

If he's got text, it's probably a quote that is short and to the point. Go into YouTube and find any (ANY) presentation by him and you'll see he has images, lots and lots of images, if he has a chart, he's got the emphasis of that chart already blocked out to force you to see what he wants you to see.

Reading text while the speaker is saying the same thing can be painful and even "DEATH BY POWERPOINT!" Take a hint from the very best presenter in history: Steve Jobs. Keynote (and even PowerPoint) work best when you convey ideas on the screen, not text. There's a rule of thumb when doing presentations: "Every time the audience is reading the screen, they are not listening to you." And remember, folks read at different speeds so some people will feel rushed while others will get bored while waiting for the next slide. However, unless I'm not understanding what you've got in your PDF, this whole thing doesn't sound like a good idea. If you want to do your text formatting within Keynote, you can copy and paste the text or export to Word (and if you have to open the word document up in Pages) and copy and paste into Keynote and reformat as necessary. If you have a chart, take a screenshot of that and drag it into Keynote or simply redo it in Keynote's tables (which gives you complete control on formatting). You can do NO formatting this way - what you drag in is what you'll see. I'm going to answer this a couple of ways.įirst off, you can insert each page into a cell in Keynote, just drag it in.
