The shortcut menu is different when you view a PowerPoint 2003 presentation in an Internet browser

If you save a PowerPoint 2003 presentation as a Web page, and then you view the slide show in an Internet browser, the following commands are missing from the shortcut menu:

• Last Viewed
• Go to Slide
• Custom Show
• Screen
• Pointer Options
• Pause
• Help

Additionally, there may be other differences in the PowerPoint 2003 slide show, including the following:

• The shortcut menu is available even though the Show menu on right mouse-click check box in the Options dialog box is not selected.
• The shortcut menu toolbar does not appear in the lower left corner, even though the Show popup toolbar check box is selected in the Options dialog box.
• The slide show ends with a black slide even though the End with black slide check box is not selected in the Options dialog box.

This behavior occurs because the Web page version of the PowerPoint 2003 slide show has to have different command options than the command options that are available in PowerPoint 2003 so that it can be viewed in different browser types and on computers that do not have Microsoft PowerPoint installed. The settings for slides on the View tab of the Options dialog box in PowerPoint 2003 apply to PowerPoint slide shows (these are files with the .ppt or .pps extensions).

The Web Page shortcut menu appears when you right-click anywhere on the screen during the slide show presentation in the Internet browser. This shortcut menu lists the following three commands:

• Next
• Previous
• End Show

The PowerPoint 2003 slide show shortcut menu appears when you right-click anywhere on the screen during the slide show presentation. The menu lists the following additional commands:

• Last Viewed
• Go to Slide
• Custom Show
• Screen
• Pointer Options
• Pause
• Help

All the extra commands that are available in the PowerPoint 2003 slide show use features that are only available when PowerPoint 2003 is installed. If you want to view all the options that are available when you view the PowerPoint 2003 slide show in a Web page, click Web Options on the General tab of the Options dialog box in the Web page.