PPT: Branching Requires PowerPoint or the 32-Bit Viewer
  
PSS ID Number: Q114325
Article last modified on 01-05-1999
 
windows:4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0,97
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0
 - Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c
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SUMMARY
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Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows provides the ability, during an
on-screen slide show, to branch to PowerPoint presentation object-
linking-and-embedding (OLE) objects that have been inserted into your
presentation. Because these are OLE objects, they can be activated
only by an OLE server, and the only servers for the objects are
Microsoft PowerPoint and the 32-bit PowerPoint Viewer.
 
This means that if you are using the 16-bit PowerPoint Viewer to
display a presentation that contains PowerPoint presentation objects,
you cannot branch to those presentations unless PowerPoint for Windows
is also installed on your system.
 
Versions of the 16-bit PowerPoint Viewer ship with PowerPoint 4.0,
PowerPoint 7.0, and Office 95. There is also a copy of PowerPoint
Viewer on the Office 97 compact disc, although the viewer is not
installed as part of Office 97 setup. Versions of the 32-bit PowerPoint
Viewer ship with Office 97 and PowerPoint 97 and they are also available
for download from the following Microsoft World Wide Web sites:
 
   http://www.microsoft.com
   ftp://ftp.microsoft.com
 
For information about obtaining PowerPoint Viewer 97, please see the
following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
 
   ARTICLE-ID: Q170801
   TITLE     : PPT97: How to Obtain PowerPoint Viewer 97
 
NOTE: PowerPoint Viewer 97 is not the same viewer that ships with Microsoft
PowerPoint 97 for Windows and Microsoft Office 97 for Windows.
 
Additional query words: 4.00 4.00a 4.00c 7.00 97 8.00 ppt95
winppt macppt hang hangs
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Keywords          : kbole kbdta kbviewer
Version           : windows:4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0,97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbinfo
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