Didn't you say,

Then how do you know what it can or cannot do compared to something as obscure as Beamer?
I am NOT a ms-windows fan and have been using Linux for almost 20 years, but it is a "MS-Windows world" and if you want to be able to view, as I've said before, a slide presentation created in Powerpoint, as it was meant to be seen, you need to use Powerpoint. It is as simply as that when you remember that nearly 90% of the computers around the world use MS-Windows.
The business software for Linux has come a long way, but there are times when there isn't a Linux alternative or the Linux alternative is not quite up to the job and it is necessary to fire up a copy of ms-windows in a virtual machine or boot to a windows partition.
Some companies I deal with will NOT accept documents in any format other than .doc. They will not accept .odt or.pdf. If I want to keep them as happy, paying clients, it is necessary to create ms-word documents in the same version of ms-word they are using.
Scanning is another story. I've spent so many hours trying to tweak sane/xsane to produce a "quality" document to the point I'm sure those hours would add up to days if not weeks. To get a "quality" scanned document that looks like the original, in a file of reasonable size, and in a reasonable amount of time, it is necessary to use ms-windows in VirtualBox.
While it appears Apple and Linux are gaining on microsoft it will still be a windows world for many, many years to come.

1. Just because you don't know about Beamer doesn't make it obscure.
2. You misread my comment. I didn't claim to know anything about MS Office, what I said was the following:
You will note that there is no reference to PP in this statement. Since it is possible that there are important features that I am not able to dream up I then asked you a question, to wit,
It is telling that you don't appear to be able to answer the question. In any event you haven't answered the question.
3. Repeating something that doesn't make any sense doesn't make it any clearer. How is that different from saying, a slide presentation created with Beamer, as it was meant to be seen, you need to use Beamer. In fact this last statement is false (and this is a good thing). You don't need to use Beamer to view a Beamer-made presentation. You can view it with any pdf viewer. If you cannot do this with Powerpoint then it's Powerpoint that really can't compete.

The remainder of your post is not really relevant to the OP's query.

becauseI live in the real world and have to interact with Windows and Office for Mac. If I create a presentation at work on my Mac or my PC and email it to myself for final touches on my Linux box either open source office messes just about everything up, the same applies if I try to edit in keynote. However if I'm at home and put together a presentation on my Linux box PowerPoint will keep the formatting and fonts.

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Nothing you have said is relevant to the OP's post.

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I cannot find anything in the OP's first post the mentions wanting something that can be run on a Windows box. The OP says this:
I take this to mean that the OP is looking for a Linux solution that satisfies the above requirements.
@Germany_chris - You state,
Bravo for you! I'm sure your "real world" is fantastic but you are not the OP and you and that's the person I was addressing. As a side-note, I guess the fact that Beamer produces .pdf files among other things is irrelevant in your "real world" where "real" people don't use .pdf files. Oh, and by the by, I was introduced to Beamer by a Mac User. You see it runs on all the platforms of your "real world". I don't believe Powerpoint has this capability but please correct me if I'm wrong.
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