<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 16, 2013, at 12:28 PM, cat wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">If one does not have Keynote, will Libre Office open .pps?</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I just tried both NeoOffice and LIbreOffice with a PowerPoint slideshow file created in PowerPoint. I didn't change the file name extension from ".pps".</div><div><br></div><div>Both worked perfectly. (I dragged the file onto the icons for the programs.) Even the animations, music, and advanced screen wipes in the slideshow worked fine.</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that any OpenOffice-based program will open and display a PowerPoint slide show perfectly. </div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>___________________________________________</div><div>Randy B. Singer</div><div>Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance</div><div><a href="http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html">http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html</a></div><div>___________________________________________</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span>
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