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# PPT: How to Hide Slide Show Annotation and Hidden Slide Buttons

Article ID: 119576

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0a
- Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0c

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## SUMMARY

To turn off on-screen annotation and remove the annotation and hidden slide buttons that appear during a slide show, do the following:

### PowerPoint 7.0

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.

### PowerPoint 4.x

1. Open Powerpnt.ini in a text editor such as Notepad. Powerpnt.ini is located in your Windows folder (directory).
2. Find the line in the [Microsoft PowerPoint] section of Powerpnt.ini that reads

   SlideShowToolBar=1

   and change it to:

   `SlideShowToolBar=0`

3. Save Powerpnt.ini.
4. Restart PowerPoint. (The changes will go into effect after you restart PowerPoint.)

NOTE: This not only disables the buttons, it also makes it impossible to do on-screen annotations or display hidden slides.

## MORE INFORMATION

To turn off the annotation icon in the 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 the Viewer. This information can be found in the PowerPoint Readme help file Ppreadme.hlp in the topic Powerpnt.ini Options.

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