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Article ID: 166331 - Last Review: November 9, 2000 - Revision: 1.0
PPT97: Pack and Go Setup Runs PowerPoint, Not the Viewer
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SYMPTOMS
When Pack and Go Setup is finished unpacking a presentation, it asks
you if you want to run the slide show. If you click Yes, PowerPoint 97
starts instead of the PowerPoint viewer, and runs the slide show.
This only occurs if PowerPoint 97 is installed on your computer. If it
is not installed, the PowerPoint viewer (Ppview32.exe) starts and
displays the slide show.
This can be confusing. The Pack and Go Wizard saves a PowerPoint 97
presentation as a "PowerPoint 95 & 97 presentation," a special format
that both PowerPoint 7.0 and PowerPoint 97 can read. Because
PowerPoint 97 supports macros and additional animation effects which
PowerPoint 7.0 and the PowerPoint Viewer do not support, a
presentation may not look and behave the same in the PowerPoint 97
as it does in the PowerPoint viewer or PowerPoint 7.0.
CAUSE
Pack and Go Setup instructs Windows simply to show the presentation
(.ppt) file as a slide show. It does not tell Windows which program to
use to show the presentation. If PowerPoint 97 is installed, it is the
registered 'owner' of files with a .ppt extension. Therefore, it opens
the file and runs the slide show.
The 32-bit viewer that ships with Office 97 and PowerPoint 97 supports
only the PowerPoint 7.0 (and earlier versions) file format. It can
open the unpacked presentation, but it only displays the features
which are supported by PowerPoint 7.0.
RESOLUTION
If you pack a presentation on your computer and then unpack it to see
what it will look like, be sure to run the slide show at least two
times (once by starting the PowerPoint viewer first).
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
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