New PowerPoint Viewer

re: New PowerPoint Viewer

Mike Niedringhaus — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:57:00 GMT

The statement that the viewer does not need to be installed is apparently wrong. It only works if it IS installed on a computer.

re: New PowerPoint Viewer

Wayne Kao — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:20:00 GMT

Are you doing this with the new PowerPoint Viewer 2003?

It does need some DLLs and the EXE, but these are these are part of the program and are burned to the CD or saved to your USB keychain thing. Nothing gets installed to the computer running the viewer. It's not listed in "Add/Remove Programs", it isn't on the Start menu, and nothing gets added to "Program Files". You don't ever have to run an installation program either.

Maybe it's doing something else I'm not aware of. Can you go into more detail about what you're doing?

re: New PowerPoint Viewer

Mike N — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:34:00 GMT

Well, I guess you HAVE to have Powerpoint 2003 and use its new Package for CD to create this non-installation version. I have 2002 and 2000 versions. If I want to use the 2003 viewer, I still have to install it. This is a major pain, because most computers around here are protected from installations from people other than IT guys. So, the 2003 viewer is useless unless you have permission to install on that computer.

re: New PowerPoint Viewer

Wayne Kao — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:08:00 GMT

I talked to Andre Chen, who is the program manager for the PowerPoint Viewer. Here's what he had to say:

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So you guys are both right. To run the Viewer does not require any installation (you just need the files in one folder). However, the problem that this person is having is "acquiring" the Viewer. We created a web download package that installs the Viewer on your machine (adds a shortcut, puts it in the Office dir), which he can't do because of his locked down system. The other alternative is to have 2003 because we've already installed the Viewer by default with PowerPoint.

The goal of "installation-free" for the Viewer was for authors to distribute the Viewer/presentations to their audience, who would not need to install anything to see the presentation.

-Andre
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So, Mike, the workaround for your specific problem is to download/install the viewer on a non-locked down machine. Then, once you have the EXE and DLLs, you can copy them to the locked down machine and run them, no installation necessary.

Let me know if that works out for you.

re: New PowerPoint Viewer

Mike Niedringhaus — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:13:00 GMT

Yeah, it's not as clean as with PP03, but it is definitely an option. Thanks for your efforts. I really appreciate that. I'm writing an article for our monthly online newsletter and I want to introduce this new tool, but not make it too complicated for them. I think I can do that now. Thanks again.

re: New PowerPoint Viewer

Jane :latorre — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:58:00 GMT

I tried using powerpoint viewer 97 but when i tried running a PPS with thai fonts, the statements were garbage. but when i tried running it with 2003, everything is ok. Except that I cannot automate it using VisualBasic (which I can do with ver 7 before, only that thai fonts seem not supported.) I hope you have a work-around plan on this issue. Thanks!

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