Power Point

[Kgrayz]

Hi I've created a power point using my work computer saved it onto a usb stick come home tried it to open the power point on laptop and it won't work

Help please

[HansUrbancka]

Please explain further. What sort of 'Power Point' have you created.?

Hans.

[Kgrayz]

I've created a power point on a topic for an interview on my works computer I have 365

I've tried to load the usb doc on laptop at home

[bednobs]

do you actually have PP installed on your home computer?

[Buenchico]

Home computers are usually supplied either without Microsoft Office or with a version of Office that doesn't include PowerPoint. So the obvious question for us to ask is 'Have you actually got PowerPoint on your computer?'

If you've not got PowerPoint on your computer you can view and edit the presentation using Microsoft's free PowerPoint Online facility:
https://office.live.com/start/PowerPoint.aspx

Alternatively you can install a free office suite that's capable of handling Microsoft PowerPoint formats. The most popular one is Apache OpenOffice, where Impress is the program you use in place of PowerPoint:
https://office.live.com/start/PowerPoint.aspx

If you actually have got PowerPoint on your computer, please tell us about any error messages you see when trying to open the presentation. (Alternatively, just use one of the solutions above anyway).

[chelle7272]

Yes you will need powerpoint installed on your laptop, as you would Word or Excel. Not all Office packages have it

[Guilbert53]

Note you can save a Powerpoint presentation as a self running program that does NOT need Powerpoint installed to run it.

I used to do this at work when I created a Powerpoint presentation to give to people who did not have Powerpoint installed.

Check the Powerpoint options on your version of Powerpoint or search Google for "self running Powerpoint presentation" or phrases like that.

[Guilbert53]

An update to my reply above.

It is not a self running that you want (that is for having at a trade fair or similar where the slide show runs automatically without human interaction)

However you CAN create a Powerpoint presentation that can run without Powerpiont being installed, I just cant remember the actual details as I have not done it for a while.

I seem to remember it was creating it as an EXE file but not sure how.

[Buenchico]

As Guilbert says, it's possible to create a presentation which can be viewed without PowerPoint. (Instructions here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83 ).

However such a presentation can't be edited without PowerPoint. (You need PowerPoint itself, PowerPoint Online or a third-party program, such as OpenOffice Impress, to carry out any editing you want to do on a PowerPoint presentation).

[Kgrayz]

Avatar Image thank you I managed to use one of the links u sent

I've altered and amended certain parts will this be saved to the usb stick

Just when I go for my Interview in a few days I'm worried it won't open

Thanks for replies

[fiction-factory]

I would check with the place where youa re being interviewed. Some places now have closed off the drives that USB sticks go in to prevent viruses or more often to stop staff extracting confidential data. Check whether they accept USBs and which version of powerpoint they have. Or you could email them the presentation to them and ask them to confirm that it could be opened and made available to you.

[Tilly2]

Good luck with it all. I hope it goes well for you.

[AZardoz]

As Chico said, try OpenOffice
https://www.openoffice.org/
or LibreOffice
https://www.libreoffice.org/
However, you're missing the point. Things like PowerPoint should be banned.
Please do not inflict that crap on humanity.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-hate-PowerPoint

[Tilly2]

All I can say is that I am so glad that I don't have to do this sort of thing anymore. Oh, the stress!