PPT: Can't Open PowerPoint Files with Windows 95 Quick View

 Last reviewed: March 11, 1998
Article ID: Q138645
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, versions 7.0
  • Microsoft Windows 95 Operating Environment

SYMPTOMS

In Windows 95, if you click a PowerPoint 95 presentation with the right mouse button, then click Quick View on the popup menu, you receive the following error message: 

   There is no viewer capable of viewing Microsoft PowerPoint
   Presentation files.
If you click a PowerPoint 97 presentation with the right mouse button, then click Quick View on the popup menu, you see only a blank slide.

CAUSE

The Quick Viewer that ships with Windows 95 works only with PowerPoint 4.0 presentations. You can't use the Windows 95 Quick View feature with PowerPoint for Windows 95 or PowerPoint 97 presentations.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Windows 95 offers a feature called Quick View, which allows you to view files created in popular Windows-based programs without starting the program.

PowerPoint does support a context menu option to run a slide show, however. When you context click a PowerPoint presentation in Windows 95, you can choose Open, New, Print, Show, or Quick View.

The Show option launches your presentation directly to a slide Show. You can press escape at any time, and when you do so, the file is closed. This option takes longer than Quick View because it actually opens the file.

Additional query words: 7.00 ppt95 ppt7 w_powerpt pp95 pp7 ppt97
Keywords : kbenv kbinterop kbusage
Version : windows:7.0,97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprb

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Last reviewed: March 11, 1998
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