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[Marcy]

Help. My middle school child needs to do a presentation for school. I
downloaded the powerpiont viewer one time to look at emails that require
this program.
But, what i want to do is help her prepare a presentation that can be opened
up with powerpoint (or whatever program the teacher has in her classroom pc)
for a grade.
What program is needed to create this presentation. I dont have MS Word. I
have Corel word perfect 10. I also have open office (free)2.0 version.
Is there another free one that we can use, if those are too complicated or
does Microsoft have one that is within the PPt viewer program?
We need to "save" whatever project she uses to make this presentation in a
way to be able to be opened up from most programs-
we want sound effects as part of it too as well as a few visual ones where
the words fade, rotate, etc.
Hope you can help. Thanks in advance.

 

[My News]

Marcy - You might find it useful to look at the Student Offers do with
Office package. I found it the route to go when purchasing and it was about
a quarter of the price then

As regards your main question I will let others much more experienced than i
will ever be answer you,

Leo

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Help. My middle school child needs to do a presentation for school. I
downloaded the powerpiont viewer one time to look at emails that require
this program.
But, what i want to do is help her prepare a presentation that can be opened
up with powerpoint (or whatever program the teacher has in her classroom pc)
for a grade.
What program is needed to create this presentation. I dont have MS Word. I
have Corel word perfect 10. I also have open office (free)2.0 version.
Is there another free one that we can use, if those are too complicated or
does Microsoft have one that is within the PPt viewer program?

We need to "save" whatever project she uses to make this presentation in a
way to be able to be opened up from most programs-
we want sound effects as part of it too as well as a few visual ones where
the words fade, rotate, etc.

Most programs don't support this kind of thing ... my accounting program would
feel downright silly if it were forced to play animations! Most undignified.
;-)

If you need the teacher to be able to open the file, you'll want to start by
finding out what programs the teacher has available.

Do you have Corel's office suite (including Corel Presentations) or just Word
Perfect? Presentations can, I believe, save to a PPT file, which PowerPoint or
the PPT viewer could open.

The PPT viewer is just that ... it lets you view PPT files, not create them.

Does the presentation program in Open Office (Impress is the name, no?) let you
save as PowerPoint? Try File, Save As and see what options you have.

 

[Marcy]

Thanks Steve, Yes the Corel word perfect 10 program I have (OEM) came with
the presentations feature in it and has a feature called "show on the go"
which supposedly one can save it using that>then it is able to execute on
any pc. But, this feature is not working and have tried to apply any patches
availble, with no luck. Posted at the corel forums and am waiting for more
things to try.
But, since time is short, I decided to try the open office (Impress) and
there WAS an option to save in PPT, which I just tried and it did work.
However, it said that by saving it in ppt form, that some features may not
save correctly, etc. BUT that wasnt the case for a test presntation that I
just made up to try the program.
thanks and I will read your links on pptools and pptfaq that you have
included in your last reply.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Try also saving from WP Presentations as a PPT. I'm pretty sure it'll do that.

Hmm. Come to think of it, one of the MS Internet Explorer MVPs (Jan Ilaqua)
had to do a lot of WP Presentations to PPT conversions a while back. You might
try to look her up if you decide to go that route.

But if Impress saves a PPT that works, go for it.