Your presentation will be imported faster than you can say, “One more thing.”

Keynote may be the least-essential app in the iWork suite -- after all, most of us don’t give presentations at sold-out convention centers -- but we have to admit it’s a perfect fit for the iPad. More than Numbers and even Pages, the iPad’s wide, Multi-Touch screen naturally lends itself to Keynote’s guides, gestures, and general interface.

But with such creative possibilities at your fingertips, Keynote’s built-in themes are surprisingly lacking. None of them are all that inspiring, and some are borderline insulting. White? Black? Really? Should those even count?

Of course, you could spend hours designing your own templates with subtle design flourishes, fonts, charts, shadows, and textures. Or you could let Templates for Keynote Pro do it for you.

You’ll want to use Keynote to spice up those boring budget meetings, too.

Templates Pro couldn’t be any easier. Launching the app brings up six categories of themes -- Clear-Cut, Powerful, Classical, Playful, Innovative and Dynamic -- each containing five original template groups. Unlike Apple’s blueprints, which are little more than background and font suggestions, Templates Pro’s designs are true works of art. Each theme is chock-full of slides -- more than 500, according to developer emendo Media -- ranging from simple, yet stylish title cards to intricate tables, graphs, and dynamic layouts.

After choosing your pattern, you’ll need to send it to Keynote before you can start working on your presentation. Even with a couple dozen fairly intricate slides, exporting is a snap, and nothing gets lost in translation. Importing takes just a few seconds, and everything is customizable; slides can be deleted, reorganized, added, and combined -- though the last part is the least elegant part of the process. To use slides from two different themes, you’ll need to import each package of templates, and then cut and paste between them.

Ah, the perfect slide to chart our Keynote usage growth.

The bottom line. Templates Pro is so good, in fact, it actually taught us quite a bit about Keynote. Granted, we were hardly professionals, but playing with the pre-made slides showed us just what the app can do: Even if you don’t use Template Pro’s charts and tables in your presentations, tooling around with them are as good as any guidebook. So, until they create Templates Pro for Pages and Numbers, we’ll be looking for ay excuse to use Keynote. Like our next staff meeting.