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Keynote is Not Compatible With Lion!

I upgraded to Lion a few days ago. Keynote now has slowed down significantly and sometiime hangs, My business relies on Keynote being usable. When will this be fixed?

Keynote-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 24, 2011 8:02 PM

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Aug 4, 2011 6:29 AM in response to Cal Man

Using Keynote and Lion (upgraded). The Presentation runs, but while editing there are annoning problems. Often keynote stops to react on input from the keyboard, interactions with the mouse are possible. All other applications still interacts with the keyboard. A workaround is switching to an other application, make an textinput with the keyboard an comes back. Most times Keynote interacts with the keyboard as expected. Seems to be a problem with the respond to the FirstResponder.


Also annoying is the menu to change the color: Editing Text: higlight, selcet the color from the menubar: "Farben anzeigen" a pop-up appears, I can choose the color. But if I then select for example an arrow I can't change it color. I must open the Menu "Farben anzeigen" again. Afterwards the same is vailid for the color of the text. Really annoying!

Aug 4, 2011 2:26 PM in response to Cal Man

I use keynote weekly to run workshops for Sr Leadership teams all over the country and rave about how great Keynote is! I just upgraded to Lion and what a disaster....I can only open a handful of presentations without crashing the entire program. This is a major issue for me!!! Is anyone else dealing with Keynote completely crashing when they try to open a presentation?

Aug 10, 2011 12:05 AM in response to Cal Man

Exactly the same problem here, keynote freeze every time when I move something with the mouse,when I do some effects with pics "freeze" (around 2, 3 minutes) change pics size "freeze", check preview in ispector "freeze", if i turn my head to see my door room "freeze". You have the idea... 😠

The better we can do is:



  1. open "Activy Monitor" app
  2. search for keynote not responding in red
  3. mark keynote app
  4. click "quick process
  5. then a windows appear telling you about send a report to Apple
  6. Send it

Aug 22, 2011 4:49 PM in response to Cal Man

I have read all the complaints about Keynote and Lion, and I am also suffering through the mess that has been created. Today, in front of 150 people when I tried to add a slide to my presentation (which in the past would have taken only a few seconds), my entire audience got to watch the pretty yet annoying Apple beach ball spin for 8 minutes.


SURELY Apple is working around the clock to come up with a fix, right????? Are those of us who have some to love the ease of Keynote and who have sung it praises far and wide going to have to go to clunky Power Point??? Or is ti freexing up too?


Is anyone from Apple reading these posts???? If so, can you PLEASE comment?????

Keynote is Not Compatible With Lion!

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