PPT97: Bypassing Startup Dialog Boxes in PowerPoint

ID: Q189958

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

When you start PowerPoint, two dialog boxes appear before a blank presentation is opened for you to work in. These dialog boxes are New Presentation and AutoLayout. If you always prefer to begin with the same basic layout and want to bypass the two initial dialog boxes, you can force PowerPoint to load the Default.ppt presentation automatically.

NOTE: If you do this, make Default.ppt read-only so that you don't accidentally overwrite it.

MORE INFORMATION

To have PowerPoint open a blank presentation automatically, follow these steps:

1. Open a blank presentation in PowerPoint and save the presentation as

   Blank.pot in the same folder that you find Powerpnt.exe. (Blank.pot
   is found in the Templates folder initially.)

2. On the Windows Start menu, point to Programs and then click Windows

   Explorer.

3. Right-click the Blank.pot icon, and drag it to the desktop.

4. When you release the mouse button, a shortcut menu appears. Click Create

   Shortcut here.

5. Click this icon when you want to start PowerPoint and have the

   Blank.pot as the default presentation being the first thing you see.

Additional query words: 8.00 power point powerpt ppt97 winppt

Keywords          : kbusage
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: July 23, 1998