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From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac -> PC PowerPoint
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.083029.9697@silvlis.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 08:30:29 GMT
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In article <2306@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> legg@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) writes:
>
>  Calling any users of Powerpoint for Mac and/or PC.
>
>  Microsoft went to a great trouble to say that PowerPoint for Windows
>could read PowerPoint for Macintosh files in all of the advertising
>literature about it.
>
>  My question is - has anyone managed to get this to work?

No, but...

Microsoft Office for Windows (which includes PowerPoint) came with
a card to obtain "free" Apple File Exchange Translators for PowerPoint.
For only $4.50 shipping and handling.

I mailed the card today. We'll see.

jim

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