• Is there a way to acquire Microsoft Office PowerPoint for free?
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I remember hearing once that if you're a student you can get Microsoft Office for free or something. I tried googling it but didn't come up with any results myself. Does anyone know how I could get M-Office or even just PowerPoint?
I would suggest their DreamSpark program, but they don't seem to have Office there. Why not use LibreOffice Impress instead? It handles *.PPTs as well.
Certain schools/school districts/colleges/universities will provide MS office for free Also libre/open office/Google docs are good alternatives
[QUOTE=koeniginator;39329332]Certain schools/school districts/colleges/universities will provide MS office for free Also libre/open office/Google docs are good alternatives[/QUOTE] I tried Open Office's Draw but it didn't seem to save as powerpoint's format.
yes
google drive presentation isn't half bad
of course not unless you're thinking of doing something illegal like... [I]pirating software[/I]
[IMG]http://puu.sh/1RB2N[/IMG] Thing is, I'm making a representation at home which I will need to display with Powerpoint and... I can't get that .ppt format to save with. LibreOffice seems kind of convoluted anywho.
[QUOTE='[Green];39330089'][IMG]http://puu.sh/1RB2N[/IMG] Thing is, I'm making a representation at home which I will need to display with Powerpoint and... I can't get that .ppt format to save with. LibreOffice seems kind of convoluted anywho.[/QUOTE] There's your problem, you're using Draw, an alternative to Visio or Publisher. It's not meant for slideshows. Export it to a *.PNG and import that into whatever slideshow you're doing in Impress. And LibreOffice is literally OpenOffice in every way but name. It's a continuation of OO.
If you don't find OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice to be what you want, you may want to try this, which is free, though not open-source: [url]http://www.freeoffice.com/[/url] I use SoftMaker Office 2008, which is essentially the same thing, and I can say it's very good and I've had very few problems overall.
Just ask your dad to lend his computer for a few hours to you.
[QUOTE=fritzel;39330324]Just ask your dad to lend his computer for a few hours to you.[/QUOTE] Great idea, but I don't really have a dad. Not in close proximity, anyway.
[url]http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/[/url]
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