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by masklinn 5385 days ago
> But what would it look like? Consider Powerpoint.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/keynote/id361285480

> There needs to be a way to switch slide layout, add elements to the slide, work with animations & transitions, reorder slides, etc. And that's just some of the things that users will want to do all the time, on almost every slide. There's just no way to have that sort of rich interface in Metro.

See link. It's perfectly possible to do all that without a classical menu bar. Does it do everything the desktop version does? No. Can it do pretty much everything useful of it? Sure.

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>> Can it do pretty much everything useful of it?

No, not really. It's great for presenting, useful for making small tweaks to existing content, and painful for trying to create presentations that go beyond stuffing text in the provided templates.

This is also true of Numbers. Pages is pretty good though.