Is there a good way to view PowerPoint presentations on the iPad? We have a huge library of PPTs, most with highly complex animations. The sales staff are moving to iPad, but they only have Keynote at the moment, which makes a complete pigs ear of displaying the presentations - formating goes out the window, some slides have round bullets, others square, lines are in the wrong place etc.

And when it gets to animations, Keynote makes it even worse; allegedly, the animations, which start by hiding 40 or 50 objects on the slide, before making them appear and animating them, then hiding them again, Keynote doesn't bother to hide all the hidden elements, so you can't actually see anything useful on the slide!

At the moment, I am busy turning the animated slides into dozens of static slides and generating a PDF, so that they can at least show the customers something.

I should be getting the company iMac next week and can start converting some of the presentations to KeyNote, but that is going to be a long process, so I need a solution for the transition period.

Most of the search results say either use Keynote or generate PDFs/JPEGs from the presentation.

Also, how "true" is Keynote on the iPad, compared to Keynote under OS X? If I make a Keynote using advanced features on the desktop, will they be displayed 100% accurately on the iPad, or are there limitations to take into account there?

Could you save your PPT as a PPS and then use SlideShark to view it on the iPad (I saw this as an answer elsewhere so can't vouch for whether it would be any better than Keynote).

HTH

Isn't a PPS just a PPT file with a different extension?

Perhaps something like QuickOffice might do, or even Google Docs?

Google Docs is even more hopeless. It totally removes the animations and it screws the formatting up even more than Keynote does.

I came across SlideShark after I posted, I'll get the sales rep to take a look. The problem is, he is on his was to Frankfurt for a show and I am stuck at base without access to an iPad... The presentations work perfectly on my Samsung ATIV tablet.

But, you brought me to a new track... I uploaded it into SkyDrive and Firefox and Chrome display the presentation 100% correctly under Office365 online.

Edit: Hmm, tried it on my Galaxy, I can view the individual slides, but Chrome there doesn't have the option to show the presentation...

They are similar but different. PPS is a PowerPoint slideshow that does not require PowerPoint to run. PPT requires PowerPoint

Aye, but I always just changed the extension, never done a save as.

EDIT: It always used to work, but it appears that no longer works in PowerPoint 2007 :/

.pps can be turned into ppt.

Never tried it with Open Doc files.