Google Docs now with Presentations
The title of the post says it all, really. The news is slowly making its way through the tech blogs.
I just tried uploading a file saved as Powerpoint (ugh) from OpenOffice. First attempt – server error. Second attempt – success. On the whole, the import preserved formatting pretty well, except for some text formatting (spacing changes, tab stops vanish). Two attempts to display the online slideshow have resulted in a black window with no slides. Oh, and you can only save as zipped HTML.
Early days – let’s hope they iron out the bugs and introduce OpenOffice import/export soon.
Early days indeed. I was surprised that it started out with so little functionalities. Google page creator looks more like a presentation tool than this one. I would only create one directly there if I have no time to do in on a offline app.
I think powerpoint is one of the few things I still like about Microsoft office :) I know this might sound bad ;), but the tools it has to make good looking slides are really ahead of open office.
Pedro Beltrao
September 18, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Really?
I find powerpoint bloated and all the fancy stuff breaks down when u open in a different version of ppt.
even mac and winxp ppts can’t agree with each other sometimes.
KevinL
September 19, 2007 at 10:09 pm