.PPT Format

Howdy Heirloom,
I get some emails from vendors from time to time in odd formats which
software I don't use and by chance one day I forwarded the thing to my
yahoo account and low and behold it poped up in one of those little windows
that displays attachments.
Sometimes I have to save em in a BMP format but thats better than
nothing.. :-)
Hope it works for you..

RTS

"Heirloom" wrote in message
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Rocky,
Are you saying you can send a Power Point file to yourself at a Yahoo!
address and it will translate to a readable format???? If so, that's just
too cool. I dl'd the Power Point viewer and have to save the file
someplace
before I can open it with the viewer (can't open it from the email in OE,
for some reason). I will try that the next time I get something in PP
format....thanks for the tip.
Heirloom, old and OMG!....a new trick!...who says
an
old dog can't.....

"RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message
news:PXGxj.54289$yE1.28270@attbi_s21...
I kinda cheat and email them to myself at yahoo, their server will
translate them to a viewable format i can then save to my puter..
RTS

"Mike M" wrote in message
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David H. Lipman wrote:

Assuming it isn't a PowerPoint 2007 document.

Do people actually use Office 2007? g

However don't most O2007 processes have a different extension? docx
rather than doc, xls? rather than xls, etc.. OK, now I've checked I
see
that PowerPoint 2007 specific files have a ppsm, ppsx, ppthtml, pptm,
pptmhtml or pptx extension so AAH should be safe using the PowerPoint
viewer to access a file with a ppt extension.
--
Mike Maltby

I've got a copy here of Office Home and Student 2007 which I won, haven't
installed yet, saving it until such time as I can have a new machine. g
Joan


"Mike M" wrote in message
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David H. Lipman wrote:

We are creatures of habit. I still use, and enjoy, Quicken for DOS
v8 for savings, checking and money market accounts. :-)

I'm not certain about creatures of habit but rather feel, as I suspect you
do as well from your comment, that if a product does what I want it to do
then there is little point in upgrading it unless by continuing to use
that older product I am exposing myself to greater risk than I am prepared
to accept. However being aware of the limitations and weaknesses of a
software product and making a risk analysis based on ones competence and
awareness means that using an older product isn't always as risky as some
might think.

As for your using Quicken for DOS v8 you are way in advance of myself. All
I use are a few Excel spreadsheets in a workbook and enter data by hand.
OTOH perhaps this shows what a simple life I now lead having been retired
(due to ill-health) for the past eleven years.
--
Mike Maltby

Joan Archer wrote:

I've got a copy here of Office Home and Student 2007 which I won,
haven't installed yet, saving it until such time as I can have a new
machine. g Joan

New machine. I wonder when that will be? At least prices have dropped a
fair over the last year or so. Bet you can't wait to get Vista up and
running. g
--
Mike

Mike and
Others

Thanks all of you.



"Mike M" wrote in message
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AAH wrote:

Any user to help to open the .PPT format files?

The usual way is to use PowerPoint. You can obtain a free PowerPoint
viewer from Microsoft

(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5727-43AB-4F24
-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en).
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98
Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP
--
Mike Maltby

From: "Mike M"


|
| New machine. I wonder when that will be? At least prices have dropped a
| fair over the last year or so. Bet you can't wait to get Vista up and
| running. g

The price of computers drop and their capabilities rise.

However, the MS OS does not drop in price :-(

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

I don't know about that Dave, I saw a headline in one of my newsletters
earlier that stated Microsoft were going to drop the price of Vista in an
attempt to get people to buy it, I didn't bother following the link so I
don't know the full story g
Joan

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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The price of computers drop and their capabilities rise.

However, the MS OS does not drop in price :-(

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

g Your guess is as good as mine there Mike, would love one though then
pass this one over to John, I think he'd be more than happy with it and it's
performance compared to his g
Oh well it's nice to dream g
Joan

"Mike M" wrote in message
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Joan Archer wrote:

I've got a copy here of Office Home and Student 2007 which I won,
haven't installed yet, saving it until such time as I can have a new
machine. g Joan

New machine. I wonder when that will be? At least prices have dropped a
fair over the last year or so. Bet you can't wait to get Vista up and
running. g
--
Mike

From: "Joan Archer"

| I don't know about that Dave, I saw a headline in one of my newsletters
| earlier that stated Microsoft were going to drop the price of Vista in an
| attempt to get people to buy it, I didn't bother following the link so I
| don't know the full story g
| Joan
|

I bought Win95B off the shelf for ~$200.00 US.
I bought Win98 off the shelf for $250.00 US.
I bought WinXP Pro. off the shelf for $300.00 US.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

From: "Joan Archer"

| I don't know about that Dave, I saw a headline in one of my newsletters
| earlier that stated Microsoft were going to drop the price of Vista in an
| attempt to get people to buy it, I didn't bother following the link so I
| don't know the full story g
| Joan
|

http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-988...g=2547-1_3-0-5

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

Just saw a CPU this weekend with Vista Home Premium, a Compaq (cpu only, no
mon, keyboard, etc.), with 160G HD, 1G Ram, on board everything, DVD Burner,
network card, $268 U.S. I thought that was pretty amazing, even for a
cheapo cpu!
Heirloom, old and almost bought it for a backup!

"AAH" wrote in message
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Mike and
Others

Thanks all of you.



"Mike M" wrote in message
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AAH wrote:

Any user to help to open the .PPT format files?

The usual way is to use PowerPoint. You can obtain a free PowerPoint
viewer from Microsoft

(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5727-43AB-4F24
-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en).
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98
Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP
--
Mike Maltby