PPT: How to Hide Slide Show Annotation and Hidden Slide Buttons (119576)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95
  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 4.0
  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 4.0a
  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 4.0c
This article was previously published under Q119576

SUMMARY

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

  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

  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

  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

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

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.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/16/2005
Keywords:kbhowto KB119576
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