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Apple's Keynote, part of the iWork suite of business and productivity applications, creates presentations equivalent to those you prepare in Microsoft PowerPoint, with individual slides featuring text and graphics. If you're a Mac-based business transitioning from PowerPoint to Keynote or you collaborate with PowerPoint users, Keynote's flexible file-compatibility options help you move your presentation files from one application to the other. The transition from PowerPoint to Keynote starts and ends within Keynote itself.

Launch Keynote. Open the File menu, choose 'Open' and navigate to the location of your PowerPoint document.

Click on the 'Open' button to allow Keynote to translate your PPT or PPTX file into Keynote format. When the translation finishes, the file opens in Keynote. If any features of the original document failed to translate correctly, Keynote presents a warning to alert you to conversion problems. Click on the 'Review' button to examine the error details or the 'Don't Review' button to proceed directly to the document.

Edit your presentation, looking for any PowerPoint features that don't present the appearance you want. Dress up your slides with Keynote's textures and transitions.

Open the File menu and choose 'Save As.' Turn off the 'Hide Extension' check box at the bottom of the Save As window so you can see the KEY file extension as you save your document in Keynote format.

Navigate to where you want to save your file, if you want to save it in a different location than your original PowerPoint document. Rename your file to distinguish it further from its PowerPoint origins. Click on the 'Save' button to complete the process.

Tips

• Save a copy of your PowerPoint presentation in PDF format so you can confirm or compare its original appearance with your new Keynote version.
• Check your typeface usage for any font styles that didn't translate properly, especially if your PowerPoint file originated on someone else's Mac with different font files.

Warning

• PowerPoint files that originate under the Windows version of the program usually use slide sizes based on screen resolutions that aren't common on the Mac. Check translated presentations for document dimensions.

Resources (1)

• iWork '09: The Missing Manual; Josh Clark

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Keynote 8 for Mac hasn’t reached the apex of its perfection, but Apple clearly didn’t have a wishlist of features to push it forward. The latest release for Mac brings it up to date with simultaneous releases of Keynote for iOS and Pages (Mac and iOS) and Numbers [Mac and iOS].

Keynote 8: Getting up to speed

We haven’t reviewed Keynote since version 6.5.3 in 2015, so it’s worth a look of what’s changed since then. Apple continued to push forward development through incremental releases from 7.0 to 7.3, which restored a number of features that we found lacking in 6.5.3.

Version 7.0 added a beta of collaborative real-time editing. Version 7.1 offered up one of the most significant changes: an Object List that made creating complicated builds vastly easier, as selecting and ordering items in the build was a frustrating process that lead to literal head-to-desk slamming. It’s still weaker than other presentation apps, and I’ve spent hours moving items around to create the right flow—but at least now, it’s feasible. In version 7.2, navigation and marking up a document in text (with replies and threaded comments) became far better.

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Keynote 8: New features

In Keynote 8, Apple added a small list of features that make it easier to move presentations between iOS and macOS. Also, there's more consistency with tools and expectations across Keynote, Pages, and Numbers on both platforms. That should reduce any friction as you work among apps and across platforms, even if nothing else has changed.

Image galleries are the only new interactive feature, letting you insert and label images in a frame that can be paged through manually or as an auto-advance slideshow. You can preview this while setting it up, and then advance through the images while presenting or set it to run. Creating a pseudo-slideshow through builds in version 7.3 was maddening; now, it’s just a drag and drop process. For automatic or manual playback, you can set one of three kinds of builds through the images: Appear, Dissolve, and Move In. For automatic playback, you can set the duration between images. This is a very welcome addition.

Media selection remains extremely laggy, even on a 2017 iMac. While I have an iCloud Photo Library of over 37,000 images, they’re stored at full resolution on this iMac, and it took minutes to bring up the initial selection view. If you switch away from Keynote, at least the load progress is not lost (as it is in Pages 7 for Mac). The media selector is a system-wide function, but it’s readily apparent how poorly optimized it is in a program designed to use images.

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Keynote now offers donut charts, a missing option despite the many other kinds of charts available in this and other Apple productivity apps. As with all the updates to apps, there are new shapes of all sorts you can insert and then edit to customize. Support for real-time collaborative editing for Keynote files shared via the Box document service is now included here as in all the productivity apps on both platforms.

Apple also added a way to reduce the file size of presentations, something useful when you’re dragging in full-resolution images or movies that you’re using just a portion of. With File > Reduce File Size, you can opt to downsample, using Apple’s versions of more efficient HEIF image and HEVC video compression, and clip video and audio to store just the portions used in the file. Be wary, though, that you don’t create a presentation that needs to run on an older Mac that can’t display these file formats.

Bottom line

Keynote 8 for macOS is not much more than a maintenance release, despite inserting the suite-wide image gallery feature as a slideshow option. Even though it’s a mature app that’s generally good to use, Apple should be considering a roadmap for improvement of its weakest elements, and pushing forward with new modes and better processes for building and revising interactions.

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• Keynote 8 (Mac)

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  The latest release of Keynote for macOS brings little to the table, letting Keynote show its signs of age.

  Pros

  • Stability in a relatively mature program
  • Gallery option allows easy creation of timed slideshows
  • Better feature parity and compatibility across apps and platforms

  Cons

  • No effort to move the app significantly forward