The objects remain connected as you move them around on the slide, making it easier to create flowcharts. A new Connection Line command that’s common to all three iWork ’09 apps inserts a line between any two objects. Like the existing themes, they’re well designed, with pleasing layouts and color schemes. Keynote ’09 adds eight themes, bringing the total to 44. And since the reduction is one-way only-you can’t recover data once it’s gone-it’s a good idea to keep the original files handy just in case. You can apply the process to media files one-by-one or globally. Although you can distribute and align objects using existing menu commands, the guides are often quicker and easier.Īnother new option slims Keynote presentations by eliminating unused data from inserted media, including resized images and trimmed movies. Similarly, relative sizing guides pop up when two or more aligned objects have the same height or width. New object relative spacing guides, which you activate in Keynote’s Rulers preferences dialog, appear when you drag an object so that it’s the same distance from two other objects.
If the built-in formats aren’t enough, you can create custom ones that give you precise control over how data appears, including the ability to set conditions for when to apply a particular format.
Numeral System, another new option, displays cell values in any number system from base 2 to 36. Duration formats numbers as units of time-you drag a slider to set the units that you want to display, from milliseconds to weeks. From then on, double-clicking on the equation in Keynote opens MathType automatically.Įxtra table cell formats round out the changes to Keynote’s data display options. A new command in the Insert menu inserts a placeholder onto the current slide and launches MathType if it’s not already running. Keynote ’09 also explicitly supports Design Science’s Updating isn’t automatic, though-you have to click a button to refresh the chart in Keynote. Charts remain linked to their source data, so changes in Numbers are reflected in Keynote. Keynote ’09 lets you display error bars as a fixed value, percentage, standard error, or standard deviation, and you can show trendlines (and the equations used to derive them) on bar, line, and scatter plots.Īnother new option lets you copy charts from Numbers and paste them into Keynote.
Keynote’s expanded options for axis and series formatting are even more valuable for presenting numeric data. Alas, you can’t apply them to 2-D charts. Keynote also adds four creative builds that change a graph’s perspective as it appears on the screen. Keynote ’09 offers several new ways to display numerical information, including cylindrical bar graphs and mixed bar and line charts. And even though they’re not selected, the motion paths for the other planets are still visible. It’s easy to define a motion path for Mars based on an elliptical shape. Another handy addition to the Format menu lets you copy animation from one object and paste it on to another.
That’s often much simpler than drawing a path from scratch. When you apply the command to two selected objects, the shape in the back disappears and turns into a motion path for the object in front. That makes it easier to coordinate the intermediate and final positions of multiple moving objects on a slide.Ī clever new command in the Format menu lets you use one object as the motion path for another. Now, option-clicking the red diamond in any object with a motion path keeps the path and ghosts visible until you click the diamond again. In Keynote ’08, you could display a moving object, its path, and ghosted versions of its waypoints and destination, but the path and ghosts disappeared as soon as you clicked anywhere else on the slide.