Norris Science Department

There are several resources that you may need in order to view all of the files on staff web sites that use PowerPoint, Interactive web pages with spreadsheets, etc...

Many of the spreadsheets are published using The Microsoft Office Web Components.  This allows them to be interactive with the user.  The bad news is that you need to have Microsoft Office installed on your computer with the The Microsoft Office Web Components installed.  If you do not own a Office License you can still install the tools, but they will not be interactive. (you can install these component of Office from your Office disk, or you can download them for the Internet.

Here are the download links for these components:

Office 2003

Office XP

Technical overview of the Office Web Components.

If you do not own Microsoft office, you can still view the PowerPoint's and files by downloading these viewers:

PowerPoint Viewer 2003
Brief Description
PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
 

Word 2003 Viewer

Word Viewer 2003 lets you open Word 2003 documents and documents that are created in all earlier versions of Microsoft Office Word for Windows and Microsoft Office Word for Macintosh.

By using the viewer, you can view, print, and copy document contents to another program. However, you cannot make a change to a document that is open, save a document, or create a new document.

You cannot run macros or use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in any version of Word Viewer.

Open Office

If you do not own office you may want to check out Open Office. Open Office is a complete Office Suite that can open Word, Excel and PowerPoints.  This suite is a free office program that offers many nice features for the price.