Format

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

Summary

Name

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

Version

3.x

Identifiers

• MIME: application/vnd.ms-PowerPoint
• Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt
• PUID: fmt/1748

Format type

Presentation

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 system. This record describes version 3 of .ppt file format released in May 1992 for Windows, and included in the 3.0 version of Microsoft Office for Windows released in August 1992. Versions up to version 4 [x-fmt/88] 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.

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

File extensions

ppt

Submitted by

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Developed by

Microsoft Corporation

Supported by

Microsoft Corporation

Relationships

Is previous version of

• Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation 4.x

Is subsequent version of

• Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation 2.x

Internal signatures

Changelog

• V108

  Release date

  5 September 2022

  • Added format

    Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation v3.x: Full entry added. Submitted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  • Added signature

    Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation v3.x: Signature researched and samples provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.