PowerPoint

Microsoft makes PowerPoint viewers available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Windows Viewer: office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx

Macintosh Viewer: www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/powerpoint98viewer.asp

Users of Windows, GNU/Linux or Solaris may wish to use Sun OpenOffice.org which contains a program to view/run PowerPoint presentations. In the case where an appropriate PowerPoint viewer is not available, the HTML and/or PDF versions will provide adequate replacements.

Acrobat/PDF

Adobe Acrobat viewers for:-

Microsoft Windows XP and Vista

Adobe Reader

Apple Macintosh

Mac 68k Platforms (BinHex)
Macintosh System 7.5.3
Mac OS 8.1-8.5
Mac OS 8.6-9.0
Mac OS 9.1 - X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.2

Other Platforms

GNU/Linux (x86)
Solaris SPARC
AIX
HP-UX
OS/2 Warp

Viewers with visual difficulties may find it useful to investigate services provided to improve the accessibility of Acrobat documents: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/index.html

Users of GNU/Linux may wish to use Xpdf which can be found from at www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Also, a free software program, Ghostview, which can view/create PDF files, can be found at www.gnu.org/software/ghostview/

ZIP files

Some documents are "zipped" - usually where HTML documents are provided with many pages and images. Modern releases of Windows contain built in software for decompressing archives, however not all users will have one.

InfoZip, is completely free and available on almost all versions of Unix, VMS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/etc. (a.k.a. Win32), Windows 3.x, Windows CE, MS-DOS, AmigaDOS, Atari TOS, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS and Mac OS. In addition, graphical frontends are available for Windows and Mac OS

Stuffit Expander, available for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and Solaris - www.stuffit.com/expander

WinZip, available for Windows - www.winzip.com

Office Documents

Microsoft Windows

Word Viewer for Microsoft Windows: office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/wd97vwr32.aspx

Excel Viewer for Microsoft Windows: office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/xlviewer.aspx