Format
Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation
- Version
- 97-2003
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt
- PUID: fmt/126
- Format type
- Presentation
- Disclosure
- None
- Description
- Powerpoint format is a presentation format developed by Microsoft. Powerpoint 97-2002 format is the native format of Powerpoint 97 onwards. The format is proprietary and Microsoft does not make details of its structure public. Currently PRONOM cannot differentiate Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation 97-2003 and Microsoft Powerpoint Show by signatures. This means Microsoft Powerpoint Show files with extensions of pps will likely identify as the Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation 97-2003 PUID. Further research may be able to address this.
- File extensions
-
ppt - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Has priority over
- Is subsequent version of
- Is subtype of
Internal signatures
Powerpoint 97-2003
- Note
- Compound Document Header + PowerPoint Document user stream
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
D0CF11E0A1B11AE1{20}FEFF- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Variable
- Offset
- None
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
50006F0077006500720050006F0069006E007400200044006F00630075006D0065006E007400- Endianness
- None
Container signatures
Type: OLE2
3000 - Microsoft Powerpoint 2000 OLE2
- File path
- PowerPoint Document