Question, Please Help with This Powerpoint Problem?

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Gordon Gekko IDCC on the Nasdaq

I have powerpoint on an old laptop that is not very good, how do i
transfer it to my new laptop, i have no startup disk, is it even
possible?

Thanks for your time.
 
Hi Gordon,

I assume you mean a PowerPoint presentation and not the program itself.

I will further assume, because someone somewhere has to say the old assume
cliché, that the PPT file is larger than will fit onto a floppy disk.

One option is to use WinZip's span disk feature. It will write the PPT to a
series of floppies. Or even Pack & Go, a PowerPoint option on some
versions, to do the same multi-floppy-disk save.

It also depends on what your machine can connect to. If it is an older
machine, but can connect to a network, then directly loading the file to
another computer works. Or maybe just the internet, then you may be able to
e-mail yourself the presentation. Or maybe connect a thumbdrive/Zip
Drive/Jazz Drive/CD Burner (if it has a working USB port), or a serial to
serial direct connection (you may need your OS disk to install the feature).

Let us know what all you have tried, so we don't repeat what you have
already done.


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And, I assume that you mean that you have the PowerPoint program on your old
laptop and want to install it on your new laptop. Without the original
installation CD you can't do it, unfortunately. I'm afraid that you will
have to purchase the software, and without the original CD you'll have to
purchase the full version, not the upgrade.
 
If you have a license (and license number), you could call Microsoft support
and ask them if they can provide a new CD?
 
-----Original Message-----
I have powerpoint on an old laptop that is not very good, how do i
transfer it to my new laptop, i have no startup disk, is it even
possible?

Thanks for your time.
.
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Cannot do it.
 
Well, it actually could be done using Symantec Ghost but you'd have to
create an image of the whole drive and put that on the new machine. I
don't think you probably will want to do this just to get the
PowerPoint Program but just had to say that it could be done (g).
Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
 
MS MVP Brian Reilly said:
Well, it actually could be done using Symantec Ghost but you'd have to
create an image of the whole drive and put that on the new machine. I
don't think you probably will want to do this just to get the
PowerPoint Program but just had to say that it could be done (g).
Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
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Of course, then the new drive would have the version of Windows from the old
computer, probably including drivers for hardware that's not present on the new
box and no drivers for the hardware that IS on the new box.

Yeah, you could move all the bytes, but you prolly couldn't get 'em to boot up.
 
Or you could move that Ghost partition to a new Virtual PC system - or you
could use VMWare? <g>
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Nah, you'd have the same problem. VMWare/VPC both assume a certain set of
hardware, in this case virtual/emulated hardware. If the copy of Windows
you're ghosting doesn't match up, it makes messes.

Though here's a thought -- ghost the PC with PPT, then install Windows into it
again so that Windows can autodetect the new hardware?

Sure sounds tricky. Easier, I think, to buy a copy of PPT on eBay. ;-)
 
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