New Viewer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint

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Richard Bretschneider \(MS\)

Hello, I'm the lead program manager for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.
Back in April I wrote to tell you about an exciting new PowerPoint Viewer we
were working on. Its my pleasure now to announce that we finished work a
short while ago, and that it is today available for download.

This new viewer has been engineered to support a number of new features from
our last few releases that were missing in the PowerPoint '97 Viewer.
Specifically, we've added support for the new animation effects,
simultaneous animations, and transitions. We've also added a number of
non-animation features, such as opening password protected documents. A new
twist here is that this viewer requires no installation, no setup of any
kind, and can run directly from write-protected media like CDs. This was
very important as the new viewer is a big part of the Package for CD feature
in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, which I hope you'll check out when it
becomes available in a few weeks. We're very happy with the results and
hope you will be as well.

The viewer has just been posted, and is not yet linked into the Microsoft
Office web pages, so you'll have to search the
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads section for "powerpoint 2003 viewer" to
find it. Links in the Microsoft Office web site will be showing up shortly.

Again, I want to acknowledge your contributions that helped us in defining
the features in this viewer. The feedback we get from MSWISH has been
essential in prioritizing and developing this application. The PowerPoint
MVPs are also to be thanked, as they do a great job of representing your
concerns and problems to us on a regular basis.

Thank you all.

Richard Bretschneider
Lead Program Manager
PowerPoint
 
Brilliant - at long last. I wonder if by providing the
viewer on a CD containing a Producer file that the
advanced animations will play alright on older W95
machines?
-----Original Message-----
Hello, I'm the lead program manager for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.
Back in April I wrote to tell you about an exciting new PowerPoint Viewer we
were working on. Its my pleasure now to announce that we finished work a
short while ago, and that it is today available for download.

This new viewer has been engineered to support a number of new features from
our last few releases that were missing in the PowerPoint '97 Viewer.
Specifically, we've added support for the new animation effects,
simultaneous animations, and transitions. We've also added a number of
non-animation features, such as opening password protected documents. A new
twist here is that this viewer requires no installation, no setup of any
kind, and can run directly from write-protected media like CDs. This was
very important as the new viewer is a big part of the Package for CD feature
in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, which I hope you'll check out when it
becomes available in a few weeks. We're very happy with the results and
hope you will be as well.

The viewer has just been posted, and is not yet linked into the Microsoft
Office web pages, so you'll have to search the
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads section
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for "powerpoint 2003 viewer" to
 
Richard,

WOW...what can I say. It's not everyday that a NEW PowerPoint Viewer is
released. In fact it's been quite a long time coming. This is 'awesome'
news.

A thousand thanks for listening to your 'users' and making it happen.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free sample templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
 
David, have downloaded it and read the documentation?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP team
 
Yes I downloaded it. And ran it. File Open does not have option for .lst as
does the old viewer?

Where are the docs? I can't even find help screens.
 
Here is the readme. Installed within C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\PowerPoint Viewer

Looks like NO list support to me, but it is not stated specifically one way
or another

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer Readme File
© 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

This document provides late-breaking information about the Microsoft Office
PowerPoint Viewer.

How to use this document
To view the Readme file on the screen, maximize the browser window. To print
the Readme file, click the Print button on the toolbar.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Contents

About the PowerPoint Viewer

System Requirements

Multilingual Issues

Working with the PowerPoint Viewer


About the PowerPoint Viewer

The Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer allows you to view full-featured
presentations created in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. The PowerPoint
Viewer supports viewing presentations created in PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint
2000, and PowerPoint 2002. The PowerPoint Viewer also supports opening
password-protected PowerPoint presentations.

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System Requirements


a.. PC with a 200 MHz or higher processor
b.. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later
c.. Supported operating systems: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition,
Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3, Windows XP, or
Windows Server 2003.
d.. Random access memory (RAM):
a.. For Windows 98 SE, Windows ME: 32 MB of RAM
b.. For Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3: 64 MB of RAM
c.. For Windows XP, Windows Server 2003: 128 MB of RAM
e.. 5 MB of available hard disk space
f.. Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher screen resolution

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Multilingual Issues

The PowerPoint Viewer does not support the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.

The PowerPoint Viewer does not support bidirectional language presentations
created in PowerPoint 97.

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Working with the PowerPoint Viewer

The PowerPoint Viewer does not correctly show diagram animations. Instead of
showing the animations, the diagram will appear completed.

The PowerPoint Viewer does not support opening Information Rights Management
(IRM) presentations.

The PowerPoint Viewer does not support running macros, programs, or opening
linked or embedded objects.

The PowerPoint Viewer does not support displaying these graphic formats when
linked in a presentation: .eps, .pct, .emz, .cdr, .cgm, .wpg, and .wmz.

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When you use the "Package to Cd" feature in PPT 2003 it creates a bat file
with the following contents.

@pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"



It also creates the playlist.txt file which contains something like:

Presentation1.ppt


No reason to not more files that I can see but I haven't tested it yet.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
What TAJ said!

--
WOW...what can I say. It's not everyday that a NEW PowerPoint Viewer is
released. In fact it's been quite a long time coming. This is 'awesome'
news.

A thousand thanks for listening to your 'users' and making it happen.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free sample templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

Viewer
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Thanks so much, Rick! It's been a long wait and well worth it.
--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Free Templates, Tutorials, PowerLink, PowerLink Plus,
and Autorun CD Project Creator Pro)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003
 
This is just phenomenal news! Thanks for listening to
us. HUGE improvement. Thank you a billion times over.
Things just got fun again!
-----Original Message-----
Hello, I'm the lead program manager for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.
Back in April I wrote to tell you about an exciting new PowerPoint Viewer we
were working on. Its my pleasure now to announce that we finished work a
short while ago, and that it is today available for download.

This new viewer has been engineered to support a number of new features from
our last few releases that were missing in the PowerPoint '97 Viewer.
Specifically, we've added support for the new animation effects,
simultaneous animations, and transitions. We've also added a number of
non-animation features, such as opening password protected documents. A new
twist here is that this viewer requires no installation, no setup of any
kind, and can run directly from write-protected media like CDs. This was
very important as the new viewer is a big part of the Package for CD feature
in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, which I hope you'll check out when it
becomes available in a few weeks. We're very happy with the results and
hope you will be as well.

The viewer has just been posted, and is not yet linked into the Microsoft
Office web pages, so you'll have to search the
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads section
Click to expand...
for "powerpoint 2003 viewer" to
 
Thanks, Richard, and also the rest of your team. Also thanks to the MVPs for
pointing me to MSWISH in the first place. (It really *does* work!)

-
John O
reply email is anti-spammed
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Brilliant - at long last. I wonder if by providing the
viewer on a CD containing a Producer file that the
advanced animations will play alright on older W95
machines?
Click to expand...

Doubtful - according to the d/l page, the new viewer only works back to
Win98.
 
(It really *does* work!)

Eventually ;-)

BTW, I'd love to know how many hits that download gets in the next 24 hours!
 
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