Very rarely do I need Powerpoint or M/S Word to open certain e-mail attachments, a buddy of mine is bummed out because I'm unable to open a recent attachment. I've used both in the past on a trial basis,and found they were ok, but I can't see paying for a program that I seldom use. Anyone know of any freebies?

I think you mean PowerPoint Viewer is free. PowerPoint is not free.

Indeed, the link is correct. It's the "And Powerpoint is free." you wrote that is incorrect.

I guess so.

you could use open office too it's like a free ms office you can get it here: http://www.openoffice.org/

You can get stand-alone viewers for all Office products free from Microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/en.....11033.aspx

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more.

@pipo: No, not really any difference in this case. You would still need PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer to open a .pps file.

If one distributes a Word 2007 file to the "general public", it is convenient to store them in PDF format (which is an add-on to Word 2007 http://office.microsoft.com/en.....21033.aspx ). I also use this option to send photos over the internet because it reduces the byte count significantly (factor 10 to 50 is possible depending on original filetype and packaging). I don't think this option exists for PPx files though.
PS: Office 2007 Home and Student is on sale this week For $100 at BestBuy (regular price $149)

My thanks again for the links provided. I was able to download Word and P/P viewer onto my Vista machine,and the programs work.