Corel Presentations EXPORT

When I came on board at my church a year ago I've been slowly upgrading things in all areas. Its all about the baby steps when you deal with volunteers let me tell you.

Anyhow to the point.
We use Corel Presentations 9 for displaying songs on our projection system.
I just opened up PowerPoint 2003 to discover it can't read SSW format Corel uses.
I can see that you in Corel Pres can save a file as PowerPoint 95.

The software is old and we are in the middle of a huge building expansion project.
I absolutely can't stand this software anymore and my team is frustrated because they can't do some of the things you can even with the newer PowerPoint versions.
Spending $400 on software will not be in the budget till after the summer.
I do want to then upgrade to one of the great worship presentation programs out there, but till then....
Does anyone have any idea of an easy way to convert Corel SSW files to PowerPoint or any of the major worship packages out there?

Matt Moyer
North Olmsted A/G

[[Admin] osborn4]

So, you can't just save them as PPT95 and then open them in PPT2003? That's what I'd try first.

If that didn't work, you should be able to pick up a more current version of Corel Office for not much, open them with that and save them in a format that PPT03 can open.

Sure I can open each one and resave it as a PPT95 file, I was simply hoping there was an easier way. If we only had a few songs it would be one thing but we have tons.

Basically I was wondering if any of the major packages out there could read corel files. I know many of them have a PowerPoint import ability, so I was curious if any of them could read Corel Presentations.

Perhaps I'll just have to come to grips with a lot of work to port this stuff to another application.

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Is it a song library you are trying to open? If so, you could get one of the major worship software packages and use CCLI's song select and redo all the slides in a fraction of the time it would take to do it by purchasing a new version of corel, saving them as ppt files and importing them to the worship software.