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Nov 20, 2018 PowerPoint for Mac - program would disappear from my external display and only re-appear when I advanced after lingering on slides for longer periods of time Split from this thread. Hi Rena, I updated to version 16.19.0 (181109) yesterday and, unfortunately, continue. Typeface Troubles. When you build your PowerPoint presentation with the OpenType typefaces that ship with Microsoft Office, you rely on resources that both the Mac and the Windows editions of the software recognize and support. Paint for Mac Pro version is the realistic digital Mac paint program that is used to edit image, vector graphic design, free-form transformation, add filters, crop, alpha channel edit and more to paint on Mac. How to import Microsoft PowerPoint presentation into Apple Keynote This procedure works with.pptx and.ppt file formats. Launch Keynote (it’s in the Applications folder of your Mac).

Although Apple's never been one to concentrate too much on office software, they are known for their simple, attractive, and compelling presentations. That's why Apple's Keynote presentation software—the same app they use to make them—is easily our favorite on the Mac.

Keynote

Platform: Mac OS X
Price: $20
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Features

Apple-designed themes help you make attractive presentations quickly
Create 2D and 3D charts and chart animations
Typography features including smart quotes, ligatures, and automatic scaling
iLife Media Browser provides quick access to iLife photos, movies, and music
Instant Alpha tool for quick image background removal
Create free-form curves, shapes, and masks
Create text-based, object-driven, and several other types of transitions
The Magic Move tool helps you create sophisticated animations with simple transitions
Record narration with your presentations
Import a wide range of media types including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, EPS, PDF, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and MOV
Import and export Microsoft PowerPoint files
Export to iWeb, GarageBand, and iTunes
Send presentations as a Keynote, PowerPoint, or PDF files directly via email
Create interactive slideshows for kiosks
Presentation reviewers can make comments on slides

Where It Excels

Apple initially developed Keynote for Steve Jobs to give his presentations the way he wanted, rather than relying on third-party software to do the job. They quickly realized that they'd also created a marketable product, and so Keynote was born. While it was a little light on features in the beginning, Keynote has since become a wonderful app that maintains Apple's simple user experience while offering plenty of power to create the presentations you want to create.

You can see from the feature list above that Keynote can do quite a bit. You're able to create rich media presentations that you can give live or provide with pre-recorded narration for anytime viewing. The latest version of Keynote also offers great animation features for compelling slide transitions and graphs that do a little more than just sit there. Pretty much everything is very easy to use. You just edit what you want on a slide template and drag and drop any other elements you want to add. It makes creating attractive and compelling presentations very simple, and is a prime example of Apple doing what they do best.

Where It Falls Short

Although Keynote touts Microsoft PowerPoint compatibility, if you've used it you know it isn't exactly perfect. Importing a presentation isn't going to look identical to PowerPoint and exporting a Keynote presentation in PowerPoint format isn't going to retain all you created in Keynote, either. This is to be expected, somewhat, as they're different applications, but it's nonetheless frustrating to have a feature that doesn't work the way it should. If you're planning to send a presentation to a Windows user, better to export it in a non-editable format so they can wach it the way you intended rather than open it in PowerPoint and not necessarily get the full experience.

The Competition

Microsoft Powerpoint ($120-$280, as part of Microsoft Office) is the obvious competition, as it's long been the standard for creating presentations (after the death of Aldus/Adobe Persuasion, anyway). While there's nothing wrong with PowerPoint, it doesn't handle presentation creation quite as simply and elegantly as Keynote. It does, however, offer realtime collaboration and in-app photo editing.

FotoMagico ($140) isn't really an office-friendly piece of presentation software, but it does allow you to create rich photo presentations with some pretty compelling animations. Of course, it's very expensive.

Powerpoint Freeware Mac

Slideshow ($15) simply creates a slideshow out of media files. If that's all you really need to do, this app can do it, but for $5 more you could just buy Keynote instead and get a lot more.

There aren't really many presentation apps to choose from on the Mac, at least as far as we've seen, so if you're aware of a dark horse in the category or just have something you really like, please share it in the comments.

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