[iBook] alternative to powerpoint?

[Joe Roberts]

I would recommend OpenOffice, which you can download at openoffice.org. 
  You do have to install X11 off the installer disks that came with your 
operating system (if you haven't done so already), but it is an 
excellent open source alternative which will open Powerpoint, Excel, 
and Word files.


On Apr 20, 2005, at 7:16 PM, David Linker wrote:

> In addition to Keynote which costs money, and OpenOffice, which costs 
> nothing but only runs in X11, there is NeoOffice/J which costs nothing 
> and runs natively in OS X, and includes word-processing, spreadsheet, 
> presentation, and drawing, all office compatible.
>
> DTL
>
> On Dec 26, 2004, at 1:31 PM, J Patrick Draine wrote:
>
>> My father-in-law is staying with us for the holidays, and is verging 
>> on taking the plunge, and getting an iBook (after marveling at our 
>> family passing our iBook around the living room as we do many email 
>> and web activities wirelessly).
>> So he's asking me exactly how much it will cost him, etc. After 
>> asserting that he won't need to buy any software beyond the bundle 
>> that comes with the iBook, I am having some minor reconsideration on 
>> one point. Should he buy Office X so that if he downloads a 
>> Powerpoint file he won't be flipping out when he can't open it? Or is 
>> there some alternate software that can open up such a file?
>> Thanks,
>> Patrick Draine
>>
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