Mary said:
Alternately, if you don't have office (i.e. no office suite at all), you
could download OpenOffice. In my experience it'll display practically
every powerpoint file without any loss, and you get a full Office suite.
On the downside for OpenOffice:
- It's not standalone, you'll have to install it on a computer to use it
(the viewer can even be distributed with a presentation on CD or other
media, and will run from such media).
- Bigger footprint (+80 MB download and ~200MB installed, compared to
less than 2MB for the viewer).
- It won't open password protected presentations.