PPT97: PowerPoint Saves Year in Three-Digit Format

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: This behavior occurs if all of the following are true:

• The system date is set to the year 2000 or greater.
  
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• 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).

The Pp7trans.dll file that PowerPoint uses to translate files to PowerPoint 4.0 format is not year 2000 compliant.

Method 1

To work around this behavior, use a date format that formats the year as four digits, such as "Saturday, January 1, 2000."

Method 2

To correct this problem, obtain Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.