PPT2000: Types of Presentations PowerPoint Can Open and Save

ID: Q198339

The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 For Windows

SUMMARY

This article describes the file formats that Microsoft PowerPoint can open, save, import, and export.


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Opening and Saving

PowerPoint can open presentations created by the following versions of PowerPoint:
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 for Windows


  • Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows


  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a, 7.0b


  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0e, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c


  • Microsoft PowerPoint for the Macintosh, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 4.0, 98


PowerPoint can also open presentations created by these third party products:
  • Harvard Graphics for MS-DOS, version 2.3 and 3.0 (.ch3; .sh3)


  • Lotus Freelance for Windows, versions 1.0 - 2.1 (.pre)


NOTE: The Harvard Graphics 2.3 and 3.0 for MS-DOS converters are available through the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit.

PowerPoint can save presentations in the following formats:
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 presentations (.ppt)*


  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 shows (.pps)*


  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 templates (.pot)*


  • Microsoft PowerPoint 97, 2000 & 95 presentations (.ppt)**


  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, version 4.0 (.ppt)


* Microsoft PowerPoint 97 can open PowerPoint 2000 files natively, however features exclusive to PowerPoint 2000 are either approximated or lost.

** This is a special format that PowerPoint for version 7.0, PowerPoint 97, and PowerPoint 2000 can read natively.

Importing and Exporting

PowerPoint can also import presentations based on a variety of document formats. These formats include:
  • Text files (.txt)


  • Rich Text Format files (.rtf)


  • WordPerfect 5.x documents (.doc)***


  • WordPerfect 6.x documents (.doc; .wpd)***


  • Works 4.0 for Windows 95 documents (.wps)***


  • Works 3.0 for Windows documents (.wps)***


  • Word documents (.doc)***


  • Word 4.0 for the Macintosh documents (.mcw)


*** To import these formats, you must install the appropriate Text converter(s), which are not installed automatically.
PowerPoint can export slides in the following formats:
  • Windows Metafiles (.wmf).


  • JPEG File Interchange Format(.jpg)


  • GIF Graphics Interchange Format(.gif)


  • Device Independant Bitmaps (.bmp)


  • Tag Image File format (.tif; .tiff)


  • Portable Network Graphics format (.png)


  • Web Page (.htm; .html)


  • PowerPoint can export presentation outlines in the Rich Text Format (.rtf).


The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

Additional query words: ppt9 9.00 importing export converting foreign file formats

Keywords : kbdta kbconvert
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo


Last Reviewed: June 28, 1999
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