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On Monday I have a mini-conference at the Chamber of Commerce and I usually bring my laptop and make the presentation with Open Office (Impress) during my conference, seminars..., but the organizers of this mini-conference told me that it was not possible and that I just need to bring a USB key with a PowerPoint presentation file.

I've never used PowerPoint and I wonder if Impress is compatible with PowerPoint? I sometimes encounter problems when opening PowerPoint files I receive.

I might want to buy Microsoft Office, but if however Impress is running smoothly, I do not think it's worth. Also, if it does not work 100% sure, what version of Office you recommend (I have a PC win8) because there are two versions: 365 and 2013?

All comments, tips are welcome. Thank you.

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4webmaster

Ok looks like nobody here are using powerpoint, sorry for this post, I will have to google to find out more.

Rip57

Open Office Impress should allow you to save your file in PowerPoint format.

From their web page... "Of course, you are free to use your old Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, or save your work in PowerPoint format for sending to people who are still locked into Microsoft products. "

It'll either be a "Save As..." from the File menu or an Export...

Either way, after saving it you should head down to your public library (or some other site that has computers available and Powerpoint installed) and make sure things still look and act the way they did in Impress.

Gail_Curran

If you want to try Powerpoint out and see if you can import your Impress files, you can get a fully functional 30-day trial version for free. Just google it.

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mrjosco

This is your safest and most trustworthy solution. Microsoft allows a full 30 day trial - take advantage of it.

Impress should be compatible with power point, but there is always the potential of errors in file conversion.

Another thing to keep in mind - fonts. Sometimes your fonts will go with the presentation, sometimes they will not. I would be prepared for that and make sure you use standard fonts.

This happens most frequently if you use fancy custom fonts in Impress and then open in Powerpoint.

Silvio Porcellana

A solution I used when I had to use somebody's else computer for showing a presentation I built with OpenOffice was to save it as PDF.

All computers have a PDF viewer and you can open it full screen so - there you go, your presentation is as beautyfull as it should and you don't have to download/worry about anything

4webmaster

Wooooooh, back from my mobile show presentation and all was ok with the powerpoint presentation. I ve download the Office 2013 - free 60 days trial then save to ... older version of Powerpoint after slides completed.
Tried on several PC that have old PPT installed and work 100% great.
I think I will have to buy office 2013 in future.

The crowd in the room love it!

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Rip57

Glad to hear they liked it. Is there a version online we can look at?

4webmaster

I'm sorry but our PowerPoint presentation is made for our company as it will not really be useful and will not help you for conferences because the content it contains our customers and their mobile sites and also slides only display specific topics that most of the time you have to develop with speech and communicate with your audience.

For example there is an intro slide I created where you see two pictures of St-Pierre (search this forum for the photo) where the crowd does not have smartphones and a recent photo where you see a wave of smartphones. I show these pictures and say something like: Wow, isn't that amazing how mobile phones are everywhere?

I ask the audience: There are still some skeptics business owners on how mobile marketing can help! Now, who in this room has a smartphone "iphone, Samsung, Black Berry ..." who have one, raise your hand!

You see all the public raising his hand in most cases. Then you say something funny, I'm sure that skeptics are the ones that who do not have a smartphone and there are very few of them, okay .. Now, leave this room and go to buy a smartphone!

The audience laugh and applaud you ..

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mert

I think you wouldn't have a problem opening powerpoint presentation with Impress. But for the benefit of the doubt and like what Gail up there suggest, you can grab a 30 day trial period.

I personally like using powerpoint because it comes with more tools than impress that can make my presentation flashy and flexible. of course, like all good things, it comes with a price!

bwh1

If you wanna WOW your crowd, also take a look at PREZI

You can get one done using Fiverr

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tks

So, you tried both OpenOffice and MS Office. Which one you recommend for regular use?

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Some good pointers are to never use bullet points. It's a common mistake made by amateurs and makes the audience focused on the screen rather than you.

guyd

I was in a similiar situation so I screencasted my powerpoint and sent them the video to watch before I got there... went down a STORM...

Just helping out

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