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excalibur313
Feb 23, 2006, 10:50 AM
Wouldn't it be fantastic if you could control powerpoint presentations using this remote? I drool over the idea of pressing the menu button and one of the options on that screen that pops up is a list of all my power point presentations. Is this at all possible?


Krevnik
Feb 23, 2006, 10:55 AM
I do know Keynote is supposed to support the remote, and it might be possible to use it within PowerPoint the same way, just try it. ;)
excalibur313
Feb 23, 2006, 01:50 PM
I do know Keynote is supposed to support the remote, and it might be possible to use it within PowerPoint the same way, just try it. ;)

I can't until my macbook comes so I thought that maybe someone else had made progress. :)
arcsbite
Feb 23, 2006, 05:51 PM
Wouldn't it be fantastic if you could control powerpoint presentations using this remote? I drool over the idea of pressing the menu button and one of the options on that screen that pops up is a list of all my power point presentations. Is this at all possible?

Just tried it on my intel iMac for ya, powerpoint is none responsive to the remote :(
kretzy
Feb 23, 2006, 05:54 PM
Hopefully the Microsoft Mac unit will take advantage of the remote and integrate it with PP.
chaosbunny
Feb 23, 2006, 06:25 PM
As far as I know Keynote can open and run any Powerpoint presentation. You could try to remote control your pp presentations via Keynote with the free iWork 06 trial version that comes with you mpb.
kretzy
Feb 23, 2006, 06:29 PM
As far as I know Keynote can open and run any Powerpoint presentation. You could try to remote control your pp presentations via Keynote with the free iWork 06 trial version that comes with you mpb.

Good lateral thinking there!
arcsbite
Feb 23, 2006, 06:32 PM
now THAT one works lol.
excalibur313
Feb 24, 2006, 12:14 AM
So it works with keynote? Fantastic!
nosser
Feb 24, 2006, 02:57 AM
haha just tried kenote with a pp presentation and yeah it works. That is sweet!
R.Youden
Feb 24, 2006, 03:16 AM
WHat we really need is to be able to use the remote that comes with the iPod and dock setup to be able to control more avaliable applications on your Mac. That would be a great selling point for the remote. When you use the remote with the new dock signals MUST be sent to the computer via the USB cable. I am sure someone could develop software to enable this, oh hang on they are called Apple!
Krevnik
Feb 24, 2006, 11:12 AM
Good lateral thinking there!

This was my thought as well, since I have both PP and Keynote. I am not sure what the guys would think of me using Keynote on the Redmond campus though. :eek:
jessica.
Feb 24, 2006, 11:20 AM
Speaking of using the Apple remote for other things...does anyone know if they can be used on the iM3 speakers? I don't know much about IR and such, but why not?