I wanted to update, I just read here about an open office program, but from reading that, I am now worried my old doc need to be all converted to the new office 2007. I saved money buying the student version so it only like 120 dollars on Amazon, but the full version with outlook is super expensive. I never liked outlook. I use gmail and windows calander. It's a new calander on vista. Any suggestions will be appreciated. When I get the new office 2007 student can I help my friend out by reading her old apple files? Will it be able to read apples files, because I heard the newer windows and apple would be compatable. She has some old apple files, she can't read on her new apple computer.

If you want to view the presentation and save photos from it I find that I can do so using OpenOffice. After installing open office (which is free) I find that I can save a PowerPoint presentation to my computer, right click on it and select 'open with' and pick open office and it opens in the impress module of open office. The pictures are in a row on the left and I can select one then right click and copy and paste it into paint or another graphics program and save it into a folder on my computer. I don't know if you can do this with powerpoint viewer or not as I have never used it.

What was the suffix on the original email you could not open? Was it .pps - .ppt - or was there an additional x on the end of either suffix? You cannot simply change a suffix, all that does is ruin the file entirely. If you have MS Office you do not need Open Office. However if it is an older version (97, 2000 or 2003) and you receive a PowerPoint 2007 presentation it may not work. You can download the stand alone player from Microsoft from the link below. Take a look here and see if that cures your problem. PowerPoint presentations are among the best emails you can get in my opinion. The program was and still is basically a program for the office environment but many have found it an excellent way to show off family or scenery photos. Here is a link that might be useful: PowerPoint 2007 player

chisue here is a link that explains who will be able to freeze their credit in 2007. www.suntimes.com/business/currency/185575,CST-FIN-c-theft25.article It is just my opinion, but I think nationwide credit freezes are long overdue. Consumers shouldn't have to wait until they have been ripped off in order to be able to protect themselves. Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG consumer program director said it well. "The three credit reporting agencies oppose credit freezes because they think consumers' credit information is their product to sell. They make money every time they sell your information to banks, mortgage brokers, car dealerships and other retailers. Of course they don't want consumers to have control over their credit files; it takes away their bread and butter." It seems that the credit bureaus could care less how many people are being ripped off so long as they can keep making money. I think what the credit bureaus are doing is a racket. Definition of the word racket, "A business that makes money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed." In this case the "solution" is the credit monitoring services they charge us for. We get to pay them to see who they sold us out to. They are making money coming and going but we are the ones paying the price when it falls into the wrong hands. I really don't mind waiting a couple days for a freeze to be lifted in order to apply for a mortgage, credit cards, etc. I'd rather do this than worry about who is buying my information for ill gains. I think it is better to keep the barn door locked before the horse escapes. Not try to fix it after the fact. Data Breaches 2006 idtheft.about.com/od/dataandstat1/a/2006_breaches.htm Loan officer steals information from clients www.gazettes.com/identitytheft12212006.html Employers Beware: 50 Percent of all Identity Thefts Reported from Work www.eveningtribune.com/articles/2006/12/30/ara/education_and_careers/733.txt