PPT97: Day of Week in Date Field Changes When Saved as 4.0 File
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
- Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition
SYMPTOMS
When you open a PowerPoint file, all date fields that are set to update
automatically, will appear with the correct month, day, and year but the
day of the week will be incorrect. For example, if you are using this format
Day of week, Month day, year
and the date is this
Thursday, January 1, 1998
the day of the week in the field will be incremented by one day, resulting
in this:
Friday, January 1, 1998
CAUSE
This problem occurs if you originally created the file in either
PowerPoint 97 for Windows or PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition, inserted the date and time as a field, and then saved the file in PowerPoint 4.0 format.
WORKAROUND
If you save your PowerPoint presentation in PowerPoint 4.0 format, do not
select the Update Automatically option in the Date And Time dialog box. When you clear this option, the date and time will be inserted as normal text. To insert the field as normal text, follow these steps:
1. On the Insert menu, click Date And Time.
2. Click to clear the Update Automatically check box.
3. Click OK.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
When you save a PowerPoint 97 for Windows or a PowerPoint 98 Macintosh
Edition file in PowerPoint 4.0 format, all header and footer items,
including the date fields appear as if they were applied to each
individual slide in the presentation. These items are converted to text boxes. Therefore, if you want to edit them you must edit each slide. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q169094
TITLE : PPT97: Limitations of Converting to PowerPoint 4.0 Format
Additional query words: powerpoint98 powerpoint97 ppt98 ppt97 8.0 ppt8
mac_ppt mac_ppt8 mac_ppt98 macppt98 powerpnt powerpnt8 updated updates incorrect wrong invalid real right incorrect
Keywords : kbinterop kbconversion kbbuglist
Version : MACINTOSH:98; WINDOWS:97
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Hardware : MAC x86
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbnofix
