PPT97: How to Hide Slide Show Annotation, Hidden Slide Buttons

ID: Q189960

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article describes how to turn off on-screen annotation and remove the Annotation and Hidden Slide buttons that appear during a slide show.

MORE INFORMATION

To turn off on-screen annotation and remove the Annotation and Hidden Slide buttons that appear during a slide show, follow these steps:

1. Begin running the slide show.

2. Immediately after the first slide appears, press CTL+L or click the

   right mouse button once to bring up the slide show options menu,
   click Pointer Options, and click Hide Always.

This disables on-screen annotation for the slide show.

To turn off the annotation icon in PowerPoint Viewer, when using the viewer in a stand-alone installation, (that is, PowerPoint Viewer has been installed, but not PowerPoint itself), you must create a Powerpnt.ini file, and enter the following lines:

   [Microsoft PowerPoint]
   SlideShowToolBar=0

This disables the annotation icon during a presentation run from PowerPoint Viewer.

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

Last Reviewed: July 23, 1998