Guest AAH Posted February 28, 2008 Posted February 28, 2008 Any user to help to open the .PPT format files?
Guest Mike M Posted February 28, 2008 Posted February 28, 2008 Re: .PPT Format AAH <aah@chakcomnet.net> wrote: > Any user to help to open the .PPT format files? The usual way is to use PowerPoint. You can obtain a free PowerPoint viewer from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en). Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98 Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP -- Mike Maltby mike.maltby@gmail.com
Guest David H. Lipman Posted February 28, 2008 Posted February 28, 2008 Re: .PPT Format From: "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> | AAH <aah@chakcomnet.net> wrote: | >> Any user to help to open the .PPT format files? | | The usual way is to use PowerPoint. You can obtain a free PowerPoint | viewer from Microsoft | (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF | 71A4&displaylang=en). Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98 | Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP Assuming it isn't a PowerPoint 2007 document. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
Guest Mike M Posted February 28, 2008 Posted February 28, 2008 Re: .PPT Format David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > Assuming it isn't a PowerPoint 2007 document. Do people actually use Office 2007? <g> However don't most O2007 processes have a different extension? docx rather than doc, xls? rather than xls, etc.. OK, now I've checked I see that PowerPoint 2007 specific files have a ppsm, ppsx, ppthtml, pptm, pptmhtml or pptx extension so AAH should be safe using the PowerPoint viewer to access a file with a ppt extension. -- Mike Maltby mike.maltby@gmail.com
Guest RockyTSquirrel Posted February 28, 2008 Posted February 28, 2008 Re: .PPT Format I kinda cheat and email them to myself at yahoo, their server will translate them to a viewable format i can then save to my puter.. RTS "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message news:OaX1npleIHA.5620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > > > Assuming it isn't a PowerPoint 2007 document. > > Do people actually use Office 2007? <g> > > However don't most O2007 processes have a different extension? docx > rather than doc, xls? rather than xls, etc.. OK, now I've checked I see > that PowerPoint 2007 specific files have a ppsm, ppsx, ppthtml, pptm, > pptmhtml or pptx extension so AAH should be safe using the PowerPoint > viewer to access a file with a ppt extension. > -- > Mike Maltby > mike.maltby@gmail.com > >
Guest David H. Lipman Posted February 28, 2008 Posted February 28, 2008 Re: .PPT Format From: "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> | David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: | >> Assuming it isn't a PowerPoint 2007 document. | | Do people actually use Office 2007? <g> | | However don't most O2007 processes have a different extension? docx | rather than doc, xls? rather than xls, etc.. OK, now I've checked I see | that PowerPoint 2007 specific files have a ppsm, ppsx, ppthtml, pptm, | pptmhtml or pptx extension so AAH should be safe using the PowerPoint | viewer to access a file with a ppt extension. Thanx Mike. I didn't know that. I have been installing the Compatibility Pack for older office installations as well as Visio Viewer 2007 and Powerpoint Viewer 2007 so all our Office 2003 users can be compatible with the users who are already updated to Office 2007. We too will be forced to use Office 2007. I don't like the new interface and I don't understand the need to alter it or to not have a Office 2003 user interface choice (Office 2003 skin if you want to use that terminology). -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
Guest Mike M Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > Thanx Mike. I didn't know that. > > I have been installing the Compatibility Pack for older office > installations as well as Visio Viewer 2007 and Powerpoint Viewer 2007 > so all our Office 2003 users can be compatible with the users who are > already updated to Office 2007. We too will be forced to use Office > 2007. I don't like the new interface and I don't understand the need > to alter it or to not have a Office 2003 user interface choice > (Office 2003 skin if you want to use that terminology). David, I checked the PowerPoint 2007 extensions by looking at the PowerPoint extensions added to the supported File Types on this box by the Compatibility Pack which I installed some months ago. <g> I've got an unopened boxed copy of O2007 Pro on the shelf to the side of me sitting alongside a couple of similarly unopened Vista Ultimate boxes. I just can't find a reason for installing O2007 as the only components I use are Excel and Access and can do all I want using O2003. I have Word installed but rarely use it as I'm a 20+ year WordPerfect user and I've never felt any need for Outlook as I don't access my mail via Exchange. As for PowerPoint I use it to view files but only occasionally have I created a presentation. I'm clearly a neanderthal when it comes to software and find I can do all I want with what I'm presently using. The same goes for Vista which I tested and I did run the copy I received for testing for a while but never activated it. I found Vista offered me little that I wanted whilst not supporting some of my software and hardware. That's changed now so I might install it again and keep it running. My last install which was used for testing SP1 expired around the time that SP1 went RTM so a nice clean Vista SP1 install might be in order. -- Mike Maltby mike.maltby@gmail.com
