Creating a PP presentation for a Mac

[Guest]

Question for you all. I have PP 03, and my wife and I have volunteered to
put a presentation together for a school presentation. I believe teh PC it
will be played on will be a Mac, however, and was curious which format to
save it in. Secondly, what is the difference between a .PPT and a .PPS file?

thanks a lot,
Nat

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Question for you all. I have PP 03, and my wife and I have volunteered to
put a presentation together for a school presentation. I believe teh PC it
will be played on will be a Mac, however, and was curious which format to
save it in. Secondly, what is the difference between a .PPT and a .PPS file?

Just save it normally. The formats are the same, PC and Mac.

A PPT and a PPS are identical other the PPT vs PPS file extension.

The differene is that Windows and PPT know to act a little differently when you
double-click one or the other. The PPT opens in PPT, edit mode. The PPS opens
in Slide Show mode.

You can simply rename a PPT with a PPS extension to change from one format to
the other.

 

[Zell]

ppt could only be viewed on the computer that installed PowerPoint,
pps can play on any windows os pc.
you could convert it to dvd, then play the dvd disc on Mac. or convert
it to flash, and up load the flash on a website that accept flash,
then watch it on web. the first method takes a long time (depend on
the size of your ppt, it could be tens of minutes or tens of hours),
the sencond only takes few minutes.
you could download the software from, http://www.sameshow.com, or,
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

ppt could only be viewed on the computer that installed PowerPoint,
pps can play on any windows os pc.

Hmm. That is incorrect. A ppt file and pps file are identical. Both can
play on any computer with PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer. Sometimes a
file ending in .pps will not be recognized (by double-clicking) on a
computer, even if PowerPoint is installed. However, opening PowerPoint and
then choosing Open from the File menu will usually get the file to open.
Just keep in mind that some of the features in one version might not be
available on other versions.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Guest]

Thanks to all who replied. You were all most helpful. I will just save as
the default PPT and will go from there. I need to find out which, if any,
version of PP the other user has on her Mac. IF not, will explore the PP
viewers available. Once again, much appreciated.

Nat