How to show a PC Power Point on Mac

[wolffcreek]

I have created a powerpoint presentation on a pc using Microsoft 2010. My friend needs to use it on her Mac. I sent it as a ppt. pptx. and ppsx. She is unable to open or view any of these.
How do I save it to send to her?
What must she do to view and show it?
Thanks

 

[Nermal]

Do you know which version of PowerPoint she has (if any)?

 

[GGJstudios]

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/mac-platform/articles/114829.aspx

You may also be able to view it with Quick Look, by selecting the file in Finder and pressing the space bar. However, formatting may be off from a little to a lot.

If the Mac user is running Lion, they'll be able to use Preview to view it.

 

[wolffcreek]

I do not know. Her mac is only about 4 months old and she is new to mac. I had her call the help line and they had her install some software, but she says she still cannot open any of the pp

 

[AppleDApp]

technically it should work. I haven't had any issues.

 

[Hansr]

Quick Look will throw formatting off but the easiest option other than buying Office 2011 is to just grab the trial for it or iWork and use PP2011 or Keynote.

 

[Tumbleweed666]

If she just needs to view it, save it as pdf and send her that.

 

[Daffodil]

If she just needs to view it, save it as pdf and send her that.

Yeah, that's a pretty elegant solution assuming she doesn't need to edit them.

Check with her whether she has Microsoft Office installed, though. It isn't automatically included when you purchase a mac, but if she's very apple-naive, she might not have known that, and therefore doesn't have a program to read the file. Because if she has Powerpoint installed, there's no reason she should have issues with the files...