I have submitted an enhancement request to Apple to implement something similar to Albums in iPhoto and iTunes in Keynote. They don't respond to these kinds of things, of course, but I am wondering whether anyone knows of any third party solutions to this need. Here is the scenario:
I teach at a mega-university and like to make one Keynote file to cover an entire chapter of material, even when there are several lectures covering that chapter. I typically hide slides that don't pertain to a particular lecture and make a pdf for the students. However, I often put together Lecture 2 of Chapter X which includes several slides from Lecture 1 for review. This entails making different slides from the same file visible for the second lecture, third lecture, etc.
What I would LOVE to be able to do is assemble "albums" in Keynote where I select sets of slides for a particular lecture, in the same way that I can assemble albums in other apps. I suspect that this would extend way beyond my simple academic scenario. Suppose you work for a company and make marketing presentations that include "boilerplate" slides as well as company-specific slides for particular presentations; this capability would let you use most of the same slides for all presentations, and include customized data for each customer, without massive duplication and all of the updating issues that this implies.
Anyone ever hear of an app or add-on that would let you do something like this? Powerpoint can't do it either; good opportunity for Apple if they will listen...
Thanks
JEH
I teach at a mega-university and like to make one Keynote file to cover an entire chapter of material, even when there are several lectures covering that chapter. I typically hide slides that don't pertain to a particular lecture and make a pdf for the students. However, I often put together Lecture 2 of Chapter X which includes several slides from Lecture 1 for review. This entails making different slides from the same file visible for the second lecture, third lecture, etc.
What I would LOVE to be able to do is assemble "albums" in Keynote where I select sets of slides for a particular lecture, in the same way that I can assemble albums in other apps. I suspect that this would extend way beyond my simple academic scenario. Suppose you work for a company and make marketing presentations that include "boilerplate" slides as well as company-specific slides for particular presentations; this capability would let you use most of the same slides for all presentations, and include customized data for each customer, without massive duplication and all of the updating issues that this implies.
Anyone ever hear of an app or add-on that would let you do something like this? Powerpoint can't do it either; good opportunity for Apple if they will listen...
Thanks
JEH