How do I get Power point?

elona

DD (17) and DD (12) have just informed me that they need Powerpoint for their school and sixth form work!

This may be a silly question but how do we get this? Is it a disc we buy or a programme we download?

Do not want to just walk into a large "** World" like a lamb to the slaughter!

Any advice for a technophobe ( and Parent) would be appreciated.

Browntoa

download open office for free

http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html

it has a powerpoint bit

http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html

it can also work in Excel and Word format

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Browntoa

download link here

http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.2/index.html

Download OpenOffice.org

elona

I did not expect a reply that fast!

Thank you so much.:A

Browntoa

no problem, its a good bit of software, fully supported on the site and continually improved

Omertron

If they only need to view powerpoint files, you can download the microsoft powerpoint viewer HERE from microsoft.

That'll also check that what's created by open office will also work at school (Not that I imagine it won't!)

Browntoa

open office opens and saves files in powerpoint format

no need to check

punkrocket

OpenOffice rocks! Anyone considering buying Microsoft Office from the likes of PEE CEE World would be set back in the region of £90 for a cheap Student edition, more if the salesman told them they needed the small business edition!

OpenOffice does everything just as well if not better and is fairly well compatible with the word, excel and powerpoint documents created using Micro$oft Office, and best of all its FREE!

martindow

Another vote for Open Office!

krishna

Browntoa wrote:

open office opens and saves files in powerpoint format

no need to check

Actually it is worth checking as sometimes there can be problems with the formatting (visual formatting as opposed to file format). Same kind of issues one gets between Open Office and Word or Firefox and Internet Explorer.

OK_Sauce

krishna wrote:

Actually it is worth checking as sometimes there can be problems with the formatting (visual formatting as opposed to file format). Same kind of issues one gets between Open Office and Word or Firefox and Internet Explorer.

This is also true between older and newer versions on Powerpoint itself, ie the 95/2000/XP versions.