PowerPoint Viewer

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer is a program used to run presentations on computers that do not have PowerPoint installed. Office PowerPoint Viewer is added by default to the same disk or network location that contains one or more presentations packaged by using the Package for CD feature.
PowerPoint Viewer is installed by default with a Microsoft Office 2003 installation for use with the Package for CD feature. The PowerPoint Viewer file is also available for download from the Microsoft Office Online Web site.
Presentations password-protected for opening or modifying can be opened by PowerPoint Viewer. The Package for CD feature allows packaging any password-protected file or setting a new password for all packaged presentations. PowerPoint Viewer prompts for a password if the file is open password-protected.
PowerPoint Viewer supports opening presentations created using PowerPoint 97 and later. In addition, it supports all file content except OLE objects and scripting. PowerPoint Viewer is currently only available for computers running on Microsoft Windows.


Versions for Microsoft Windows include:
1990 PowerPoint 2.0 for Windows 3.0
1992 PowerPoint 3.0 for Windows 3.1
1993 PowerPoint 4.0 (Office 4.x)
1995 PowerPoint for Windows 95 (version 7.0) — (Office 95)
1997 PowerPoint 97 (version 8.0) — (Office 97)
1999 PowerPoint 2000 (version 9.0) — (Office 2000)
2001 PowerPoint 2002 (version 10) — (Office XP)
2003 Office PowerPoint 2003 (version 11) — (Office 2003)
2007 Office PowerPoint 2007 (version 12) — (Office 2007)
2010 PowerPoint 2010 (version 14) — (Office 2010)
Note: There is no PowerPoint version 5.0 or 6.0, because the Windows 95 version was launched with Word 7.0. All Office 95 products have OLE 2 capacity — moving data automatically from various programs — and PowerPoint 7.0 shows that it was contemporary with Word 7.0.


1987 PowerPoint 1.0 for Mac OS classic
1988 PowerPoint 2.0 for Mac OS classic
1992 PowerPoint 3.0 for Mac OS classic
1994 PowerPoint 4.0 for Mac OS classic
1998 PowerPoint 98 (8.0) for Mac OS classic (Office 1998 for Mac)
2000 PowerPoint 2001 (9.0) for Mac OS classic (Office 2001 for Mac)
2002 PowerPoint v. X (10.0) for Mac OS X (Office:Mac v. X)
2004 PowerPoint 2004 (11.0) for Mac OS X Office:Mac 2004

2008 PowerPoint 2008 (12.0) for Mac OS X Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
2010 PowerPoint 2011 (14.0) for Mac OS X Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac
Note: There is no PowerPoint 5.0, 6.0 or 7.0 for Mac. There is no version 5.0 or 6.0 because the Windows 95 version was launched with Word 7. All of the Office 95 products have OLE 2 capacity — moving data automatically from various programs — and PowerPoint 7 shows that it was contemporary with Word 7. There was no version 7.0 made for Mac to coincide with either version 7.0 for Windows or PowerPoint 97.