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Q119576: PPT: How to Hide Slide Show Annotation and Hidden Slide Buttons

Article: Q119576
Product(s): Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 15-APR-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0 
- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c 
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SUMMARY
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To turn off on-screen annotation and remove the annotation and hidden slide
buttons that appear during a slide show, do the following:

PowerPoint 7.0
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1. Begin running the slide show

2. Immediately after the first slide appears, press CTL+L or click the right
  mouse button once to bring up the slide show options menu, click Pointer
  Options, and click Hide Always

This disables on-screen annotation for the slide show.

PowerPoint 4.x
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1. Open Powerpnt.ini in a text editor such as Notepad. Powerpnt.ini is located
  in your Windows folder (directory).

2. Find the line in the [Microsoft PowerPoint] section of Powerpnt.ini that
  reads

  SlideShowToolBar=1

  and change it to:

  "SlideShowToolBar=0" (without the quotation marks)

3. Save Powerpnt.ini.

4. Restart PowerPoint. (The changes will go into effect after you restart
  PowerPoint.)

NOTE: This not only disables the buttons, it also makes it impossible to do
on-screen annotations or display hidden slides.

MORE INFORMATION
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To turn off the annotation icon in the PowerPoint Viewer, when using the viewer
in a stand-alone installation, (that is, PowerPoint Viewer has been installed,
but not PowerPoint itself), you must create a Powerpnt.ini file, and enter the
following lines:

  "[Microsoft PowerPoint]
  SlideShowToolBar=0" (without the quotation marks)

This disables the annotation icon during a presentation run from the Viewer.


This information can be found in the PowerPoint Readme help file Ppreadme.hlp in
the topic Powerpnt.ini Options.

Additional query words: 4.00 4.00a 4.00c 7.00 power point powerpt annotate pencil winppt ppt95

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbPowerPtSearch kbPowerPt700 kbZNotKeyword2 kbPowerPt700Search kbPowerPt400 kbPowerPt400c kbPowerPt400a
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0
Issue type        : kbhowto

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