MS Powerpoint to Mac

[Watcher111]

Hi All,

I haven't read through all the posts yet, so forgive me if this has been
recently asked...

My wife is going to be running some powerpoints for song lyrics at a church
women's conference. We were just informed that the computer at the
conference center is a MAC, we don't know what OS version, but we do know it
is at least 3 years or more older. What I need to find out is, can she run
the MS powerpoints on the MAC without any problem, or do we need to buy a
conversion program, or what?? Our church has 20 years of songs on powerpoint
and we really don't want to type them all in if we can help it.

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Wayne

 

[Watcher111]

know

It'd be a good idea to find out what model Mac, how much available RAM and
disk space it has, what operating system it runs and whether or not
PowerPoint is installed (and if so, what version).

Next, what version of PowerPoint do you use (I'm assuming Windows, is that
right?) and what's in your presentation? Do you use XP and make heavy use
of its animation features? Or are you turning out fairly basic
presentations on PPT 97?

It may be that the free Mac viewer will handle your presentations:

Free PowerPoint Viewers (where to download them)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00153.htm

PowerPoint is not installed on the MAC it's running OS 8.6. The PPTs are
being created on Windows 98 with Office 2000 and all the slides are, are
just words on a standard powerpoint slide, no animation at all. I'll go
check out the free viewers and see if one of those will work.

Thanks for the help

Wayne

 

[M. Katz]

Powerpoint can also output each slide as a jpeg "picture".
(It puts all of the slides into a single folder with filenames
having consecutive numbers.)
From there, you can use any of 100 "slide-show" viewing programs
to do the trick. Often you can "drag-and-drop" the folder onto
the icon of a slide-show-viewing program and it'll open
all of the images. From there, it's standard that the arrow keys
will control the slide-show.

M. Katz