help with viewer for a student

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Jenifer

Hello
I have tried for without success to send an email to
someone in Microsoft that could possibly help me with my
question. Before I get to my question or rather
compliant, I'd like to address the general Microsoft
website. It is designed to be virtually impersonal. No
contact names or addresses or advice on where to begin to
get your questions answered by a real person. Now to my
question, which you can probably not help me with because
I need to talk to someone regarding Microsoft service on
their products. I am a student at U of T and need to
download slides from classes using powerpoint viewer.
However I need to reconfigure the slides so I can fit
more than one on a printed page. I can not afford Power
Point as it is outrageously overpriced and I also only
need it for one thing as indicated. Can you please
forward this email to someone who can help me and not
just disregardit.
Thank you
Jenifer Hoffmann
 
The Viewer will only let you print the individual slides, one per page.
There is special pricing for PowerPoint and the Office Suite, available for
qualified students and educators. Maybe your campus book store can tell you
their price. Microsoft has a book store locator and the site says that the
prices are steeply discounted - -
http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=HowToBuyConsumer. It's worth a shot.

BTW, come back here if you do get PowerPoint. This is a friendly
environment with users just like you who help one another.
 
Two options:
1) Have you investigated the Academic versions? They are priced for
students, but are still full functioned versions.
2) If you really can't afford to buy presentation software, then you should
investigate OpenOffice. It can be downloaded from the OpenOffice website (
http://www.openoffice.org ). It is the open source version of Star Office.
While it doesn't do everything that PowerPoint does, it should meet your
needs for printing.
3) Use your printers ability to print two pages on one sheet. Not all
printers can do this, but it is worth checking.

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I am a student at U of T and need to
download slides from classes using powerpoint viewer.
However I need to reconfigure the slides so I can fit
more than one on a printed page. I can not afford Power
Point as it is outrageously overpriced and I also only
need it for one thing as indicated.
Click to expand...

I can make a guess why you might want more than one per page, but it's
better if you tell us. Maybe there's a way to get from here to there,
depending on what you want to do and why.

Is it possible the professor can provide the files in a different format?
It's not all that hard to put several slides on a single page and turn that
into a PDF file...the professor should be able to do that or get it done.

John O
 
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