I was looking for a way to convert my PowerPoint presentation to Flash, and I came across this:

http://www.openoffice.org/index.html

Not only do you get something similar to PowerPoint (Impress), you get 5 other applications (Draw, Math, Calc, Writer and Base).... FREE to do graphics, spreadsheats, word processing, math equations for presentations, and database data manipulation.

While the .ppt-to-flash conversion was less-than stellar, there's also the option to convert it to .pdf format, which was a step better.

Just visit the site, download the Suite, check it out, and if you already have MS Office, you can probably do without it. But if you don't, it's free and definitely worth taking part in.

I might check into it.