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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> I've sat through several PowerPoint presentations,
> but I've never actually tried composing a genuine
> PowerPoint (I've been using MagicPoint for every
> presentation I do).  I recently got an old laptop
> ($5) which happened to have PowerPoint 4 on it, so
> I decided to try it out just to see how it compared
> to MagicPoint.  I was disappointed.
>
> PowerPoint 4 was less capable than the MagicPoint
> in BL3 for doing the type of presentations I do.

What features do you find useful?  I have never used either program.

> Yes, PowerPoint is more user-friendly.  Yes, PowerPoint
> has pre-programmed templates that make it simple to
> create your pages.  Yes, PowerPoint has lots of help
> pages and documentation.  But, when it comes to actually
> putting the presentation on the screen, PowerPoint 4
> lacks an important capability that is in MagicPoint.
>
> I think PowerPoint is now up to version 7 or 8, so this
> capability has probably been added.  But I was surprised
> to find that the pathetic little MagicPoint on the BL3
> floppy was more capable (in one important way) than
> PowerPoint 4.

I just downloaded http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml 
source code, which compiled on the first try to produce xlhtml (Excel 
convertor) and ppthtml (Powerpoint convertor).   There are online 
convertors from HTML to Powerpoint.  Magicpoint can be converted to HTML.
It seems to be a very popular program.

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
>
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