Article:		Keynote Plays Ball with PowerPoint
Subject:		Command-Tab disabled. A wish for drawing.
Date:		2003-09-18 00:13:21
From:		orn-bob
When I was training customers as a product consultant I made heavy use of application switching during a slide show with PowerPoint. I would Alt-Tab to IE to live demo some feature of the (Web) application. PowerPoint has disabled Command-Tab, requiring the show to be stopped and restarted around the app switch. It's disruptive to the communications flow. There is just ONE drawing primitive I wish for in Keynote: an arbitrary polygon. With that I can get pretty far without the other fancy primitives PPT has. Importing from Illustrator 8 (I can't afford to upgrade) produces ugly graphics.

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• Command-Tab disabled. A wish for drawing.
  2003-09-18 11:00:48  Ian F. Darwin | [View]
  
  
  >PowerPoint has disabled Command-Tab, requiring the
  > show to be stopped and restarted around the app switch.
  > It's disruptive to the communications flow.
  
  Oddly, it's only disabled in Play Slideshow mode, which is when you'd want it most because it's full-screen. I agree with you, there should at least be a choice in Preferences (I hope you're reported this under Keynote->Provide feedback).
  
  >Importing from Illustrator 8 (I can't afford to
  > upgrade) produces ugly graphics.
  
  On that budget, you can also get pretty far with the free version of OmniGraffle (limited to 20 graphics, but a box and its label only count as one of the 20). www.omnigraffle.com
  
  -- Ian