What happens if one uses a MAC to read a ppt made on Windows?
I received an email today with the following subject, "What happens if one uses a MAC to read a ppt made on Windows?"
As far as I know, this is roughly what happens:
The angel GUIbriel shall sound the Mac OS X start noise and Steve Jobs (called JEHOBA by some), adorned with a mighty beard of flame and garbed in a mock turtleneck-ed robe as black as night, shall descend from his throne at 1 Infinite Loop.
Frankly, I just wouldn't try it if I were you.
Update
I've had a surprising amount of serious feedback on this post - mostly with people offering to help me solve this problem. I suppose that I should have answered the question with my tongue both in and out of my cheek. Thankfully, the lazyweb - in the form of Paul Zagoridis - answered the question seriously.
I suggested to my friend who wrote the original question that he export the presentation to PDF - this would help ensure that the presentation (which didn't have any transitions or animations) would be viewable on any platform.
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October 24th, 2007 at 1:13
Very very funny
iWork 08 will import it, there is a 30 day trial available.
NeoOffice (the native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.Org) will open it and run all but the most complex .ppt files
Microsoft offer a viewer for Powerpoint 98 (google mac ppt viewer)
Lastly and most easily consider using Google Docs in your browser.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:02
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November 3rd, 2007 at 14:54
At work we are ethnically cleansing all Windows (myself included but I'm ex-IT). While I understood it was a hilarious satire, on the day I found your post I had to sit through two executive meetings where colleagues complained that their MacBook's can't open ppt files.
One of these geniuses enters two numbers in a spreadsheet, grabs his calculator, works out the sum and types the result in the Total cell. Sadly I kid you not.