What is MS PowerPoint?
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"Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Being widely used by businesspeople, educators, and trainers, it is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology: according to its vendor, Microsoft Corporation, some 30 million presentations are made with PowerPoint every day."
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perhaps you could try Open Office.  It is a java based, open source alternative to MS Office.  It comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow program, etc.\nOf course, you'll need the Java Runtime Environment to use it.
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they most likely do not have the program to run it. \n\nExample: Powerpoint (.pps) needs the powerpoint program or powerpoint viewer, the free open office can also be used
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flash is great but i recently found Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. the latest version of this popular add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint. If you have powerpoint 2003 then th add-on is free.\n\nso you can hook up a microphone and discuss something and move your mouse around and point to whatever you want to display ect.\n\nbasicaly it's a audio/video screen capture. then you can embed this movie in the webpage as a tutorial on navigating through your site or whatever you wish.
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Sounds like you could use PowerPoint Viewer.
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Another option is OpenOffice. It's much like StarOffice like the person up there offered. OpenOffice is a suite like Microsoft Office that is open source and completely free and one of the programs is called 'Impress' and let's you create slide shows and save them in PowerPoint format.\n\nAlso a correction to the guy above: StarOffice is not free, it  costs $70. OpenOffice is free.
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You can do either one.  If you go to microsoft's homepage you can get a cheat-sheat that tells you how to do it.\nhttp://office.microsoft.com/training\nSo that's how! Great PowerPoint features\n\nGood Luck
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Go to the FILE menu, and pick SAVE AS\n\nThen pick PowerPoint Show (*.pps) from the SAVE AS TYPE pull down. \n\nThen click on SAVE. \n\nSend out the file that you named     myfile.pps. \n\nThere are TWO benefits.   \n1. They get the show that is VIEW only.  \n2.  The file is much smaller.
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In Power Point load (File/Open) the presentation you’ve selected. Then start it by pressing View/Slide Show. Click mouse left button to reach next slide.\nIf you have ppt document to view, but you have no Power Point installed (and/or licensed :))), you can download free viewer from http://www.microsoft.com
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USE MICROSOFT POWERPOINT TO CREATE A SLIDESHOW THEN AT THE TOP PUT THE CURSOUR ON SLIDESHOW THEN CLICK ON SLIDESHOWS
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Here is a good source\nhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/default.aspx\n\n///
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If you would like a free copy of power point viewer you can obtain one from Microsoft at the source link provided below.  If you are looking for a free copy of power point software in order to create presentations, Microsoft refers to that as piracy, and it is illegal.  The second link is to the office 2007 website where you can use it for free evaluation, but it won't let you print or save.  (useless, I know).  If you know where to look you can get into beta testing, however, considering they have recently closed Office 2007 Beta, it will be at least six or seven months, quite likely another 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 years before MS is going to produce another "new" office.\nLastly, check out this Yahoo Answers post, (third link) they make several references to www.openoffice.org.  <- FREE last link will take you directly to the download page of MS competitor based on the opensource movement "OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL)."  Anytime you want free software, searching for something under open source or freeware is a good idea.
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you can only make presentations with powerpoint. With the viewer you can only view them.
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More and more people are asking how to burn their Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations to DVD, for two very obvious reasons:\n\nPowerPoint is an extremely easy multimedia authoring tool to use. PowerPoint is also widely available, and you don't have to be a genius to use it. \nDVDs have become very cost effective to create, and DVD players are widely available. And playing DVDs doesn't require a computer. \n\nUsing PowerPoint and a DVD, you have an easy method of getting your message out, whether as a training video or a digital business card promoting your products or services. And your audience can view your material at home as well as in their offices.\n\nA common method of committing a PowerPoint presentation to DVD involves making a video recording of the complete presentation in real time, saving the recorded presentation as a video file, and finally transferring that video file onto a DVD. Third-party software is required to record the presentation.\n\nThis article presents an alternative method, in which you convert your PowerPoint presentation into a storyboard of slides that can, in turn, be used to create a video file that can be burned to a DVD. A storyboard is a series of slide images that works rather like one of those cartoon flipbooks. A stack of pictures are bound so that the images can be riffled through with the thumb, causing the illusion of a moving picture.\n\nStoryboarding your presentation is an entirely different process from capturing a presentation that is running on a screen. The end result can be spectacular, but it is not as fully automated as the recording of a live presentation.\n\nBefore you start\nTo create video files, you need one of the following:\n\nPhoto slideshow software  \nPhoto slideshow software makes it possible to create slideshows from your digital photos. Some programs allow you to add special effects, soundtracks, voice narration, titles, and captions to your shows.\n\nThere are many photo slideshow applications available at little or no cost on the Internet, and most digital cameras come with software that lets you create digital video shows from your photos. Photo Story 3 software for Windows XP is available free from Microsoft.\n\nVideo editing software  \nVideo editing software is used to cut and arrange, and also to add effects to, digital video content.\n\nAgain, there is a wide variety of programs available, many of them for free or near free; and most DVD burners come with software that allows you to edit your video footage. Movie Maker software for Windows XP is available free from Microsoft.\n\n\nTo burn your video files to DVD discs, you also need:\n\nA DVD burner   This is the hardware in which the physical DVD disc is formatted. \nDVD burning software   Most DVD burners arrive complete with the software that you need to burn DVDs. Make sure that your software has the ability to convert the format of your video to one that can be played on a conventional television DVD player.\nNote  Many photo slideshow and video editing software packages also provide the ability to burn video to a DVD disc, or will at least export video to be burned to a DVD. One such program available for purchase is Sonic DVD for Photo Story 3.\n\n\nIf you plan to play your DVD on televisions, Part I\n\nThe quality (or resolution) of most TV screens is not as good as that of most computer monitors. If you plan to play your DVD on a television screen, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Taj Simmons offers the following suggestions:\n\nAvoid putting information too close to the edges of your slides. (Information placed too close to the edge may be cut off when viewed on a TV.) \nAvoid very small text. A lot depends on the quality of the TV and how far back the TV will be viewed from. \nAim for no smaller than 30-point font sizes. \nAvoid very thin lines. Aim for at least 3-point line sizes. \nAvoid colors that look bad on TV. (Red is notorious for this.) \nAvoid very narrow, pale, thin, and
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If you are looking to do word art in PowerPoint, you are using ****Microsoft Office for Mac*******\n\nhttp://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/office/
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Just use OpenOffice...it IS free.  And yes, it will open PowerPoint files.
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Hi Abhishek,\nThe Save as "PowerPoint Show " option is present in Microsoft Powerpoint 2003.  Its just that you would have to scroll down using the vertical scroll bar.\nCheck it out again and you would find it.. \n\nCheers n Chao!!!