Powerpoint question

[Ed62]

Is it Powerpoint or Power Point? Anyhow, one of our daughters gave us a beautiful presentation she made of our lives. We saw it on her computer, but can't see it on ours. The problem is we don't have Powerpoint. Is there a way to open the file without having the program?

Ed

[TB Roye]

Go online and do a search for a pps viewer and download it. You will be able to watch power point presentation with it. It is on the Microsoft website also www.microsoft.com/downloads

Tom

[crokett]

If you wanted you could also download Open Office for free. It is a full-on suite of sofware for creating and editing documents, spreadsheets, etc. Fully compatible with Power Point and the other MS Office suite products.

[Tom Slick]

It's none of the above. Microsoft calls it PowerPoint all one word with two capital Ps.

[Ed62]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check it out.

It's none of the above. Microsoft calls it PowerPoint all one word with two capital Ps.

The story of my life.

Ed

[LCHIEN]

I think google docs will play them for you, too if you only have a browser (like IE Explorer or Firefox).
But if you have a PC, I'd get the Microsoft viewer for free.

[Black wallnut]

If you wanted you could also download Open Office for free. It is a full-on suite of sofware for creating and editing documents, spreadsheets, etc. Fully compatible with Power Point and the other MS Office suite products.

Not exactly correct. I once had, about a year ago, open office.org software. I found that their program was not compatible with PowerPoint. I solved that by buying MS Office suite.

Ed I have found the PPT viewer available from microsoft works.

[crokett]

Not exactly correct. I once had, about a year ago, open office.org software. I found that their program was not compatible with PowerPoint. I solved that by buying MS Office suite.

Ed I have found the PPT viewer available from microsoft works.

YMMV I guess. I have Open Office installed on my machine at work and MS Office v2003 on my laptop. I just finished working on the chart deck for a class I am teaching on Thursday. Been going back and forth between the software suites for the last several weeks. Working on it in OO today and wrapped it up/final edits tonight. No problems. Did you save the file in Open Office as its native format or did you save it as a PowerPoint .ppt file?