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Distribute your presentation with the PowerPoint viewer
You can make your presentation available to viewers
even if they are not PowerPoint users by including
the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 program with your
presentation. The PowerPoint Viewer 2007 is
available free from the Microsoft Download Center.
For example, if you create a presentation about your
products and want to distribute that presentation to
your customers, you may be concerned about what
to do if they do not have PowerPoint 2007. To ensure
that they can view your presentation, even if it is
password-protected, you can send them the PowerPoint
Viewer 2007 along with your presentation. Recipients
of your presentation then run the PowerPoint Viewer
2007, open your presentation, and it plays.
You can download the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 to
your computer using the Microsoft Download Center.
You can then post the file on a shared network for
others to access. For users not on your network, you
cannot send the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 program via
e-mail because it is too large. Either send them the
Microsoft download link or publish the presentation to
a PDF or XPS file
1 In your Web browser, go to
www.microsoft.com/downloads.
2 In the Search text box, type
PowerPoint Viewer 2007.
3 Click Go.
The Microsoft Download Center
displays the search results.
4 Click the PowerPoint Viewer
2007 link.
The PowerPoint Viewer
2007 download page
appears.
5 Click Download.
6 Click Save.
* Your user profile’s
Downloads folder is
automatically selected.
7 Click Save.
8 When the download is
complete, click Open
Folder.
* The Download folder appears and you see
the PowerPointViewer file.
Important!
PowerPoint Viewer 2007 is designed for playing back
presentations that have been created with PowerPoint
97 or later. Users of PowerPoint Viewer 2007 can view
presentations, but they cannot edit them.
Caution!
Unlike previous versions of PowerPoint Viewer, the
latest version is quite large — nearly 26MB. Do not
distribute this file to users who have a slow Internet
connection or a limit on the size of e-mail attachments.
Caution!
You cannot view presentations that use Information
Rights Management or embedded macros, programs,
or linked objects in PowerPoint Viewer 2007. Otherwise,
even multimedia effects, transitions, and more work
in PowerPoint Viewer 2007.