Microsoft KB Archive/62844

PowerPoint 2.00 Help: Opening a Presentation PSS ID Number: Q62844 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The information below is taken from the PowerPoint version 2.00 Help file for opening a presentation.

PowerPoint has four ways to open a presentation. All four use the File menu.


 * 1) If another presentation is active and you want to reuse its format, but not its slides, choose New, then click the button labeled Use Format of Active Presentation.
 * 2) To open a presentation with PowerPoint’s default format, choose New, then click on Use Default Format. If you’ve saved your own custom default choices and slides in a presentation named DEFAULT.PPT, a new presentation with those defaults will open.
 * 3) To reopen an existing presentation and maintain its current name, choose Open. On the dialog box that appears, double-click the name of the presentation.
 * 4) To open a new copy of an existing presentation and give it a new name, choose Open, then click Open an Untitled Copy.

For more information about this topic, refer to Pages 110-112 and 322-323 of your “Microsoft PowerPoint User’s Guide.”

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.