[OT] convert CWK to PowerPoint or OpenOffice

[Peter Haworth]

Richard,
I haven't used its Presentation tool, but Google docs has served me well for both word processing and Spreadsheets and can import/Export in WOrd/OO format for those types of docs.

Pete Haworth

On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Thank you Marty, Paul, and esp. Thomas with this generous offer:
> 
> > Richard, If you don't find a solution please feel free to send
> > them to me and I will be glad to convert them for you. I have
> > iWork and PPT but no longer have Appleworks. If I don't need
> > the AW and can open them in iWork then go ahead and send them
> > to me. I'm up for another hour or so here tonight.
> 
> For the moment we've decided to just print to PDF from the Mac and use the PDF player's presentation mode to run it.  Since it just need to be run on Window and not edited there, the PDF option works well for now.
> 
> Later on we'll migrate all of the old CWKs to a new format - and definitely not one from a sole-source proprietary vendor, but will be using OpenOffice for storage going forward.  At this point every serious tool supports OO in an out, and being open source OO can never die.
> 
> Thanks again for the tips, and Thomas your generosity is much appreciated here.
> 
> - Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World
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