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Now you can open PowerPoint attachments as slideshows, without having to download anything. Just click “View as slideshow” next to the .ppt attachment you want to preview. Since you can open .doc and .xls attachments with Google Docs and Spreadsheets too, there’s no need to leave your web browser to check out your Gmail attachments.

GMail now has an inbuilt PPT viewer that lets you view Powerpoint attachment as a Flash picture slideshow in the web browser itself without requiring Microsoft PowerPoint application.

This slideshow feature of GMail will be useful since you no longer have to download the full PPT attachment in order to view that 10th slide of the presentation.

This feature will help us in the following situations:

1. If you have to view a presentation on some computer that has no copy of PowerPoint, gmail yourself the powerpoint file and watch the slides inside the web browser.

2. GMail converts every slide of your Powerpoint presentation to a Flash (swf) file – if you manually advance the entire slideshow using the arrows, all the slides will become available as Flash files in your browser’s temp folder.

Just a quick way of transforming Powerpoint slides into SWF documents without using any desktop conversion software.

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