Summary
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| Name |
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation |
| Version |
4.x |
| Other names |
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| Identifiers |
MIME:
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
Apple Uniform Type Identifier:
com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt
PUID:
x-fmt/88
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| Family |
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| Classification |
Presentation |
| Disclosure |
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| Description |
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation is a proprietary binary file format developed by Microsoft Corporation used to store presentation files created in the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software. This record describes version 4 of .ppt file format released in February 1994 for Windows, and included in the 4.2 version of Microsoft Office for Windows released in the same year. Versions up to version 4 of Microsoft PowerPoint use .ppt as extension however, they are not compatible with each other. Microsoft made backwards compatibility an optional add-on after Office 2003 and appears to have removed it altogether in Office 2010. Please follow the links attached to this entry for more information. |
| Orientation |
Text |
| Byte order |
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| 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 (95)
Is subsequent version of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation (3.x)
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| Technical Environment |
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| Released |
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| Supported until |
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| Format Risk |
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| Developed by |
 Microsoft Corporation
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| Supported by |
Microsoft Corporation
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| Source |
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
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| Source date |
02 Aug 2005 |
| Source description |
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| Last updated |
24 Aug 2022 |
| Note |
https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000511.shtml
http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/PPT
https://web.archive.org/web/20220329174106/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint |
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