OSX Powerpoint viewer?

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boy_analogboy_analog
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I've been sent an attachment in .pps format -- this is powerpoint, right? For the life of me I can't find any up to date powerpoint viewers: Microsoft doesn't list any. There's a couple of old PP viewers about the place, bu they don't seem to be up to scratch.



Naturally, I'm not planning to get Keynote or Powerpoint just for a silly little attachment. Surely there's something else that will do the job!

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    I've been down this track in the past: the only real solution I've found is squirting the offenders to a convenient Windoze box... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    there is a viewer around. but I'm not sure if he only reads word files...or if he also reads presentations...



    keynote will read them too.
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  • Reply 3 of 6
    boy_analogboy_analog Posts: 315member
    More details please!



    BTW, the best solution that I can think of right now would be to install OpenOffice. Having used it on linux, I know that it can read powerpoint files. But I was really hoping for a much easier solution than this. The thought of the download plus installing X11 gives me the willies.
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  • Reply 4 of 6
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    I wonder what the chances are of having the PP importer chunklet taken out of Keynote as its own little tool? Since the Keynote XML file format is published...



    Wouldn't *that* just be a nice little turn of the screw to MS?
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  • Reply 5 of 6
    roborobo Posts: 469member
    Ahem. Isn't this what you need? It runs in Classic, but that's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick:



    <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/powerpoint98viewer.asp"; target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/powerpoint98viewer.asp</a>;



    -robo
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  • Reply 6 of 6
    boy_analogboy_analog Posts: 315member
    [quote]Originally posted by robo:

    <strong>Ahem. Isn't this what you need? It runs in Classic, but that's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick:



    <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/powerpoint98viewer.asp"; target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/powerpoint98viewer.asp</a>;



    -robo</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Yep, that worked. Thanks!



    I don't know why I didn't find it. I truly ruly did search the M$ site....
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