I am working my way thru KeyNote in IWork'06. While, in my view, the book is clearly written, it takes a lot of time and effort to get a place where you are comfortable working on your own presentation. I am new to KeyNote so this may not be true with others. I would say that I would have been lost with out this book.

Steve April
St. Louis, Mo

I needed to create a presentation for my Senior Seminar at college, and I wanted to take advantage of Keynote's superior media integration abilities, and not be yet another drone with bullet-pointed, standardized PowerPoint slides.

Don't let the thinness of this book deceive you; it contains everything you need to create a media-rich presentation. It covers seamless media importing from iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and even covers the basic functionality of the rest of the iLife and iWork products. Aren't comfortable only having one copy of your presentation? This book explains how to easily burn your presentation to a DVD-player-readable disc in case of an unforeseen projector problem. Any of your corporate buddies stuck with Windows? You'll learn how to export your Keynote presentation to a PowerPoint-ready .PPT file (although you will lose some of the cinema-quality transitions and build effects).

In short, I was very satisfied with what I learned, and thanks to the book can now whip up a Keynote presentation in a couple of minutes that outshines and outclasses others. I didn't have a use for the Pages section, so I cannot attest to that portion of the book, but as far as Keynote goes, this is an excellent manual.

Excellent book which guides you step by step trough all the gizmos and secrets of Keynote and Pages. It is easily and nicely written. I often use it as a reference when I forget something. Highly recommended.

This is a very good but not great book. I am new to this program and that may be a good part of my problem. I am sure that someone who has used the earlier version of this program would have a diferent opinion. As I continue to come back to the book I am certain I will continue to have fewer problems.

The book which is a tutorial, is comprehensive, with a lot of chatter inbetween actual instruction. The book is perhaps too informative, and would be better served if the actual tutorial key strokes were colored or emphasized to stand out clearly from the between line chatter. All in all in all if you use the book chapter by chapter, and read the chapter first you will benefit from the book. There is a lot of tutorial on iphoto. Thus knowledge of i photo prior to using this tutorial will be beneficial.