SeanAhern's Journal: Apple's Keynote Software

Okay, I'm trying to like this software. I have to give a presentation tomorrow (or maybe Friday) about the state of visualization where I work. All I want to do is make a slide with two columns of bulletted text.

It's not possible! You can't have more than one "text area" in a slide. You can put other text thingies on the slide, but they won't get bulletted formatting. You have to put in the bullets and tabs yourself. And forget about pagination and wrapping.

So I tried to use a table. Tables are very cool in Keynote. However, you can't have bullletted text. The control in the inspector that would let you choose bullets or numbering is just a blank gray box. Simply not possible. You're back to the same state that you are with text "thingies".

So then I tried to create what I wanted in Powerpoint and then bring it into Keynote. You casn do it, you can, as long as you don't want to edit the text once you bring it into Keynote. All of the wrapping and pagination has been done manually with tabs and spaces!

Something about this software feels not quite finished.

I'm trying to like this program. I really am...