Does anyone know where I could get a free download of power point please?

[WallOfSilence]

I have a presentation to do on Thursday & want to get it all out of the way.

I can do it from university but it means going down a night through the week & I don't really want to do that unless I really have to.

If I could download a free trial & get it stuck onto my memory pen it would be great

Any ideas?

[RustyBear]

This is a trial of the 2007 version - if you want to later use the file on a computer which has an earlier version of office it you will need to save your presentation in the right format or download a converter file from Microsoft.

[WallOfSilence]

Oh dear... is it very complicated?

Thanks BTW.

[GeekBoy]

nope. Just an option from a drop down. Choose Save As rather than Save... ..easy peasy.. ..where've all the the OpenSource peeps gone recommending OpenOffice???

[WallOfSilence]

I'm downloading it at the min.

Save as : what?

I am going to save it to my memory pen & see if it works tomorrow.....

Now, does anyone know how I can get the writing to fade & come in etc.....

Thank god after Thursday I never have to do this again!!

[GeekBoy]

ooh.. .you can't run the program from the memory stick.. ...but you can (I think) save presentations in a standalone running format.

The most common format would be PowerPoint 2000-2003....

...fade in/out/etc for objects (text/images/etc) are all animation effects so that's where to look. To build a slide, you want build effects where you specify which elements should appear first and how they should appear.

I hate powerpoint.

[WallOfSilence]

I downloaded the 2007 version.

I just knocked together some crappy slides to see how it worked... I saved them to the stick.

I then took the stick to my other pc & tried to get it to play... the fecker is saying it's not in PP format

Yet when I stick in into this laptop again it goes the best.

So I'm guessing it won't work on the uni laptop on Thursday & I am going to have to take this laptop in with me.... bugger.

why does everything have to be so bloody technical... overheads I can do!!!!

Thanks for your help geek

[GeekBoy]

Haven't got a handy copy of PowerPoint to check but rather than Save, use Save As and take a look at the options. There used to be standalone presentation option (basically a crappy program that played your slides!)

[MaryBS]

There's an option to "save as Powerpoint Show", which'll let any PC play a slide show, but won't give the option of changing it. I use it hand work in when I don't know if my tutor has definitely got access to PP.

[RustyBear]

I don't have Office 2007 here, but I know that Word 2007 saves documents as .docx instead of .doc, which all previous versions used. I assume Powerpoint does the same so your file will be saved as 'crappyslides.pptx'

This tells you how to save your file in PowerPoint 97-2003 format so it can be read by a computer using an earlier version.

The alternative is to download the Compatibility Pack (there is a link to do this further down the page)but you would have to install this on the computer you are going to read the file on & if it's a university machine , I'm guessing you won't be allowed to do this. (though if you can get hold of a tech it might be worth asking if they are planning to do this, or if there are any machines available that have it, as more & more people will be getting Office 2007 in the future)