In Keynote, make sure you’re in either Navigator or Light Table view (using the View menu); this trick won’t work in Outline or Slide Only view.Switch to the Finder, and select all the images you’d like to use to create your slides…. Keynote will then import your images—you may see a progress dialog, depending on the quantity and size of the selected images—and place each one into its own slide.By default, the images will be placed in front of any fields (title, subtitle, bullets) on the slides, so you’ll need to select each image and send it to the back to use the fields…. To do that, create a new slide, set its master to blank, and then drag in your source images.Not a huge hint, but if you’ve ever labored with importing images, or dragging them into already-created slides one-by-one, this method is a great timesaver.

The Folks over at “A New Mac Tip Every Day” have this killer tip for adding a web site to your keynote presentation and keeping the site up to date.”This is a great tip submitted by Dominic P…. But that is long, you’ll end up with an additional file on the desktop (it really adds up when you take a lot of screenshots) and the website in your Keynote presentation won’t update automatically…. To do it, you simply have to drag the small icon that is on the left side of the url in your web browser to the Keynote presentation.

So Keynote ’08 just came out and you want to know the good and the bad about it. Someone who knows his Keynote program well, Brian Peat of keynoteuser.com, gives us some facts and his thoughts on Apple’s eagerly anticipated Keynote upgrade.

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“I am a scientist, who often has to use Greek and astronomical symbols. Before, in Keynote, it was necessary to open Edit » Special Characters, find the character, and insert it. Blah. But while playing with the trial version of iWork ’08, I found an additional small feature in the Preferences of Keynote 4: the Auto-Correction tab.”

Together, Keynote and Pages were sold as the $79 iWork ’05 “suite.” Compared to the venerable AppleWorks, though, iWork was missing both spreadsheet and database applications. With the release of the still-$79 iWork ’08 (Best Current Price: $69.98), Apple has plugged the spreadsheet hole with Numbers.

Apple has just posted a free 30 day trial of iWork 08 for download. You can try out Pages, Keynote, and Numbers before you have to spend your hard earned cash for it. ENJOY!

Our order went in only minutes after the apple.com store returned online today. We will be looking at each application when it gets here and telling you about them all. In the mean time i will be linking to others reviews of the software.

I was looking around a TUAW.com today and came across this article from apple they linked to. I describes how iWork is used in a work setting. Go figure Apple wants us to use iWork at work.