Calculation Fields in Keynote

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Calculation Fields in Keynote

I am trying to create a presentation in Keynote for my iPad. The goal is to hand my sales prospect my iPad and then I will control the presentation using my iPhone, easy enough.

I would like to then be able to have the prospect, during the live presentation, be able to manually enter a number and from that input using a simple multiplication display a result, again live during a presentation.

So the prospect enters "100" into a field within the presentation and it automatically multiplies that by a predefined factor of say "2" and displays the result of "200" in the presentation.

Is this even possible?

iPad Air, iOS 8.2, iPad Air 2 - WiFi only, 128GB Gold

Posted on Dec 30, 2015 7:59 AM

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Dec 30, 2015 12:07 PM in response to TegarKC

able to manually enter a number and from that input using a simple multiplication display a result, again live during a presentation.

Keynote is not able to do this.

The workaround is:

play Keynote until the live calculation is to be performed
switch to a spreadsheet application such as Numbers and perform the data entry and calculation
when completed, switch back to Keynote

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