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Mike Luther

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Jan 29, 2009, 7:25:58 PM1/29/09
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Subject line says it, is there any way to view M/S Powerpoint presentations on
OS/2 in generic mode? I tried it in Lotus Smart Suite for OS/2 in the various
applications and got nowhere.

Thanks!

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--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)

Mike Luther

James J. Weinkam

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Jan 29, 2009, 8:03:00 PM1/29/09
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Mike Luther wrote:
> Subject line says it, is there any way to view M/S Powerpoint
> presentations on OS/2 in generic mode? I tried it in Lotus Smart Suite
> for OS/2 in the various applications and got nowhere.
>
> Thanks!
>
Open Office

Mike Luther

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Jan 29, 2009, 9:23:39 PM1/29/09
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Hi James!

Thanks!

Andy

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Jan 30, 2009, 4:21:43 PM1/30/09
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:23:39 UTC, Mike Luther <mike....@ziplog.com>
wrote:

> Hi James!
>
> James J. Weinkam wrote:
> > Mike Luther wrote:
> >> Subject line says it, is there any way to view M/S Powerpoint
> >> presentations on OS/2 in generic mode? I tried it in Lotus Smart
> >> Suite for OS/2 in the various applications and got nowhere.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> > Open Office
>
> Thanks!
>

Open Office does very well with PowerPoint, in fact, I have had people
send me PowerPoint presentations that were corrupt such that
PowerPoint could not open them and I was able to open them and resave
them with Open Office and it reduced the size by as much as 2/3s and
the user said everything was present in the presentation. Smartsuite
for Windows can view PowerPoint files but the OS/2 version never
gained that functionality.
Andy
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Marcel Müller

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Feb 4, 2009, 3:21:14 PM2/4/09
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Andy wrote:
> Open Office does very well with PowerPoint, in fact, I have had people
> send me PowerPoint presentations that were corrupt such that
> PowerPoint could not open them and I was able to open them and resave
> them with Open Office and it reduced the size by as much as 2/3s and
> the user said everything was present in the presentation.

This applies to other OpenOffice products like Writer and Calc as well.

It's always kind of fun when companies publicize documents and people
who read them can find deleted paragraphs in the embedded document
history. :-)

Furthermore it is always some kind of war to use Word and other MS
office products. The many unexpected and unpredictable automatisms make
it really not faster than using a typewriter. Unfortunately OpenOffice
is on the same way to an unusable product.


Marcel

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