For what it may be worth to you and your situation, I'm aware of two pieces of specialty software for use with projecting in church settings: EasyWorship and MediaShout.
I have more experience with EasyWorship (like up to 2 or 3 Sundays a month from 2005 or 2006 until July 2008) so I know that it has a built-in ability to read at least older Power Point files. But I'm pretty sure that MediaShout can do so also. I would not be surprised to learn that the current versions can handle the 2007 version Power Point files. (I think Open Office may also be able to open the newer MS Office files, and then save them back to the older formats, but I'm not positive)
Partially due to more experience with it, and partially due to the way it handles song lyrics makes me prefer EasyWorship. But MediaShout seems to be more commonly used, at least in San Diego county churches.
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Date: 2011-11-18 04:10 pm (UTC)I have more experience with EasyWorship (like up to 2 or 3 Sundays a month from 2005 or 2006 until July 2008) so I know that it has a built-in ability to read at least older Power Point files. But I'm pretty sure that MediaShout can do so also. I would not be surprised to learn that the current versions can handle the 2007 version Power Point files. (I think Open Office may also be able to open the newer MS Office files, and then save them back to the older formats, but I'm not positive)
Partially due to more experience with it, and partially due to the way it handles song lyrics makes me prefer EasyWorship. But MediaShout seems to be more commonly used, at least in San Diego county churches.