Internet Tips: Purge Unwanted Spam the 18th-Century Way
Use Bayesian filtering to reduce the amount of junk e-mail in your in-box, read PowerPoint files without installing massive PowerPoint software.
Scott Spanbauer
Free PowerPoint Viewer
I've never created a PowerPoint presentation in my life, and I don't have the program on my PC even though it has been in most of the editions of Microsoft Office I've bought. Nevertheless, someone occasionally asks that I review an important piece of information in the form of a PowerPoint file (either as an e-mail attachment or embedded in a Web page). Instead of installing a huge program I'll seldom use, I open the file with Microsoft's free 2.72MB PowerPoint viewer.
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