Guest shirley1874 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 First, I don’t know if someone else posted the similar topic before, but I have searched the forum and didn’t find the similar posts.My trouble is: I have a friend on a Macintosh and no PowerPoint program. Can I somehow save my presentation which includes some animation so that I can share it with my friend although he doesn’t have PowerPoint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Caveat - I've not used this, but know people who have, so a second hand recommendation. Open Office - free and MS Office compatible programmes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berry120 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 A vote for openoffice here. Unless you've got strange templates going on it usually preserves everything really well, and it's free! I abandoned MS Office a while back for it - student budget and all - and it's been fine :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstonChief Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I'll vouch for OpenOffice. Switched to it a few years ago and I'm always finding new little things to make life easier. It looks very similar to the older Office variants (2003 and before) so its shouldn't be difficult to switch unless you're used to 2007. From Impress (The PowerPoint equivalent) you can export in a multitude of formats, notably Flash (.swf) which is handy for showing your presentations on most operating systems. I do remember there being a way to export from PowerPoint to a .exe format self-running presentation, however it's been many moons since I needed to use this feature so I'm unsure if it's been ported to the 2007 version. If you both want to work on the presentation collaboratively then you'll need to be running the same software at each end. There is a version of PowerPoint for mac out there, but with some differences. These are detailed Here. Unless your friend fancies forking out for the mac version, OpenOffice is probably the best bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Langfeld Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Rather than OO.org, it may be worth looking at NeoOffice. It's based on OpenOffice but is specifically for OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 The week before last I was bitten by a few Mac PPoint produced presentations that wouldn't show some slides under 'Doze. They came up with an error something like "You can't show that TIFF file unless you install QuickTime". Well, I installed QT and they still didn't show. I've saved one of them to experiment with, but time hasn't yet permitted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 As the others have mentioned Open Office is worth a look. No personal experience, but I'm told it works. The other option is to open it in Keynote- Apples own Presentation Software. It opens .PPT files well, handles the transitions etc, and will report any errors that come up on import. We ran the whole of the Lambeth Conference on it for three weeks without any known issues, and a lot of positive comments regarding transitions etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart91 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 The other option is to open it in Keynote- Apples own Presentation Software. Last time I looked, Apple were offering a 28 day trial of Keynote which was completely unrestricted until the time period ran out - so the demo could be enough to get you through a show... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo7744 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 If Keynote could be the answer, then Apple's version of "Office" is only £55. Their version of Excel, Word and PP Or Office for Mac is only £99.95. Not a massive outlay if it works for you. Just another thought. If you have an apple store near you, take some PC powerpoint presentations on a disk or thumb drive along and speak to the staff there about trying out Keynote and see if it does what you need it to and acts the same. Same with Office for Mac. To book a pre-booked appointment go to www.apple.co.uk and it has links to find your nearest store, from there you can book a timed appointment with a "Genius" who will be only more than happy to help you and answer any questions you might have Jimbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Although OpenOffice presentation is good, its not quite PowerPoint, and in particular, custom anaimations dont wortk the same. What he really needs is Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac, and the free PowerPoint viewer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dream-party Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Although OpenOffice presentation is good, its not quite PowerPoint, and in particular, custom anaimations dont wortk the same. It is trouble to run PowerPoint on Mac. you can convert your PowerPoint to DVD format with animations remaind.The program PPT to DVD can helpfree version http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt_to_dvd/download.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shirley1874 Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 It is trouble to run PowerPoint on Mac. you can convert your PowerPoint to DVD format with animations remaind.The program PPT to DVD can helpfree version http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt_to_dvd/download.html OK,Thanks dream party,I'll check it. ^^^^^^^ THANKS!^^^^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sony Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I recommend OpenOffice! Been using it for PowerPoint and other things for at least 5 years now, never had a problem! I give Open Office an A+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_the_LD Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 I have open office on my mac. However, I have the new beta version (3. something) as this supports OSX in a better way. As in it supports the Aqua GUI. I found the non beta version harder to use as there was allsorts going on! (Although I may have done something wrong being new to macs and all). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilT Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 The week before last I was bitten by a few Mac PPoint produced presentations that wouldn't show some slides under 'Doze. They came up with an error something like "You can't show that TIFF file unless you install QuickTime". Well, I installed QT and they still didn't show. I've saved one of them to experiment with, but time hasn't yet permitted. This problem is something to do with the original presentation author (using a mac) copying and pasting images into the presentation rather than 'insert image' or whatever. AFAIK there's no way to solve this problem other than getting the original author to knock up another presentation using the 'proper' method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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