Brian Barker has written on 6/18/2014 7:57 AM: > At 11:59 18/06/2014 +0200, Cley Faye wrote: >>2014-06-18 2:37 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker: >>>At 20:59 17/06/2014 +0200, Cley Faye wrote: >>>>Unfortunately, not directly. And there is (as far as I know) no >>>>simple "viewer" that could be used for this purpose, ... >>> >>>On the contrary, if the target platform is Windows (but not other >>>operating systems), it can use the freeware Powerpoint Viewer from Microsoft: >>>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13 . >> >>While this can be helpful for peoples having to go back and forth >>between the odp and the ppt format, I have a hard time considering >>that a ppt viewer is a viable alternative to view odp files. > > For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't suggest this, of course: the > original query claimed to be (as the Subject header still indicates) > about a Powerpoint presentation, not an Impress one (albeit perhaps > saved as such from LibreOffice). You may be interpreting "Powerpoint > presentation" to mean just "presentation" (which could even have been > what the original questioner meant but didn't say). > > I trust this helps.
Thanks, Brian. My question was prompted because a member of my wife's garden club brought a PP on a flash drive for a seminar and then tried to plug it in to another member's laptop, a laptop that did not have the PP executable installed! -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
