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Find the missing Keynote 2 animations in Keynote 3 Apps
The new version of Keynote (found in iWork '06) adds some great features, including some new transitions between slides and builds for the way content enters a slide.

Curiously, this new version seems to omit the Twirl, Motion Dissolve, Grid, Falling Tiles, Drop, and Burn transitions, and the Drop and Twirl build effects. However, you can easily get them back. In Keynote 3, open the preferences and select the General tab (if it's not already selected), and you'll see a box at the bottom that says:   Animations: include obsolete animation choices. Put a check in the box next to this, and the missing transitions and build effects return. Why they consider them to be "obsolete," I have no clue!

[robg adds: I noticed the missing effects when I ran through iWork during Expo, but I didn't notice the checkbox, so I felt it worth sharing. It seems quite odd to include the animations themselves, but then hide their availability behind a checkbox marked "obsolete."]
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Find the missing Keynote 2 animations in Keynote 3
Authored by: GregLink on Jan 25, '06 10:14:38AM

I'd guess it has to do with file type compatability. Most importantly, I'd guess that Powerpoint doesn't have an easy analog to those specific animations, meaning that exported files wouldn't work as expected. Hence, by making 'basic' users less likely to see those animations, they make Powerpoint compatability appear a lot better. For users smart enough to enable those animations, well of course they don't export well - and you're smart enough to know that, and make the trade-off in an informed fashion.

Again, this is just a guess, as my copy of Keynote 3 has yet to arrive.



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Find the missing Keynote 2 animations in Keynote 3
Authored by: adrianm on Jan 25, '06 11:16:38AM
Having had a quick look at these "obsolete" effects, I'd hazard that they are just considered tacky, in much the same way that blink and marquee html tags are considered tacky.

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Tacky? Just look at the new stuff...
Authored by: surf on Jan 25, '06 01:00:29PM

If something is to be considered tacky, then it rather be the new "great" marble and wood textures and the obfuscating 3D-graphs.

These were by far the low points of any Steve's keynote ever.



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Thanks a MILLION!
Authored by: michaelmays on Dec 12, '10 11:37:27AM
I feel like an idiot for not having noticed this before. I'm up to Keynote 09 now and have never noticed this. I've been quietly reaming Apple up one side and down the other the past three years for "dropping" these transitions (esp. motion dissolve)... how nice it is to know they were there after all! Thanks for making this info known. Very helpful!

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