When you save your presentation in PowerPoint 4.0 format,
PowerPoint saves the year portion of the date incorrectly using a three-digit
format like this:
01/01/104
This behavior occurs if all of the following are true:
| • | The system date is set to the year 2000 or greater.
-and- |
| • | You inserted date fields in your presentation and chose to
have them update automatically.
-and- |
| • | The dates are formatted in any two-digit format (such as,
01/01/04). |
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The Pp7trans.dll file that PowerPoint uses to translate
files to PowerPoint 4.0 format is not year 2000 compliant.
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Method 1
To work around this behavior, use a date format that formats the
year as four digits, such as "Saturday, January 1, 2000."
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Method 2
To correct this problem, obtain Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Service
Release 2 (SR-2).
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the
Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
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