Open .ppt Slideshows With Free Viewer*
I was reminded of this “quick tip” topic article today, when I got a call for help and I was told that the caller “suddenly couldn’t open pictures in an e-mail they had received”. As I suspected, the “pictures” were not your usual picture files, but a .ppt file — a PowerPoint Presentation (aka “slideshow”).
Normally, opening attachments is no problem: you click on the “view” hyperlink; are asked if you want to “Open” or “Save” the file (since all I wanted to do was read it, I chose “open”). Here is where I was reminded that the machine did not have Office installed — instead open a picture, they saw “Windows cannot open this file:”
You may have seen a window like this in your computer user career…
(My article on what to do to resolve this can be read here.)
Fortunately, a quick visit to the Microsoft Download Center is all that’s required to enable my machine to view PowerPoint Presentations without purchasing and installing Microsoft Office.
Tip of the day/Today’s free link: If you are not using the Microsoft Office suite of programs, download and install the free PowerPoint Viewer 2007.
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