[ale] (MS)Office viewer recommendations

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:15 -0400, Sean Craig wrote:
> For windows M$ actually offers free viewers for Word, Excel, and
> PowerPoint. I do like using OpenOffice.org though it is difficult to
> print handouts for presentations.

I like the OO thing of save the presentation to a web version. 

Yes, printing a presentation from OO is a chore since it is designed to
be electronic to begin with. But the trick is to use landscape format
and shrink it a tad (~92%) then it fits the page nicely. Another trick
is to use the per-slide notes and those can be printed off nicely as
well.
> 
> Sean C.
> 
> On 9/28/07, Evan Pitstick <bikingnerd at comcast.net> wrote:
>         There has been a lot of talk about OpenOffice. That is what I
>         would use.
>         It has a great cousin for mac called NeoOffice. They are all
>         open/free
>         and are top quality in my opinion.
>         
>         On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:07 -0400, Ken Cochran wrote: 
>         > Hi ALErs:
>         >
>         > Any recommendations (good or bad) for (hopefully free)
>         viewers
>         > for MSWord, Excel & maybe Powerpoint for Linux/BSD, MacOSX &
>         > for that matter, Windows itself?  (as in I don't want to
>         run 
>         > MSOffice even on Windows? :) Especially need something for
>         > OSX but I'd think that would likely cover Linux & BSD
>         {shrug}.
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         >
>         > -kc
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