Import - Old Powerpoint File Fomats

I have Powerpoint presentations dating back to Office 4.2 in the late 80's. Assuming that, like most software manufactureres, Microsoft would allow importing of old file formats ..thus allowing a "save as" in the current format".... I discarded Office 98 and 4.2. Does anyone know if Keynote will import these old Powerpoint formats?
As you might expect, numerous email exchanges with Microsoft Technical support have only yeiled a "you can't get there from here" response...no real help.
If I can impoprt these old presenations I will gladly convert to Keynote without ever looking back

LSDMD,
welcome to Apple Discussions.
Check if you've got a 30-days-trial version of
Keynote. If not, maybe you could download it here.
At least I was able to open an old PPT from March
1998 without problems in Keynote -- except that some
exotic fonts were missing.
If this information
is useful to you, please mark it as "helpful" or
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this message. Thank you.
PowerBook G4 17", 1GB Mac OS X
(10.4.7) iMac G5 20"; iPod 3G, iPod Shuffle,
iSight
Unfortunately that link and the resulting download wasn't a free-trial ...so I coundn't test it. I would be thrilled to buy Keynote if I could simply establish for myself (by testing it with those old Powerpoints) that it would indeed open them. Do you have any other ideas where I might find a download of a trial version.
Thanks so much

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