On Saturday, December 30, 2006 4:24 AM [GMT+1=CET], Connie Overland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Open Office was recommeded to me. My computer would not open any
PowerPoint documents so I deleted it, thinking I could reinstall it.
Of course that didn't solve the problem because now I need to buy a
powerpoint program before I can reinstall. I cannot see on the web
page anything about OpenOffice opening up powerpoint programs. Can
you advise me, please?
OpenOffice (OO) can open Powerpoint presentations (well, most anyway).
Assuming you are using Windows there are three possibilities:
1. When you install OO, tell it to set itself as the defualt for opening
Microsoft Office documents; this includes Powerpoint. The installation
process offers this as an option.
2. After installing OO, change the File Associations (see Windows Help)
so that OO becomes the default.
3. Right click a presentation (or other MS Ofice document) and tell
Windows to "Open With" OO; if OO isn't in the list of suggestions,
browse for it ("soffice.exe" in whichever folder you installed OO). At
this point you can also tick the box labelled "Always use this program
for this type of file" in which case you have achieved #2 by a different
route.
If you do #1 or #2 then opening is a question of double clicking the
file as usual. If you do #3 then you need to do it *every time* you want
to open a document with OO.
OO can also save documents in Microsoft format; choose Save As from the
File menu and select the relevant MS format from the list of
possibilities.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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