Powerpoint plugin

T

The Wolf

I thought at one time there was an plugin that played .pps on a mac if
you don't have PowerPoint.

Does anyone know if that is still available and send a link please?

I can't find it.

Thank you.
 
J

Jim Gordon

Hi,

In addition to the suggestion from CyberTaz you can give TonicPoint
viewer a try:
http://tonicsystems.com/products/viewer/

If you are adventuresome and don't care about quality you can also use
OpenOffice (several flavors available) to play PowerPoint presentations:
http://www.openoffice.org/ among other sources.

However, as CyberTaz points out, nothing displays PowerPoint quite as
nicely as PowerPoint itself. If this is for a one-time only show you
could install the free test drive of Microsoft Office, which includes
PowerPoint. The 30-day test drive may be already installed on your
computer if it is fairly new.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004

If you're going to be dealing with presentations on a regular basis
consider purchasing PowerPoint. You can purchase PowerPoint without the
rest of office. If you go to school or are a parent of a student you
might qualify for the Student and Teacher edition of Microsoft Office,
which is the least expensive way to purchase the product.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
 
J

Jim Gordon

Yes! But be sure to search PowerPoint help for the word QuickTime so you
will know what to expect when you use this feature.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
 
M

Michel Bintener

And another option: save the PowerPoint slides as pictures. If you don't
need the presentation to be dynamic, i.e. animated, you can use PowerPoint's
Save As feature to save each slide as an individual image file, such as PNG
or JPG. Also, you can use Mac OS X's Save as PDF function in the Print
dialogue to get a multipage PDF file containing all the slides, which is
perhaps more elegant. But as others have mentioned already, use the
QuickTime solution if you really need to have a presentation, not just a
series of static slides.


Yes! But be sure to search PowerPoint help for the word QuickTime so you
will know what to expect when you use this feature.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***
 
T

The Wolf

Thank you everyone for all the help!

Michel Bintener said:
And another option: save the PowerPoint slides as pictures. If you don't
need the presentation to be dynamic, i.e. animated, you can use PowerPoint's
Save As feature to save each slide as an individual image file, such as PNG
or JPG. Also, you can use Mac OS X's Save as PDF function in the Print
dialogue to get a multipage PDF file containing all the slides, which is
perhaps more elegant. But as others have mentioned already, use the
QuickTime solution if you really need to have a presentation, not just a
series of static slides.
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L

little_creature

Are you looking for this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e25cb1e5-209c-4a58-
b283-23e84b616477&DisplayLang=en

Here are mentioned few alternatives:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/browse_thread/thread/3faf76
7a192692a/dc04dc3ba20d2073?lnk=st&q=how+to+open+pps+on+mac&rnum=2&hl=en#dc04
dc3ba20d2073

Look at this from article above:
They're Microsoft PowerPoint files. The options I'm familiar with:

1. Buy PowerPoint as part of the Office suite. Quite expensive.
2. Buy Apple's iWorks suite, which as Keynote -- it can read them.
3. Download OpenOffice or NeoOffice. The interface isn't quite "Mac,"
but they work well and they're free. They're free, open-source
applications that mimic MS Office's functionality.

I'd start with NeoOffice/J; it won't require you to install anything
extra (OpenOffice requires the X11 environment). They're the same
underlying program.

Give it a try: http://www.neooffice.org/
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Yeah, I do that too. If you're working the group by Thread and you forget
to Mark the old ones As Read, you get this :)

For heavens sake, stop wasting your time with that brain-dead electronic
headless chicken web interface and get yourself a News Reader: it will make
this job SO MUCH easier for you.

Come to think of it, you already HAVE an excellent news reader: just start
Entourage :) See " Setting up Entourage (or Outlook Express) for
Newsreading" at http://word.mvps.org/mac/accessnewsgroups.html

Cheers

Sorry seems I keep doing all the time- got a bit lost in old messages
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--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
 
L

little_creature

Hi,
Tx for suggestion, however, I already use news reader (see the source of
email) but I'm lost case. There's no tread for me :-D.
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Oh right... I got confused by your email address :)

Yeah, I'm pretty much a lost cause too: I have replied to two-year-old
messages before now :)

Cheers


Hi,
Tx for suggestion, however, I already use news reader (see the source of
email) but I'm lost case. There's no tread for me :-D.


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e25cb1e5-209c-4a58>>>>
- http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/browse_thread/thread/3faf7>>>>
6
7a192692a/dc04dc3ba20d2073?lnk=st&q=how+to+open+pps+on+mac&rnum=2&hl=en#dc0>>>>
4
Click to expand...

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
 

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