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Use Web View in Keynote '08 Smart Builds Apps
One nice Keynote and Pages feature is the incredibly useful Web View, which allows you to easily drop a website into your presentation, even setting it to auto-update. This can be far more elegant than screen shots.

However, there is no obvious way to integrate Web Views into Keynote '08's Smart Builds, which allow you to quickly create multi-image animations on a slide. A simple cut and paste trick however, does seem to work:
  • In Keynote (iWork '08), choose Insert » Web View.
  • In the Inspector, enter the URL of the site you wish to display.
  • Your site will appear in the Web View panel on the slide. Ensure that it is selected (square resize handles should be visible) and choose Edit » Cut, or press Command-X.
  • Choose Insert » Smart Build, and then choose an effect type.
  • A grey transparent panel appears and a dotted box labeled "Drop Image Here." Select the box, and it should highlight with a yellow dotted border.
  • Choose Edit » Paste, or press Command-V, and your Web View appears in the Smart Build.
  • Continue this process to insert multiple live web sites into the Smart Build.
Note that you cannot select the Web View and change its parameters in the Inspector once it's been pasted into the Smart Build. You'll need to go through the cut and paste trick to make changes to it, such as edit the URL or to change the live updating setting.

Perhaps the next version of Keynote will allow a more explicit way of combining and editing Web Views and Smart Builds?
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Use Web View in Keynote '08 Smart Builds
Authored by: kbradnam on Nov 19, '07 11:32:43AM

You mention that Web View is also available in Pages, but I don't see this (no Web View option in the 'Insert' menu, and no mention of this in the Help).



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Use Web View in Keynote '08 Smart Builds
Authored by: mercurious on Nov 19, '07 12:31:09PM

Correct, the reference to "Pages" shouldn't be in there. Web Views and Smart Builds are Keynote features.

Web Views and Smart Builds may also be supported in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in Keynote iWork '08



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NOT Leopard Only
Authored by: cycomachead on Nov 19, '07 03:56:48PM

As iWork '08 runs on Tiger the icon needs to be changed.



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Use Web View in Keynote '08 Smart Builds
Authored by: michaelmichael on Nov 20, '07 05:24:19AM

This hint isn't exactly what it seems.

Keynote's Smart Builds can only contain pictures. What the hint describes is inserting an image of a web view. You'll notice that it never updates - because it's just an image.

You'll see the same behavior when pasting other Keynote objects into a Smart Build - try tables or charts. You'll get images of those objects in the Smart Build.



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