Guest David H. Lipman Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format From: "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> | | David, | | I checked the PowerPoint 2007 extensions by looking at the PowerPoint | extensions added to the supported File Types on this box by the | Compatibility Pack which I installed some months ago. <g> | | I've got an unopened boxed copy of O2007 Pro on the shelf to the side of | me sitting alongside a couple of similarly unopened Vista Ultimate boxes. | I just can't find a reason for installing O2007 as the only components I | use are Excel and Access and can do all I want using O2003. I have Word | installed but rarely use it as I'm a 20+ year WordPerfect user and I've | never felt any need for Outlook as I don't access my mail via Exchange. | As for PowerPoint I use it to view files but only occasionally have I | created a presentation. | | I'm clearly a neanderthal when it comes to software and find I can do all | I want with what I'm presently using. The same goes for Vista which I | tested and I did run the copy I received for testing for a while but never | activated it. I found Vista offered me little that I wanted whilst not | supporting some of my software and hardware. That's changed now so I | might install it again and keep it running. My last install which was | used for testing SP1 expired around the time that SP1 went RTM so a nice | clean Vista SP1 install might be in order. We are creatures of habit. I still use, and enjoy, Quicken for DOS v8 for savings, checking and money market accounts. :-) -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
Guest Mike M Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > We are creatures of habit. I still use, and enjoy, Quicken for DOS > v8 for savings, checking and money market accounts. :-) I'm not certain about creatures of habit but rather feel, as I suspect you do as well from your comment, that if a product does what I want it to do then there is little point in upgrading it unless by continuing to use that older product I am exposing myself to greater risk than I am prepared to accept. However being aware of the limitations and weaknesses of a software product and making a risk analysis based on ones competence and awareness means that using an older product isn't always as risky as some might think. As for your using Quicken for DOS v8 you are way in advance of myself. All I use are a few Excel spreadsheets in a workbook and enter data by hand. OTOH perhaps this shows what a simple life I now lead having been retired (due to ill-health) for the past eleven years. -- Mike Maltby mike.maltby@gmail.com
Guest Heirloom Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format Rocky, Are you saying you can send a Power Point file to yourself at a Yahoo! address and it will translate to a readable format???? If so, that's just too cool. I dl'd the Power Point viewer and have to save the file someplace before I can open it with the viewer (can't open it from the email in OE, for some reason). I will try that the next time I get something in PP format....thanks for the tip. Heirloom, old and OMG!....a new trick!...who says an old dog can't..... "RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@/nospam/hotmail.com> wrote in message news:PXGxj.54289$yE1.28270@attbi_s21... >I kinda cheat and email them to myself at yahoo, their server will > translate them to a viewable format i can then save to my puter.. > RTS > > "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message > news:OaX1npleIHA.5620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >> >> > Assuming it isn't a PowerPoint 2007 document. >> >> Do people actually use Office 2007? <g> >> >> However don't most O2007 processes have a different extension? docx >> rather than doc, xls? rather than xls, etc.. OK, now I've checked I see >> that PowerPoint 2007 specific files have a ppsm, ppsx, ppthtml, pptm, >> pptmhtml or pptx extension so AAH should be safe using the PowerPoint >> viewer to access a file with a ppt extension. >> -- >> Mike Maltby >> mike.maltby@gmail.com >> >> > >
Guest RockyTSquirrel Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format (Heirloom) Re: .PPT Format (Heirloom) Howdy Heirloom, I get some emails from vendors from time to time in odd formats which software I don't use and by chance one day I forwarded the thing to my yahoo account and low and behold it poped up in one of those little windows that displays attachments. Sometimes I have to save em in a BMP format but thats better than nothing.. :-) Hope it works for you.. RTS "Heirloom" <nobodyhome@noplacelike.hom> wrote in message news:OfykvFneIHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Rocky, > Are you saying you can send a Power Point file to yourself at a Yahoo! > address and it will translate to a readable format???? If so, that's just > too cool. I dl'd the Power Point viewer and have to save the file someplace > before I can open it with the viewer (can't open it from the email in OE, > for some reason). I will try that the next time I get something in PP > format....thanks for the tip. > Heirloom, old and OMG!....a new trick!...who says an > old dog can't..... > > "RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@/nospam/hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:PXGxj.54289$yE1.28270@attbi_s21... > >I kinda cheat and email them to myself at yahoo, their server will > > translate them to a viewable format i can then save to my puter.. > > RTS > > > > "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message > > news:OaX1npleIHA.5620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >> David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > >> > >> > Assuming it isn't a PowerPoint 2007 document. > >> > >> Do people actually use Office 2007? <g> > >> > >> However don't most O2007 processes have a different extension? docx > >> rather than doc, xls? rather than xls, etc.. OK, now I've checked I see > >> that PowerPoint 2007 specific files have a ppsm, ppsx, ppthtml, pptm, > >> pptmhtml or pptx extension so AAH should be safe using the PowerPoint > >> viewer to access a file with a ppt extension. > >> -- > >> Mike Maltby > >> mike.maltby@gmail.com > >> > >> > > > > > >
