running PowerPoint Viewer on a strange computer -- requirements

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grammatim

I'm giving my first PowerPoint presentation on Saturday morning and
the organizers haven't been able to come up with a laptop to run the
projector that they do have.

I have the offer of the loan of an "older" laptop for the occasion.
(No specs provided yet.)

What are the minimum system, memory, etc. requirements needed to run a
presentation that's been Packaged onto a CD? This doesn't seem to
mentioned in Office Help or in my giant aftermarked manual (in the
"Using" series).

Thank you.
 
Hi Grammatim

How strange that they have a projector but no laptop... Anyway, see here for
2003 viewer requirements:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en
and here for 2007:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...40-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

How well the powerpoint will run will depend on what the file is like - does
it have video, sound, lots of animation, electronically large pictures etc.
My advice would be to get there early, save the presentation to the laptop's
hard-drive (rather than running from CD) and run through the presentation
once so it's cached (so don't close the viewer after running through).

Without knowing more about the presentation and the laptop it's hard to say
whether you're going to have problems or not. But *always* be prepared for
your beautifully prepared powerpoint file not to run - lost cds, laptop
problems, powercuts, military coups... So have a back-up plan and be prepared
to present without visual aids :-)

Lucy
 
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