems clunky for the most widely used tool in the program.
- Floating pallets are still a clutter factor when you have 5 of them open and they don’t lock into a position.
