MS PowerPoint alternatives

[OUDoc]

Any good (cheaper) alternatives to it? My brother needs to do a presentation. I have a copy of PowerPoint (from the 1930's, I think) but it rarely gets along with the younger generation of PowerPoint. Anyone have suggestions?

[BeetDigger]

Some paper, a few colored pens, some crayons and a ruler is a good start.

[sooner_born_1960]

openoffice

[OUDoc]

Some paper, a few colored pens, some crayons and a ruler is a good start.
How do you make the paper do that "vroooom" sound that PP makes?

[Norm In Norman]

http://www.openoffice.org/

[sooner_born_1960]

http://www.openoffice.org/
I was going to make him find it himself.

[Sooner in Tampa]

Have him try Harvard Graphics ;)

[BeetDigger]

How do you make the paper do that "vroooom" sound that PP makes?


Whom ever is holding up the slides during the presentation has to do that.

[Norm In Norman]

I was going to make him find it himself.
Lazy bastard.

[sooner_born_1960]

Lazy bastard.
Him or me? Or his lazy *** brother?

[sooner_born_1960]

Since the good doctor hasn't posted in a while, I'm going to assume he has downloaded openoffice, and is giving Impress a try. Either that or he's seeing a patient. Sometimes I make myself laugh.

[Norm In Norman]

Him or me? Or his lazy *** brother?
Exactly.

[TopDaugIn2000]

yup, I use open office at home.

doesn't have anything like Outlook, so I'm stuck with outlook express. any suggestions for that?

[yermom]

yeah, i'm all ears for that... Outlook is awesome, unless you aren't using Exchange, then it's probably a bit bloated. if you are just doing POP/IMAP i usually just use Mozilla's Thunderbird

i use Openoffice all the time, but i'm kind of a basic user for that stuff and i don't might some of the rough edges... i did open a Powerpoint presentation with it for the first time yesterday, so i know it works for that :D

[Vaevictis]

doesn't have anything like Outlook, so I'm stuck with outlook express. any suggestions for that?

I hear they finally got a win32 installer for evolution.

http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/

I haven't actually tried it on win32, so I have no idea how well it works on Windows.

I've used it on Linux for years, and there at least, it's outstanding.

[OUDoc]

Since the good doctor hasn't posted in a while, I'm going to assume he has downloaded openoffice, and is giving Impress a try. Either that or he's seeing a patient. Sometimes I make myself laugh.
Seeing patients. One just went down in front of my office door. I hate it when that happens. ;) (She's okay.)
I told my brother to try OpenOffice. I haven't heard back on how his lazy *** is doing. I'll find out later. Thanks for all the help, everyone.

[SoonerInKCMO]

Have him try Harvard Graphics ;)

Thanks for the nightmarish flashback. :mad:

[Sooner in Tampa]

Thanks for the nightmarish flashback. :mad:Sorry :O I was wondering how many folks would actually catch that.

[Vaevictis]

Must be in my repressed memories bin.

[yermom]

i remember seeing a table of features in my Computer Science book in HS, that is about as close as i've been to seeing Harvard Graphics

[Vaevictis]

I used to play with it on my father's office's computers, must have been like 1987ish.

[SoonerInKCMO]

Somebody I knew had HG back when we were in college - we used it for some lab class or something to make graphs and pie charts and stuff. I've been actively repressing those memories... much like the memories of having to FTP files to the VAX in order to use the laser printer. Or standing in front of the dot-matrix printer for what seemed like hours waiting for a report to finish printing. Or downloading pron from alt.sex.binaries and waiting forEVAR for it to get drawn to the screen line by line by line by line by line...

[SoonerInKCMO]

Oh crap - Lotus 123 graphs getting rendered by the pen plotter. And having a pen run out of ink and having to do it all over again. :(

[49r]

Apple Keynote!

That one's not free though... :D