PPT7: Limitations of the PowerPoint Viewer for Windows 95 (138838)

SUMMARY

When you use the PowerPoint Viewer that comes with Office for Windows 95 or PowerPoint for Windows 95 to show a PowerPoint for Windows 95 presentation, the slides may look different than if you use PowerPoint to show the same slide show.

Only the features that are supported by PowerPoint 4.0 are available when you use the Viewer.

MORE INFORMATION

The following list describes the limitations of Viewer:

Builds are limited to one level of bulleted text in the body text object. Any builds produced using the Animation settings are ignored. The objects that the Animation settings were applied to are visible on the screen all the time.
Sound effects applied to an object's builds or transitions are ignored.
Semi-transparent fills are changed to solid colors.
Textured fills are changed to the default fill color of the current color scheme.
Features such as Meeting Minder, Slide Navigator, Slide Meter, and Slide Conferencing are not available.
Interactive settings (creating hot spots with associated actions that play when the hot spot is clicked) are ignored.

The PowerPoint Viewer that ships with the Windows 95 version of Office and PowerPoint is essentially the same as the 16-bit version of Viewer that shipped with PowerPoint 4.0c. It will run on Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Windows NT. When you show a presentation with Viewer, Viewer translates the presentation to PowerPoint 4.0 format. Therefore, only the features that are also supported by PowerPoint 4.0 are retained.

NOTE: These changes to the presentation are not saved; so, if you open the presentation in PowerPoint for Windows 95, you'll see that the new features are retained.