Don’ t have a copy of PowerPoint? You can open that presentation in Keynote, and then you can then save it in PowerPoint format.
If you use Microsoft PowerPoint on your Mac, you can save the presentations you create and open them in Keynote, Apple’s presentation app. It’s a handy feature to use in case you can’ t access Microsoft’s apps—not to mention that Microsoft recently announced that its Office apps won’ t have “formal” support for Apple macOS High Sierra operating system.
Every Mac comes with Apple’s iWork apps: Pages (word processor) , Numbers (spreadsheet) , and Keynote (presentations) . And these apps can import Office documents. Here’s how you can open Word documents in Pages, as well as export Pages documents for use in Word.
This procedure works with .pptx and .ppt file formats.
Before you start working on your presentation, look it over carefully. Formatting may have changed and you may have to fix it. There’s always a chance that so much happened during the import that you can’ t use your presentation.
If you’ ve been working in Pages and will eventually return to Word, you can export your document as a Word file. Here’s how.
Here are some key points to know about running Office apps on macOS High Sierra.
This story, “How to open Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in Apple Keynote on a Mac” was originally published by Macworld.
