Microsoft KB Archive/926808

= Several features that were in earlier versions of PowerPoint are no longer available or have changed in PowerPoint 2007 =

Article ID: 926808

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

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INTRODUCTION
Several features that were in earlier versions of PowerPoint are no longer available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The PowerPoint 2007 help topic &quot;Features that are not available in PowerPoint 2007&quot; discusses some of these features. However, other features have also changed in PowerPoint 2007. This article lists those features.



MORE INFORMATION
PowerPoint 2007 uses the following slide layouts:
 * Title Slide
 * Title and Content
 * Section Header
 * Two Content
 * Comparison
 * Title Only
 * Blank
 * Content with Caption
 * Picture with Caption
 * Title and Vertical Text
 * Vertical Title and Text

Note The default slide layout is now Title Slide.

The following features are no longer available in PowerPoint 2007:
 * The Microsoft Script Editor
 * The use of speaker notes during a slide show
 * The Custom Animation dialog box
 * The AutoLayout feature
 * The Prompt for File Properties check box in the PowerPoint Options dialog box
 * The Presentation Advisor and other style checker features

You cannot do the following in PowerPoint 2007:
 * Save a presentation in the PowerPoint 95 file format.
 * Use the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 to view presentations on computers that are running versions of Windows that are earlier than Microsoft Windows 2000.
 * Ungroup OLE objects that are inserted into a slide.
 * Use the Recolor command to recolor charts.
 * Use binary tags when you save a presentation in the PowerPoint XML file format, PowerPoint 2007 Presentation (*.pptx).
 * Access Animation effects that are applied to charts and diagrams through the PowerPoint 2007 object model.
 * Convert an OLE object from one type to another compatible type.
 * Convert an embedded PowerPoint slide into an embedded PowerPoint presentation, or convert an embedded presentation into an embedded slide.
 * Use the Shapes collection in the PowerPoint 2007 object model to work with shapes across multiple slides. You are limited to only those shapes on the selected slide.
 * Open files in PowerPoint 95 or in earlier versions of PowerPoint.

Additionally, the following features have changed in PowerPoint 2007:
 * When you reapply a slide layout, some formatting and style changes are not removed from placeholders on the slide.
 * When you use a gradient fill to format the background of a slide, and then you set the Type to Shade to Title, the gradient fill remains rectangular. This occurs if you change the shape of the title placeholder to a non-rectangular shape, such as the star or the hexagon.
 * PowerPoint 2007 no longer round trips user-added HTML tags in slide headers and footers.
 * Charts that were cropped by using the Crop tool in earlier versions of PowerPoint will have the cropping removed and reset to show the full chart object.
 * PowerPoint 2007 no longer uses the default Presentation (*.ppt) file format when you use the PowerPoint 2007 object model to programmatically save a presentation. You must specify the file type. Otherwise, PowerPoint will use the Save as File type that was set in the PowerPoint Options dialog box.

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