Office: No PowerPoint Viewer Disk with Office on CDLast reviewed: March 27, 1997Article ID: Q119105 |
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SUMMARYMicrosoft Office for Windows, version 4.2-CD, 4.3-CD, or 4.3c-CD does not come with a separate PowerPoint 4.0 Viewer disk. If you want to distribute the PowerPoint Viewer (16-bit), you must create your own Viewer disk, or obtain the PowerPoint 4.0 Viewer disk from Microsoft.
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If you are using version 4.3c-CDAlthough Microsoft Office 4.3c-CD contains the PowerPoint Viewer files, they are expanded and contained in a .CAB file. The expanded files take up too much disk space to be extracted to a floppy disk for distribution. For more information about how to obtain the PowerPoint 4.0 Viewer disk, see the "Obtaining The PowerPoint 4.0 Viewer Disk" section at the end of this article. You cannot create a PowerPoint viewer disk for this version of Microsoft Office.
If you are using version 4.2-CD or 4.3-CDMicrosoft Office 4.2 and 4.3 on CD-ROM contain all the files necessary to create a PowerPoint Viewer disk. The files are stored in the directories listed in the followign table.
Version of Office Directory to copy ---------------------------------------------------- 4.3-CD <drive>:\SETUP.ADM\DISK31 4.2-CD <drive>:\SETUP.ADM\DISK25NOTE: <drive> is the drive where the Office CD is located.
Creating a Viewer DiskTo create a Viewer disk, copy the files from your Office CD to a floppy disk using the following steps:
Installing the ViewerTo install the PowerPoint Viewer on another computer using this PowerPoint Viewer disk, do the following:
Obtaining the PowerPoint 4.0 Viewer DiskThe following file(s) are available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:
~ PPTVW16.EXE (size: 1341635 bytes)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 ServicesFor additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q117554 TITLE : PowerPoint Viewer and Associated Files on One DiskPPTVW16.EXE includes its own Setup program (VSETUP.EXE). It can be freely distributed with your own PowerPoint presentation files. NOTE: PPTVW16.EXE will not play Media Clip objects unless you already have Video for Windows files installed.
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Additional query words: 4.00 4.00a 4.0x 4.20-CD 4.30-CD 4.30c-CD ppt
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