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Hello Gabriel,
PowerPoint does not have the built in ability to save presentations as
video files (with the exception of PowerPoint 97 using an obsolete add-in
from the Windows Media Technologies team for converting a presentation with
narrations to an *.asf file).
If the ability save presentations as movies, directly from within
PowerPoint, is important to you (or anyone else reading this message), OR
if there are specific features of PowerPoint slide show that you would like
to see (which would mitigate the need to save presentations as video
files), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.
IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)
In the meantime you, a couple of free Microsoft downloads for capturing
(recording) a slide show to a video file are:
1) Microsoft Windows Media 9 encoder
and if you are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003...
2) Microsoft Producer 2003 for PowerPoint (use it's screen capture
capability during a PowerPoint slide show).
Both of these create *.WMV files which are the same as *.ASF files (just a
different file extension).
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
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