free powerpoint?

[buzz2400]

can someone please tell me what the website is where you can get free powerpoint (or equivalent). someone on the boards once told me and can't find it now

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Like the program? Maybe Libre Office, or Open Office for the software.

 

[okw2012]

Libre Office is great, just remember to save your files in the native odp format, not ppt otherwise you'll have unpleasant surprises...

http://www.libreoffice.org/

Best way to share is then either printing to pdf or convincing your friends to use Libre Office.

While you're at it consider dropping Windows altogether for Ubuntu!

 

[maggiew]

I use open office on my home computer.

Maggie

 

[SecondStar2TheRight]

There's Prezi. It's a free powerpoint alternative.
Prezi.com

 

[Ranger111]

There is pirate's bay -- not associated with WDW -- and not exactly legal -- and not exactly safe -- but the students at my university use it all the time

 

[rock_doctor]

Open office. I recommend it to my students all of the time and use OO exclusively. Even though i own a copy of MS Office (current version) i only use Open Office. It has their version of Word, Power Point, Access, Excel and so on.

http://www.openoffice.org/download/ <-- you want the green colored link

 

[JB2K]

Hotmail -- which is in the process of being re-tooled into Microsoft Outlook allows you to read any Word/Excel/PowerPoint attachments sent to you...

As these are proprietary to Microsoft, I would be suspicious of any "free" versions offered by anyone other than Microsoft.

 

[mymeme]

Open Office works for me!

 

[Marionnette]

Not free, but if you have a student in your household, they can purchase fully-licensed Microsoft software from JourneyEd or OnTheHub. The discount can be quite deep. Go to the Microsoft website. You'll find links to both websites there.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/buy/Pages/academicsavings.aspx

 

[rock_doctor]

Not free, but if you have a student in your household, they can purchase fully-licensed Microsoft software from JourneyEd or OnTheHub. The discount can be quite deep. Go to the Microsoft website. You'll find links to both websites there.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/buy/Pages/academicsavings.aspx

With a school ID you can get academic versions of most software (including windows 7 or 8) plus discounts on computers and All Apple products (iPods, computers, pads so on). Apple never asks for proof but the rest will. All you need to do is scan a copy of the id and send it to them or if they have a email with .edu at the end that will also work.

 

[crisi]

Google docs is another choice - online, so there isn't anything to download.

docs.google.com

I've used both OpenOffice and Google Docs. Either is a pretty good choice if you are looking for simple functionality. We have my kids do all their work in Google docs.