I have made a slide show and emailed it as an attachment to a few people... the problem is that people who do not have power point on their computer cannot open the attachment or view the slide show... is there any way to fix this problem?

Go to
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/category.aspx
CategoryID=CD010225551033&CTT=4&Origin=CD010224911033

This viewer is specifically for those who do not have
Power Point on their computers.

Regards

Murray


>-----Original Message-----
>I have made a slide show and emailed it as an attachment
to a few people... the problem is that people who do not
have power point on their computer cannot open the
attachment or view the slide show... is there any way to
fix this problem?
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>

[CRITICAL UPDATE - If you are using Office 2003, you should install this
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

For the native (full fidelity) PowerPoint slide show format (*.ppt, *.pps)
the recipient will still have to have some kind of application which knows
how to open/view the slide show file (PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer).
If the recipients don't have PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer the
Viewer can be downloaded from the internet.

However, everybody (?) has a web browser on their computer, so an
alternative is to distribute your presentations as single file web pages
(MHTML. This is a feature of both PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003.
Now you have a single file that can be sent which, when the recipient opens
from e-mail or Windows, will display an HTML version of the PowerPoint
slide show in the default browser for that system. Of course there are
limitations and differences between PowerPoint HTML presentation slide
shows and native *.ppt/*.pps presentation slide shows viewed using
PowerPoint. If, however, the recipient opens the MHTML file using
PowerPoint (2002 or 2003), the show will display in full native fidelity.
So, with this workaround you get the benefits of single-file distribution,
but you don't get the "automatically start in slide show mode" experience
and there is loss of fidelity if viewed in a web browser (only you can
decide, for your presentations, whether the benefits offset the
disadvantages).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide a way of distributing a presentation (with all it's supporting
content) as a single file which, can be viewed in it's full fidelity, with
an option to start as slide show, and without permanently
installing/copying any software on the destination computer (whew!!!),
don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft
at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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