Comments on: What happens if one uses a MAC to read a ppt made on Windows?

By: Paul Zagoridis

Paul Zagoridis — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:54:43 +0000

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.

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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:02:38 +0000

[...] Zak Greant's Blog answers this question in a way that made me laugh out loud. Powerpoint files are easily handled on a Mac: [...]

By: Paul Zagoridis

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:13:37 +0000

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.