G'Day 1parkpointer,
Just as there is Microsoft Office, there is also Star Office by Sun
Microsystems.
The core of Star Office is a suite of Programs known as Open Office.
Now Open Office is FREE - yes FREE.
The suite consists of programs that have a VERY FAIR degree of
compatibility with Microsoft Office. These include:
Writer (Word)
Calc (Excel)
Impress (PowerPoint)
Using Impress, and 'Save As...' 'Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt)' will result in a
very reasonable PowerPoint Presentation.
(Similarly for Writer and Calc ...)
The suite is not as 'complete' as Microsoft Office, but you can (for example)
insert MS Clipart (you need to locate it on your PC), your own Pictures, charts
and various drawing shapes etc, just like PowerPoint.
I won't be giving up Microsoft Office anytime soon, but I always have Open
Office installed - I have a number of correspondents, clients and students that
use Open Office/Star Office and I have inter-converted numerous Word docs
without any real problems.
Open Office also has an excellent 'Export as PDF ...' facility.
You can download open Office 2.04 at:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html.
Good Luck!
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"1parkpointer" wrote in message
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Hi,
My daughter is taking a science class, in which the students have an
assignment to make a power point presentation. The classroom computer
has the power point program on it, and the students share the computer
& program for their assignment. The teacher suggested the students
could do their work at home, but we do not have power point on our home
computer.
Can Word be used in some way to make a presentation that can be saved
to a flash drive and then inserted into the power point program that
the students have assigned to them at school? Any help would be
appreciated!!
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1parkpointer
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