Hi Craig,
To expand on what Fred said...
The most recent PowerPoint viewer for Mac was made for PowerPoint 98,
which
means it is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The viewer is still
available
and works on PowerPCs. In OSX it requires classic. It does not sup****t
any
new features added since Office 98 was released, but it will open and play
as best it can any file that is in .ppt or .pps file format.
Here's the link to the viewer.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/downl
oad/office98/powerpoint98viewer.xml&secid=20&ssid=7&flgnosysreq=False
It's really quite bizzare that Microsoft wants Mac users to use OpenOffice
to view PowerPoint presentations. Usually Microsoft is accused of doing
everything in its power to keep customers "in the fold" by providing
complete solutions, but for newer versions of Microsoft Office they are
relying on Sun Microsystem's free OpenOffice product, which is a direct
competitor to Microsoft Office. It's not just giving Sun a "foot in the
door" it's like an open invitation to take the house over.
Granted, OpenOffice isn't as good as PowerPoint, has some compatibility
problems, looks sorta ugly and doesn't sup****t add-ins or visual basic,
but
for many people it's "good enough" to substitute for Microsoft Office -
plus
it's free.
-Jim
Quoting from "Craig Roberts" <Somewhere @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lindstrom Minnesota USA>, in
article O1ZcWinRIHA.280@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on [DATE:
> Is there a Powerpoint Viewer app for the Macintosh? I have Office 2003
> installed on a PC and would like to share a presentation with my Mac
based
> friends. They don't have Office.
>
> thanks.
>
> Craig
>
>
--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info http://mvp.sup****t.microsoft.com/
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