Guest Joan Archer Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format I've got a copy here of Office Home and Student 2007 which I won, haven't installed yet, saving it until such time as I can have a new machine. <g> Joan "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message news:OHAKJ4meIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > >> We are creatures of habit. I still use, and enjoy, Quicken for DOS >> v8 for savings, checking and money market accounts. :-) > > I'm not certain about creatures of habit but rather feel, as I suspect you > do as well from your comment, that if a product does what I want it to do > then there is little point in upgrading it unless by continuing to use > that older product I am exposing myself to greater risk than I am prepared > to accept. However being aware of the limitations and weaknesses of a > software product and making a risk analysis based on ones competence and > awareness means that using an older product isn't always as risky as some > might think. > > As for your using Quicken for DOS v8 you are way in advance of myself. All > I use are a few Excel spreadsheets in a workbook and enter data by hand. > OTOH perhaps this shows what a simple life I now lead having been retired > (due to ill-health) for the past eleven years. > -- > Mike Maltby > mike.maltby@gmail.com > >
Guest Mike M Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format Joan Archer <archer_joan@nospam.com> wrote: > I've got a copy here of Office Home and Student 2007 which I won, > haven't installed yet, saving it until such time as I can have a new > machine. <g> Joan New machine. I wonder when that will be? At least prices have dropped a fair over the last year or so. Bet you can't wait to get Vista up and running. <g> -- Mike
Guest AAH Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format Mike and Others Thanks all of you. "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message news:OMrf3DleIHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > AAH <aah@chakcomnet.net> wrote: > > > Any user to help to open the .PPT format files? > > The usual way is to use PowerPoint. You can obtain a free PowerPoint > viewer from Microsoft > (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24 -90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en). > Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98 > Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP > -- > Mike Maltby > mike.maltby@gmail.com >
Guest David H. Lipman Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format From: "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> | | New machine. I wonder when that will be? At least prices have dropped a | fair over the last year or so. Bet you can't wait to get Vista up and | running. <g> The price of computers drop and their capabilities rise. However, the MS OS does not drop in price :-( -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
Guest Joan Archer Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format I don't know about that Dave, I saw a headline in one of my newsletters earlier that stated Microsoft were going to drop the price of Vista in an attempt to get people to buy it, I didn't bother following the link so I don't know the full story <g> Joan "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message news:e3LsxgxeIHA.5560@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > The price of computers drop and their capabilities rise. > > However, the MS OS does not drop in price :-( > > -- > Dave > http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html > Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp > >
Guest Joan Archer Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format <g> Your guess is as good as mine there Mike, would love one though then pass this one over to John, I think he'd be more than happy with it and it's performance compared to his <g> Oh well it's nice to dream <g> Joan "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message news:OL79r$veIHA.2268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Joan Archer <archer_joan@nospam.com> wrote: > >> I've got a copy here of Office Home and Student 2007 which I won, >> haven't installed yet, saving it until such time as I can have a new >> machine. <g> Joan > > New machine. I wonder when that will be? At least prices have dropped a > fair over the last year or so. Bet you can't wait to get Vista up and > running. <g> > -- > Mike > > >
Guest David H. Lipman Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format From: "Joan Archer" <archer_joan@nospam.com> | I don't know about that Dave, I saw a headline in one of my newsletters | earlier that stated Microsoft were going to drop the price of Vista in an | attempt to get people to buy it, I didn't bother following the link so I | don't know the full story <g> | Joan | I bought Win95B off the shelf for ~$200.00 US. I bought Win98 off the shelf for $250.00 US. I bought WinXP Pro. off the shelf for $300.00 US. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
Guest David H. Lipman Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: .PPT Format From: "Joan Archer" <archer_joan@nospam.com> | I don't know about that Dave, I saw a headline in one of my newsletters | earlier that stated Microsoft were going to drop the price of Vista in an | attempt to get people to buy it, I didn't bother following the link so I | don't know the full story <g> | Joan | http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9882510-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
Guest Heirloom Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 Re: .PPT Format Just saw a CPU this weekend with Vista Home Premium, a Compaq (cpu only, no mon, keyboard, etc.), with 160G HD, 1G Ram, on board everything, DVD Burner, network card, $268 U.S. I thought that was pretty amazing, even for a cheapo cpu! Heirloom, old and almost bought it for a backup! "AAH" <aah@chakcomnet.net> wrote in message news:ezn01TweIHA.1824@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Mike and > Others > > Thanks all of you. > > > > "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message > news:OMrf3DleIHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> AAH <aah@chakcomnet.net> wrote: >> >> > Any user to help to open the .PPT format files? >> >> The usual way is to use PowerPoint. You can obtain a free PowerPoint >> viewer from Microsoft >> > (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24 > -90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en). >> Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98 >> Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP >> -- >> Mike Maltby >> mike.maltby@gmail.com >> > >
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