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Office Suite Smackdown: PowerPoint 2008 vs. Keynote '08

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Is Apple's iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Franklin N. Tessler—our go-to expert on presentation programs—to use PowerPoint 2008 and Keynote '08 to create the same project, progressing from the basics (data entry and formatting) to more-advanced features. Our questions: Which program is better at each stage of the job? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Which jobs (and which users) require which tool?

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I used another clever Keynote feature, Smart Builds, to show Earth and some of the other planets in our solar system with a turntable effect. With each mouse click, the next planet rotated into view as the others dimmed and receded into the background, an effective way to show more pictures than I could fit comfortably on one slide.

Along with the animations feature, these are my favorite things about Keynote '08.

I am constantly complemented for the quality and design of my Powerpoint presentations. Little do they know that it isn't because I know PPT kung fu, but just because Keynote makes designing great presentations easy.

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