Hi James,
You are correct. One of the goals of the new PowerPoint Viewer 2003 was
that it could run without any kind of installation. As a consequence of
this requirement, we do not put any kind of CLSID in the registry.
If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that the
PowerPoint Viewer should have this kind of feature, don't forget to send
your feedback 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. Each submission should be
a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).
John Langhans
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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