PPT 2002, PPS Looses Effects

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Dear friends,

In XP wirh Ofc 2002, we saved to a PPS. It had many of the new, snazzy effects in the presentation.

We took that PPS to another XP PC but it had Ofc 2000 only. Never opening PowerPoint 2000, we executed the PPS. I was surprised, the special effects would not play.

Is there any way to save a 2002 presentation and have it play with 2002 effects in any computer???

Thank you everyone, you are always great,

ET
 
2002 effects, will not play in earlier versions. You can turn them off before
you make your presentation, that way you will not be using them by mistake, in
presentations you intend to show using earlier versions of PowerPoint.

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Dear friends,

In XP wirh Ofc 2002, we saved to a PPS. It had many of the new, snazzy effects
in the presentation.

We took that PPS to another XP PC but it had Ofc 2000 only. Never opening
PowerPoint 2000, we executed the PPS. I was surprised, the special effects
would not play.

Is there any way to save a 2002 presentation and have it play with 2002 effects
in any computer???

Thank you everyone, you are always great,

ET
 
You can play the presentation in the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and the
animations will play. PowerPoint 2000 and PowerPoint 97 do not support
features that were added in more recent versions of PowerPoint.

The Viewer can be downloaded and and installed from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&DisplayLang=en
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http://www.soniacoleman.com/

ET said:
Dear friends,

In XP wirh Ofc 2002, we saved to a PPS. It had many of the new, snazzy effects in the presentation.

We took that PPS to another XP PC but it had Ofc 2000 only. Never opening
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PowerPoint 2000, we executed the PPS. I was surprised, the special effects
would not play.
 
Hello ET,

It's a common misconception that a *.PPS is a standalone show (which
doesn't require PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer to display). This is
not true. When you opened the *.PPS on your PowerPoint 2000 system the
slide show was simply opened up in PowerPoint 2000 (which doesn't support
the advanced animation features of PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003.

As others have already indicated, the workaround is to use PowerPoint
Viewer 2003 to display the new animation features in a PowerPoint 2002 or
2003 presentation on systems which do not have PowerPoint 2002 or 2003.

However, if your intention was to create a single-file ditribution of your
presentation which didn't require PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer to be
shown, there is another option. Everybody (?) has a web browser on their
computer, so the workaround 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, when you double-click on
it, 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 or the
PowerPoint Viewer. Only you can decide, for your presentations, whether
these differences offset the convenience of the single-file MHTML
distributable slide show.

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 without
permanently installing/copying any software on the destination computer,
don't forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:

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

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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

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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