A while back, Google introduced a viewer in Gmail for PDFs, and that has now been improved upon to support TIFF and PowerPoint documents. This means you can view PDFs, PPTs, and TIFFs in Gmail right from your browser without having to save them or have any additional software.
Marc Miller on the Gmail notes that Gmail has had a "view as slideshow" option for PowerPoint files for a while, but the conversion technology is now integrated into this viewer.
There are more features with this viewer than with the old "view as slideshow" version, including zooming in and out, selecting text to copy/paste, and "printing" the presentation to a PDF document. You also don't have to have a Flash plugin to run it like in the past.
"I don't know about you, but the TIFF files I receive are almost always multiple-page faxes -- and the default TIFF viewer on my computer only shows me the first page," says Miller. "It's quite frustrating."
This viewer is powered by Google Docs and shows every page and provides the "print" option to prepare a ready-to-print PDF file. You can also upload documents right to Google Docs for further editing.
For heavy Excel users, Google's apps don't allow me to replace enough instances of need. Word, PPT are 'looks nice' applications (IMO) and Excel is a 'must work' application.
When I can put a small working excel sheet in an email, then I'll jump up and down!
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yes, I agree with you, Gmail Gets Better Viewer for PowerPoint and TIFF Files, and I migrating from other mail provider to gmail :)