This is interesting to me as I just used Corel Presentations for the first
time this week.  I can't help with converting it to another format.  In
fact I'd like to know how to move a director file into Presentations.  If
she's using Corel she probably has the Word Perfect Suite and is a PC
person, Presentations is part of the suite.  One thing I have wondered
about is how the fancy backgrounds would translate from one program to the
next.  They may be importable as image files as backgrounds by themselves,
and then reassembled in PowerPoint.  On the other hand, it might be best to
have her save word slides as plain text, and then pick a similar background
already in PP.  She may also have to reassemble all of her images
separately in PP, after getting a close idea of what she wants in
Presentations.  Hope this helps a little and someone can answer both your
questions and mine.

                                                        Miriam

  At 07:14 AM 12/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Good morning all!  I have my classes give presentations using PowerPoint
[use
>what's available!] but one youngling has Corel Presentations captive at
home
>and would prefer to use that instead.  "No problem" says I, as long as you
>convert it to a format we can use here.  Unfortunately, she is quite the
>novice at computerese, and I don't have documentation or personal
experience
>with C. Presentations to lead her by the hand.  She's tried twice, but I
don't
>think she understands how to do what I'm asking her to do.
>
>Is there an easy way to convert between the two? Final platform is in the
>Office 97 version of PowerPoint.
>
>Infinite thanks!
>
>Susan Loder
>now at Ashland-Greenwood High School, valiantly teaching science
>