There is a free PowerPoint viewer that allows you to view PowerPoint presentations but not create or edit them. If you want to create presentations you need to buy Office or PowerPoint. If you are looking for a free solution try Open Office. Here is a link that might be useful: PowerPoint Viewer

I got that but now I just have a page of the pics and I can't figure out how to get it back to play the slide show. I thought I had it but it just played the first 2 or 3 pics and then quit going forward to any more. I had to shut down the computer to get out of it. It is so many years since I did this that I sure apparently need help. any advice you can give me is very much appreciated.

1. Try importing the slides from the PPTX file rather than actually opening it. Click "Insert," then "Slides From Files." Browse to and select your file, then click "Insert All." This might extract the slides from the corrupted file and place them in a fresh file, though the formatting may be lost. Checking the "Keep source formatting" box might help. 2. Try opening the presentation in Word. Open Word and click "Open" in the "File" menu. Use the "Files of type" drop-down menu to select "Recover Text From Any File," then try to open your corrupted PowerPoint file. Again, most of your formatting will probably be lost, but your data will be there. 3. Check for a TMP file. These are temporary copies of recently accessed files. There may or may not be a temporary copy of the file you want, but it's worth a shot. Right-click the "Start" button, then click "Search," and run a search for "*.TMP." The search will return many files, most of them probably with incomprehensible names. Click the "Date Modified" button to sort them according to the last time they were edited and find a file that was created around the time you lost the PowerPoint file. Try to open this in PowerPoint. 4. Try opening the file in a different application that supports the PPTX format. The most prominent of these is the Impress program in the OpenOffice suite, a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. 5. Otherwise you may apply http://www.pptx.openfiletool.com/ PPTX Open File Tool

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