Re: Powerpoint viewer for OSX?

Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2007-06-29 21:27:47 -0500, Dudley Henriques <dhenriques@xxxxxxx> said:

I have Microsoft Office for Mac but use it for Word only. I think if I had known a bit more about Text Edit when I bought the IMac, I could have saved the money I spent on MS Office. I think the teacher/school version I bought was $129.
Actually the only reason I need a PP viewer at all is the odd PP file I get through the mail. Other than that, I really have no use for it.

But if you have PowerPoint, why not just use that to view PowerPoint presentations?

You're not going to believe this, but I didn't know until this post of yours that I had PP on the system. I bought the teacher version of MS Office because I needed Word which was not all that smart to begin with, as Text Edit apparently works with the assets of Word that I need.
I knew I had Excel with this package, but never saw the PP install.
You're right; I have Power Point. I just looked and found it in applications.
This brings up something. When I got a PP file the other day, it didn't open automatically in Power Point. Was this because I hadn't opened the program from within applications and run it once to open it?
I did get a dialog window trying to open the file asking for a program to open it with but never saw the PP listed as I wasn't looking for it and assuming I needed a viewer. That's when I quit and posted here about the viewer :-)
I have just clicked on PP and opened it in applications then closed it again. Can I assume at this point that the next PP file I get will automatically open in PP or will I again get the box asking for a program to open a PP file?
Thanks BTW for catching this. I probably would have gone on in "dumb world" forever not realizing I had PP on the system all the time :-)
Dudley Henriques
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