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I chose Zoho Writer to create an account, and found this to be an excellent site for producing online word processing documents. The features are comprehensive and allow for numerous presentation formats and the use of color and bolded text.

Also, the Sun Microsystems suite of free programs is very beneficial. The set of programs is called Star OpenOffice, and can be downloaded for quick usage. The OpenOffice suite of programs includes a word-processing program, a spreadsheet program, and a presentation program that have the look and feel of MS Office 2003. The files are similar to the MS 2003 office as well as capable of being saved in MS Word, Excell, and PowerPoint format.

I teach English writing and have several students that do not have MS Office on their computers at home. They are required to create one presentation to be presented via PowerPoint. I had a student that brought her laptop to school, but was concerned that OpenOffice Presenter would not work if she saved to to her thumb-drive and tried to run it from my desktop computer and into the PowerPoint projector. I reviewed her storage options and noticed the Save As command that included MS PowerPoint 2003 as an option. I told her to store the presentation in MS PowerPoint 2003, and it played perfectly.

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