Powerpoint file viewer for OSX?

janmcijanmci
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I've been fruitlessly searching for a Powerpoint viewer for mac for my sister. The Microsoft version is completely ancient, and I'm surprised they don't have anything updated. I've installed Neooffice on her MacBook, but it's a bit overkill for just printing her lecture notes.



Anyone know of a shareware/freeware app that does the basics?



Thanks in advance

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    dutch peardutch pear Posts: 588member
    If she's in college/university: can't she get Office:mac for cheap through her school?

    That's how i got my office, it only costed me 20 euros (about 16 dollars).

    Otherwise keynote (part of iWork) should be able to open powerpoint files.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    janmcijanmci Posts: 10member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by dutch pear View Post


    If she's in college/university: can't she get Office:mac for cheap through her school?

    That's how i got my office, it only costed me 20 euros (about 16 dollars).

    Otherwise keynote (part of iWork) should be able to open powerpoint files.



    It's 170 euros here... even with the student discount
  • Reply 3 of 7
    abilsteinabilstein Posts: 61member
    Haven't used it myself, but Zoho Show claims to import PPT.



    http://show.zoho.com/



    Free and online.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    dmzdmz Posts: 5,775member
    bad post
  • Reply 5 of 7
    macwiz13335macwiz13335 Posts: 3member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by janmci View Post


    I've been fruitlessly searching for a Powerpoint viewer for mac for my sister. The Microsoft version is completely ancient, and I'm surprised they don't have anything updated. I've installed Neooffice on her MacBook, but it's a bit overkill for just printing her lecture notes.



    Anyone know of a shareware/freeware app that does the basics?



    Thanks in advance



    http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/4810



    It doesn't keep formatting very well, but is most likely good for lecture notes. Costs $20, which is probably overkill for something as simple as this, but it's the only thing I could find besides ThinkFree, which only works if you copy/paste a URL from the web.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    janmcijanmci Posts: 10member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by macwiz13335 View Post


    http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/4810



    It doesn't keep formatting very well, but is most likely good for lecture notes. Costs $20, which is probably overkill for something as simple as this, but it's the only thing I could find besides ThinkFree, which only works if you copy/paste a URL from the web.



    Thinkfree seems good - you can drag a file onto the widget and it opens it.



    Thanks for the suggestions all
  • Reply 7 of 7
    dchaidchai Posts: 1member
    Why not try neo office,

    it's free and it also replaces word and excel...
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