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Summary
Name	Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation
Version	95
Other names
Identifiers	MIME: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt PUID: fmt/125
Family
Classification	Presentation
Disclosure	None
Description	Powerpoint format is a presentation format developed by Microsoft. Powerpoint 95 format is the native format of Powerpoint 95. The format is proprietary and Microsoft does not make details of its structure public. The information here is derived primarily from OpenOffice.org's reverse-engineered documentation of the format and should not therefore be regarded as definitive. Powerpoint 95 is based on Microsoft’s generic OLE2 Compound Document Format. A Powerpoint presentation is stored as a ‘PowerPoint Document’ stream within a Compound Document Format file.
Orientation	Binary
Byte order	Little-endian (Intel)
Related file formats	Has priority over Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation (97-2003) Has priority over OLE2 Compound Document Format Is previous version of Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation (97-2003) Is subsequent version of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation (4.x) Is subtype of OLE2 Compound Document Format
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	Microsoft Corporation
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	02 Aug 2005
Source description	This format is identifiable via a container signature in DROID 6 and later.
Last updated	30 Sep 2020
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