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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!! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._WordToPPT.asp
"1parkpointer" wrote in message ... 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!! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Hi Tom, Thank you! I suppose I should have said that the copy of Word we use is Word97. After I copied the pages from the officehelp web site, read at the top of the pages that the article applies to MS Word 2002 & MS PowerPoint 2002. I do not know which version of PowerPoint is at her school, and I don't know anything about PowerPoint myself. Our version of Word does have 'Outline view' as is requested in the answer, however, again I do not know anything about which powerpoint is at her school and whether or not our Word97 is compatible with the school's powerpoint program. Thanks again!! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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MS Office is backwards compatible all the way to 97. This means that your
files will be readable to the current version of the software. I am running XP so I am not sure whether Word 97 includes the funcitonality outlined in the web page that Tom linked to. But, worst case scenario, your child can do their work in Word 97 and have someone else (with a more recent version) do the export to PowerPoint. -- Ann Scharpf "1parkpointer" wrote: Hi Tom, Thank you! I suppose I should have said that the copy of Word we use is Word97. After I copied the pages from the officehelp web site, read at the top of the pages that the article applies to MS Word 2002 & MS PowerPoint 2002. I do not know which version of PowerPoint is at her school, and I don't know anything about PowerPoint myself. Our version of Word does have 'Outline view' as is requested in the answer, however, again I do not know anything about which powerpoint is at her school and whether or not our Word97 is compatible with the school's powerpoint program. Thanks again!! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Hi 1parkpointer
You might also find it useful to download the free PowerPoint viewer from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en That won't help you create or edit a PowerPoint presentation. It only lets you view existing PowerPoint files. But if, for example, your daughter brings home a PowerPoint file from school, she would be able to view it in the Viewer. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Ann Scharpf" wrote in message ... MS Office is backwards compatible all the way to 97. This means that your files will be readable to the current version of the software. I am running XP so I am not sure whether Word 97 includes the funcitonality outlined in the web page that Tom linked to. But, worst case scenario, your child can do their work in Word 97 and have someone else (with a more recent version) do the export to PowerPoint. -- Ann Scharpf "1parkpointer" wrote: Hi Tom, Thank you! I suppose I should have said that the copy of Word we use is Word97. After I copied the pages from the officehelp web site, read at the top of the pages that the article applies to MS Word 2002 & MS PowerPoint 2002. I do not know which version of PowerPoint is at her school, and I don't know anything about PowerPoint myself. Our version of Word does have 'Outline view' as is requested in the answer, however, again I do not know anything about which powerpoint is at her school and whether or not our Word97 is compatible with the school's powerpoint program. Thanks again!! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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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! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia -- Pat Garard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pat Garard's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4788 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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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! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "1parkpointer" wrote in message ... 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!! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Hi Pat G., We will download the program and 'Read All About It' as soon as we can. Sounds like a great program that will be put to good use. Thank you, and you might get more mail as time goes on. Thanks Again! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Hi, Guess more information on our problem is needed. Current OS software is Windows 98/98SE; Word97 word processor, on a 1998 Dell xps r400 with 128mb ram. The Open Office fix will not work on our computer. Older machine that continues to work the test of time. Daughter is needing to use a PowerPoint type program for presentations at school. Have been told by science teacher that editing can be done using Word97 in Outline form, but saving it to a floppy and downloading at school doesn't seem to be working too well. Things get lost in the translation. We recently borrowed a flash drive and apparently the computer OS is too old to understand what to do with the flash software/hardware at the usb port. With other needs for our family funds, a newer computer just isn't in the cards. Any other options out there would be welcome! Thank You! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Can she email herself the Word doc and get the attachment at school?
The floppy *should* work--caveat--never save directly to a floppy, or open a doc on a floppy. Always use Windows Explorer to copy the file to the floppy, and to copy the file from the floppy to the hard drive, and then open it. On 10/23/06 3:45 AM, "1parkpointer" wrote: Hi, Guess more information on our problem is needed. Current OS software is Windows 98/98SE; Word97 word processor, on a 1998 Dell xps r400 with 128mb ram. The Open Office fix will not work on our computer. Older machine that continues to work the test of time. Daughter is needing to use a PowerPoint type program for presentations at school. Have been told by science teacher that editing can be done using Word97 in Outline form, but saving it to a floppy and downloading at school doesn't seem to be working too well. Things get lost in the translation. We recently borrowed a flash drive and apparently the computer OS is too old to understand what to do with the flash software/hardware at the usb port. With other needs for our family funds, a newer computer just isn't in the cards. Any other options out there would be welcome! Thank You! -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi 1parkpointer
Two things: 1. Let's backtrack a bit. You have Word 97. Are you sure you don't also have PowerPoint 97? It's possible that the machine came with just Word, but it strikes me as marginally more likely that it came with all of Office 97. If you can't see PowerPoint on the All Programs menu, try Start Run. In the box type POWERPNT.EXE and click OK. If you have PowerPoint on the machine, that should open it up. 2. I've used a USB drive with Windows 98 and 98SE, but I also seem to remember running into a case where one particular USB drive would not work on one particular machine. So either (a) your machine needs the drivers that will let it deal with USB drives or (b) it might be just an unhappy marriage between your machine and the flash drive you have. Could you use another flash drive? But the combination of Windows 98SE and flash drives is several steps beyond my knowledge, so I'd suggest you post a question in an appropriate Windows newsgroup. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "1parkpointer" wrote in message ... Hi, Guess more information on our problem is needed. Current OS software is Windows 98/98SE; Word97 word processor, on a 1998 Dell xps r400 with 128mb ram. The Open Office fix will not work on our computer. Older machine that continues to work the test of time. Daughter is needing to use a PowerPoint type program for presentations at school. Have been told by science teacher that editing can be done using Word97 in Outline form, but saving it to a floppy and downloading at school doesn't seem to be working too well. Things get lost in the translation. We recently borrowed a flash drive and apparently the computer OS is too old to understand what to do with the flash software/hardware at the usb port. With other needs for our family funds, a newer computer just isn't in the cards. Any other options out there would be welcome! Thank You! -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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Hi Shauna K., I checked out the computer the MS office program that came with the software is small business. It is missing access, powerpoint, and front page, and there is no PowerPoint97 or any other version. Also tried the usb again, and the computer still doesn't see the drive. The computer has two usb ports on the back and according to the operators manual, they are version 1.1. Apparently it matters, because the only devices that they recognize are the printer and scanner. We had a problem with the printer when we got the first one. For what ever reason, the first printer was replaced and the second one works fine. Her teacher says that she can use Word97 at home or simply do her work after school. [I certainly wish the schools would give copies of the programs they wish to see the students use. It is unfair of teachers to expect parents to simply go out and buy software programs for every articular class assignment that they expect their students to do.] Thanks for your help.. -- 1parkpointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1parkpointer's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=4777 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=1237772 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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