playing powerpoint files

[Guest]

Is there any standard way to read Powerpoint files without having powerpoint? If not, I have a backed up Office 2K Pro Ed. on my hard drive, but no longer have the disk. I have SB now. Would copying the old Powerpnt.Exe to current hard drive work or would it simpy screw things up???

 

[Bill Foley]

You can download the free PowerPoint Viewer at:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00153.htm

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Is there any standard way to read Powerpoint files without having

powerpoint? If not, I have a backed up Office 2K Pro Ed. on my hard drive,
but no longer have the disk. I have SB now. Would copying the old
Powerpnt.Exe to current hard drive work or would it simpy screw things up???

 

[Guest]

thanks

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

You can view (not edit) PowerPoint presentations (slide show only) in
Windows by installing the PowerPoint Viewer. There are two versions:

PowerPoint Viewer 97 (use for viewing PowerPoint 97 and 2000
presentations), and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 (use for viewing PowerPoint 2002
and 2003 presentations).

Both viewers can be found on the Office Online web site by following the
links for updates or downloads:

http://office.microsoft.com

If it is important to you (or anyone else reading this message) that
additional options be provided for viewing presentations (when you do not
have PowerPoint), 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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