OT: What is the best free Power Point Viewer?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>On 6/4/2010 4:40 AM, John Esak wrote:
>> A friend needs a .pps reader. I have it by virtue of it being in Office.  I
>[...]
>> I know Open Officxe does it all supposedly... Does it do Power Point... Just
>> the reading not creating even.
>[...]
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>I know you already found the Microsoft PPT reader, but I can tell you that 
>OpenOffice.org 3.2 can read Powerpoint 97/2000/XP/2007 files, and can also 
>write 97/2000/XP files.

I have Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac as well as OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice
(native Mac version of OpenOffice.org without some bugs introduced recently
in the OO-calc :-), and Keynote from the $80.00 Apple iWork suite.  In my
experience with PPT files the native Microsoft version can be considerably
faster than the OpenOffice.org PPT program.

OpenOffice.org and Keynote may or may not play the audio part of slide
shows.  In one I just tried to compare the three, the audio played on
Powerpoint and Keynote, but not in NeoOffice.  Clicking on the screen
instead of just letting the slide show play was fastest in Keynote as it
skipped the slide transitions, and an order of magnitude slower in
NeoOffice.

I did these tests on a 2.66GHz Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM, running Snow
Leopard.

Bill
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