New text transitions – Anagram, Shimmer, Sparkle and Swing – morph text from one slide to the next. Magic Move is a transition that takes an object that's repeated over various slides and automatically changes its location, scale, opacity and/or rotation across consecutive slides. Instead, most of the effort has gone into new kinds of animations. So if you're were expecting some kind of layout automation like PowerPoint's Smart Art, think again. But most of the effort hasn't gone into giving Keynote a wealth of new bells and whistles. If you look hard, you'll notice other little improvements as well, such as a couple of new chart types and object builds. One drawback of this is that at top size, third-party Keynote themes look blurry. The Theme Chooser at the beginning has been improved to allow you to resize the theme thumbnails to see fonts, colours and textures more clearly using a slider at the bottom of the Chooser. And a couple of functions have disappeared: Web View and Flash Export. There are also two new menus: Play, to record and play slideshows and Share, for working with and exporting slideshows, and sending them by email in Keynote, PDF or PowerPoint format. Some of the modal-sheet dialogs, such as the Theme Chooser, have been replaced, some of the default icons in the toolbar changed. The experienced Keynote user won't notice too many changes at first: everything's just a little bit glossier, just a little bit more up-to-date than in Keynote 4.0.
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