Keynote

I frequently give presentations to different kinds of groups. In the past I've used Powerpoint as a backdrop. I'm a pretty restrained Powerpoint user. Few slides, few words, no animations or other distractions. Those are my rules.

This week I finally got around to trying Keynote. I'm hooked. It's more intuitive than Powerpoint and allows me to quickly create the kind of simple, elegant slides that I like. A presentation that would have taken me a couple of hours to design and tweak in Powerpoint came together in a few minutes. One simple but major difference: Templates look like they were created by a designer. They're simple, plain, elegant. When you build a presentation you don't feel like the content is competing with a graphics-laden background.

Why didn't I try this earlier?


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