iWork® '09 For Dummies®

Chapter 19. Presenting a Keynote Presentation

In This Chapter

• Using the Presenter Display

• Controlling your presentation with your iPhone

Unlike Numbers spreadsheets and Pages documents, Keynote presentations aren't designed to be given to someone to read or study: You're a key component of your Keynote presentation. Sometimes you prepare a presentation for someone else to use or vice versa. But most of the time, you run the show, stage center. Fortunately, Keynote has a host of tools that make it easy for you to fulfill the dual roles of presentation author and presenter. This chapter gives you an overview of those tools.

Choosing Your Presentation Options

The earliest presentation software tools used the computer monitor to display slides. Often, a second monitor, frequently a projection TV, was connected. Keynote lets you select your primary display (usually the projection TV) and configure the other one with timers and presenter's notes.

With the advent of iWork '09, you have another way of working with Keynote — at least if you have an iPhone. You can download Keynote Remote, an app for iPhone and iPod Touch. It's available from the App Store in iTunes and currently costs $0.99. You can use the iPhone or iPod Touch, both of which communicate wirelessly with the computer running Keynote, to control the slides. Another wrinkle in this scenario is that speaker's notes can be visible along with the slide on your iPhone or iPod Touch. This means you have two displays for presenter's notes ...