Microsoft KB Archive/293787

= Comments are not visible in earlier versions of PowerPoint =

PSS ID Number: 293787

Article Last Modified on 9/2/2004

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

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This article was previously published under Q293787



SYMPTOMS
If you add comments to a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, the comments are not visible when you open that presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint.



CAUSE
To store comments, PowerPoint uses a completely different method than earlier versions of PowerPoint. Earlier versions therefore ignore the PowerPoint comments, which is why they are not visible.



WORKAROUND
If you need to view or edit the comments added in PowerPoint, you must open the presentation in the version of PowerPoint that the comments were created in. You can still add comments by using the comment feature in earlier versions of PowerPoint, but these comments are only valid in the version of PowerPoint that creates them.

