Re: [libreoffice-users] Save Powerpoint presentation as executable

Brian Barker has written on 6/18/2014 7:57 AM:
> At 11:59 18/06/2014 +0200, Cley Faye wrote:
> > 2014-06-18 2:37 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker:
> > > At 20:59 17/06/2014 +0200, Cley Faye wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately, not directly. And there is (as far as I know) no 
> > > > simple "viewer" that could be used for this purpose, ...
> > >
> > > On the contrary, if the target platform is Windows (but not other 
> > > operating systems), it can use the freeware Powerpoint Viewer from Microsoft:
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13 .
> >
> > While this can be helpful for peoples having to go back and forth 
> > between the odp and the ppt format, I have a hard time considering 
> > that a ppt viewer is a viable alternative to view odp files.
>
> For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't suggest this, of course: the 
> original query claimed to be (as the Subject header still indicates) 
> about a Powerpoint presentation, not an Impress one (albeit perhaps 
> saved as such from LibreOffice). You may be interpreting "Powerpoint 
> presentation" to mean just "presentation" (which could even have been 
> what the original questioner meant but didn't say).
>
> I trust this helps.

Thanks, Brian. My question was prompted because a member of my wife's
garden club brought a PP on a flash drive for a seminar and then tried
to plug it in to another member's laptop, a laptop that did not have the
PP executable installed!


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