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This serves not only as an informational presentation about good office freeware but also as a test of a new Google Docs feature that allows Powerpoint presentations to be imbedded in blogs and webpages. Note that the three suites mentioned (OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and IBM Lotus Symphony) that can create presentations will all save those presentations in .ppt format. In fact, the presentation shown was created in StarOffice using a free downloaded template before being uploaded to Google Docs.

A full-screen version of this presentation is available here for those that are interested.

Need more information? Here’s a great article from PC Magazine on The Best Office Alternatives.

Edit 11/22/2008: 

Google has dropped StarOffice from the Google Pack, with no explanation as to why. 

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