PPT97: New Features, Problems Fixed in PowerPoint 97 SR-1 (172004)

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New and Changed Features

1. The Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 Enterprise Update compact disc includes Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 97, a PowerPoint viewer which directly supports PowerPoint 97 features. PowerPoint Viewer 97 is not included in the Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 patch.
2. The Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 Enterprise Update compact disc includes a graphics import filter for FlashPix and Microsoft Picture-It files. This graphics import filter is not included with the Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 patch.
3. In PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1, you can choose to automatically convert Graph 97 objects to Graph 5.0 objects when you save a presentation in an earlier format. If you then open the presentation on a computer running PowerPoint 4.0 or 7.0, you can edit the graphs in that presentation using Graph 5.0. You can access this option from File Save As dialog, by changing the dropdown for Save As Type to one of the the following types:

   Powerpoint 95 with Graph 5.0 (*.ppt)
   Powerpoint 4 with Graph 5.0 (*.ppt)

4. The Pack and Go Wizard in PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1, can pack presentations as PowerPoint 97 presentations instead of PowerPoint 7.0 and 97 dual-format presentations. As a result, fewer disks are required to pack a presentation.
5. If the central processing unit (CPU) of your computer supports the MultiMedia Extensions (MMX) instruction set, PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1 can display inserted JPEG images more quickly.

Bugs Fixed in PowerPoint 97 SR-1

1. PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1 saves drawn arcs with arrowheads correctly when you save a presentation in PowerPoint 3.0 or 4.0 format.
   
   For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   166318 PPT97: Arrow Heads Flipped Saving in PowerPoint 3.0, 4.0 Format

2. In PowerPoint 97, you can accidentally delete all the speaker's notes from all the notes pages except the one you are editing. This problem was corrected in PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   163455 PPT97: Editing Text on One Notes Page Deletes Notes on Others

3. PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1 can successfully use the Pack and Go Wizard when run from a computer that is running Windows NT 4.0 with the NTFS file system. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   168329 PPT97: Pack and Go Creates 0 KB File on Windows NT With NTFS

4. There are some circumstances that can cause an imported graphic to appear as a red X in PowerPoint 97. PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1 eliminates a number of those circumstances. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   167886 PPT97: Graphics Displayed as Red X in Presentation

5. If you save a presentation in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) format, and then host that page on a server running the UNIX operating system, the Web page may appear incorrectly when opened in a Web browser. This problem was corrected in PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   163463 PPT97: Slides Displayed Incorrectly from UNIX-based Server

6. If you insert an Equation Editor object into a PowerPoint slide, and that equation contains horizontal braces, you may receive an error when you try to edit that equation. This problem was corrected in PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1.
7. PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1 registers its file types in Windows Explorer differently than PowerPoint 97. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   170793 PPT: Error Editing PowerPoint File Type in Windows Explorer

8. When you run a slide show that contains a hyperlink to another presentation, the slide show may stop after the linked presentation ends. This problem was corrected in PowerPoint 97 Service Release 1. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   167902 PPT97: Slide Show Unexpectedly Ends After Hyperlinking

Bugs fixed in Microsoft Word 97 SR-1 that Affect PowerPoint

1. When you copy (or insert) a table from Word 97 into a PowerPoint slide, Excel Worksheet, or WordPad document, some of the table borders may not appear on screen, although they do print. This problem was corrected in Word 97 Service Release 1. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   159608: PPT97: Microsoft Word Table Borders May Disappear