OpenOffice
If you do not have Microsoft Office on your computer, you may have OpenOffice instead (available from www.openoffice.org.nz or through Dick Smith stores for $5). The Open Office version of PowerPoint is called Presentation, and it should open these PowerPoint files automatically for you.
PowerPoint Viewer
If
PowerPoint 2003 or higher is not available on your computer, Microsoft have provided a
PowerPoint Viewer which will display these files and most of the animations.
Supported Operating Systems for PowerPoint Viewer
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 3
- Windows 98 Second Edition
- Windows ME
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows XP
If you have one of these systems, install PowerPoint Viewer by double clicking on the self extracting exe file
ppviewer in the Software folder of this CD.
PowerPoint for Mac users
Macintosh users should download PowerPoint 98 Viewer for Macintosh
here.
Viewing the PowerPoint shows
To advance each screen or portion of the screen do one of the following:
- click once with the mouse
- tap the space bar, 'N' on the keyboard, or the Enter key
- tap the right or down arrow key
- roll the wheel on your mouse one click forward.
To see the previous screen:
- roll the wheel of your mouse backwards
- tap the left or up arrow key
- tap the backspace key or the 'P' key
To escape from the show before the final screen, tap the Esc key.
Many of the more complex screens are designed to show you one sentence or line of the calculation at a time. Sometimes these will appear at about 1 second intervals, and other times you will need to click to see the next portion. These animations work properly in PowerPoint 2003, but do not always function properly with PowerPoint Viewer or OpenOffice Presentation. If you are using one of these substitutes for PowerPoint 2003 you may sometimes need to click 3 or 4 times before seeing anything -- then you will see the whole screen at once. So if nothing happens after you've clicked, just click again.
Some of the PowerPoint shows for organic chemistry include short movies which require additional software to play. If you have suitable software on your computer, the movies should play when you click on them inside PowerPoint. If you have problems viewing the movies within PowerPoint, try opening them separately via the PowerPoint folder. The movies will play using Windows Media Player, or you can download the free basic RealPlayer from here
(don't download the fully-featured premium player unless you want to pay for it).