PPT97: How to Obtain the PowerPoint Viewer for 16-Bit Systems

ID: Q180056

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SUMMARY

Microsoft has made available a PowerPoint Viewer for 16-bit Operating Systems (Windows 3.1). You can use the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer to display PowerPoint slide shows under Windows 3.1 if you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint installed on your computer. PowerPoint Viewer is available as a self-extracting archive in the Microsoft Software Library.

To install PowerPoint Viewer for 16-bit Operating Systems, download the following file from the Microsoft Software Library and then double-click the Ppview16.exe file to start the Setup program: 

 ~ ppview16.exe (size: 1866382 bytes) 
                Release Date: February 2, 1998
For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

MORE INFORMATION

PowerPoint Viewer for 16-bit Operating Systems includes import converters for the following presentation file formats:

NOTE: PowerPoint Viewer for 16-bit Operating Systems does not read native PowerPoint 97 and 7.0 files. Instead, it converts PowerPoint 97 and 7.0 presentations to the PowerPoint 4.0 format and then displays the slide show. Because the files are converted to PowerPoint 4.0 format, some features that are available in PowerPoint 97 and 7.0 but not in PowerPoint 4.0 may be lost.

For best results, you should save the presentation in PowerPoint 4.0 format from within PowerPoint 97 or 7.0. To do this, click Save As on the File menu, and select PowerPoint 4.0 in the Save as type box.

The Ppview16.exe is also available for download from the following Microsoft Web site: 

   http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/ppview16.htm
Microsoft encourages users to copy the PowerPoint Viewer file freely and distribute it to friends and co-workers along with presentations they have created in the PowerPoint format.

REFERENCES

Windows 95 and Windows NT users should use the PowerPoint 97 32-bit viewer. This Viewer is also available for download. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170801
   TITLE     : PPT97: How to Obtain PowerPoint Viewer 97
Additional query words: ptview viewer ppt8 ppt8.0 8.00 viewer8 16-bit 16bit win31 win3 
Keywords          : kbfile kbdta kbviewer
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: November 25, 1998