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Last night my non-profit organization had a guest speaker. We had a multimedia projector, but the speaker just brought a flash drive with a PowerPoint presentation file on it. No laptop. So mine got pressed into service. I do not have PowerPoint on my computer. I do have the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, which is quite good and allowed us to view the speaker's PowerPoint presentation just fine. I'd give the Viewer an A.
I asked the speaker if I could keep a copy of the PowerPoint file, and he said yes.
So today I was playing around with the file and, just for the heck of it, loaded it into OpenOffice (more specifically, OpenOffice Impress). It sort of displayed the PowerPoint "slides," but very poorly. I'd give it a D.
Then I loaded the file into LibreOffice Impress. I was quite surprised to see that it did a very good job of displaying the PowerPoint "slides," almost as good as the MS PP Viewer. The only noticeable "flaw" was that the slides took 4 or 5 seconds to fully "load." After that, they were fine.
I was quite surprised by this, since I thought OpenOffice and LibreOffice were basically the same thing.
But their performance with the PowerPoint file was dramatically different.
I asked the speaker if I could keep a copy of the PowerPoint file, and he said yes.
So today I was playing around with the file and, just for the heck of it, loaded it into OpenOffice (more specifically, OpenOffice Impress). It sort of displayed the PowerPoint "slides," but very poorly. I'd give it a D.
Then I loaded the file into LibreOffice Impress. I was quite surprised to see that it did a very good job of displaying the PowerPoint "slides," almost as good as the MS PP Viewer. The only noticeable "flaw" was that the slides took 4 or 5 seconds to fully "load." After that, they were fine.
I was quite surprised by this, since I thought OpenOffice and LibreOffice were basically the same thing.
But their performance with the PowerPoint file was dramatically different.
