View and Print Full-Featured Presentations Without the MS Power Point

As a Small and Medium Enterprise, if you are not leveraging the power of free technology, which is being provided by some of the top technology vendors in the world, then you definitely are missing something. Innovation is the name of the game and if as an emerging business you are not upto it, then you surely have lots of catching up to do. SMEs require solutions which solve their very many needs, while being cost effective and within their operational budgets.

Free and Low Cost Technology Solutions for SMEs

There are many low cost technology solutions available for small and emerging enterprises, though not many are really aware of them. Technology makers and vendors are coming up with innovative solutions, some of them  free which are helping SMEs solve pending business challenges. SMEs have to keep exploring and implementing such solutions to reduce operational costs and be smarter in business functionalities.

Let PowerPoint Viewer work for you!

While Microsoft Word is an important office productivity software, it also makes it challenging for smaller businesses to buy costly licences to the MS Office productivity suite. Buying licenses for every team member becomes a challenge which obviously needs a solution. And who better than Microsoft coming up and providing a solution to the challenge.

While you cannot edit, but MS PowerPoint Viewer, allows you to View, print and copy full featured documents, even if you don't have MS PowerPoint installed. The Word Viewer, together with the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats, allows you open full featured PowerPoint presentations created in the following MS office programs:

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
• Microsoft PowerPoint 97

How do I get the PowerPoint Viewer?

You can simply download the PowerPoint Viewer from the official source of the Microsoft website. Once you start downloading the software onto your local machine, follow the below listed instructions:

1. Download the file by clicking the Download button (above) and saving the file to your hard disk.
2. Double-click the PowerPointViewer.exe program file on your hard disk to start the setup program.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation

Once you have the Compatibility pack downloaded and installed on your local machine (laptop/ desktop) use the following instructions to learn how to use the software:

1. On the File menu, click Open.
2. In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file you want to open.
3. In the folder list, locate the file, or locate and open the folder that contains the file.
4. Click the file, and then click Open.

Once you have installed this download, from the Start menu under All Programs, open Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer.

PowerPoint Viewer registers with the .ppt, .pptx, .pptm, .pot, .potx, .potm, .pps, .ppsx and .ppsm file extensions only if a version of PowerPoint is not installed on your computer. If registered, double-clicking on these file types will launch PowerPoint Viewer

How does this software help my business?

While it does not allows you to edit and create documents, Windows PowerPoint Viewer allows you to view, print and copy the PowerPoint presentations, which is important in the manner that, small companies which cannot afford the licensed version of the MS office, can go buy a single license, and use the viewer on the other systems which require only being a dumb machine and are connected to the server to fetch any information. Its more a networked solution, which works best for SMEs.

There are many such tools available online, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!