Overview of Microsoft Offline Presentations

Microsoft helps IT Professionals learn new ways to respond to business demands by providing valuable information in a multimedia format. This page is intended to facilitate your use of Microsoft Offline Presentations.

Using Microsoft Offline Presentations

System requirements

The offline presentations are optimized for Internet Explorer. Click here for installation instructions.
Internet Explorer

Presentations are viewed in Windows Media Player click here for install information.
Windows Media Player


Using Microsoft Offline Presentations

How the Offline Presentations work

provides a list of presentations you can sort by all available column headers.

  • View -- Sort by Length
  • Title -- Sort by Title
  • Date -- Sort by Date

To select a presentation, click on the word play in the View column of the table. The presentation opens in a new window.

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Controlling a Presentation

You can take control during the presentation.

  • Buttons in the left panel allow you, in this order, to start the presentation, pause it, return to the beginning, mute the audio and reopen this help file.
  • The right side of the presentation displays a list of supplementary materials, such as a downloadable transcript or powerpoint.
  • Below the viewing area is a navigation list of slide titles. You may advance forward or backward through the presentation by clicking on the titles. The number of slides and the time remaining in the presentation is displayed at the top of the list.

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System Requirements

Audio

uses Microsoft Media Player for audio. It does not support the use of the RealAudio player.

When you open a presentation, Microsoft Windows Media Player should automatically load if it is not already installed on your machine. If you are not using a recent version of Microsoft Internet Explorer or running Windows 98 SE or later, you may need to install Microsoft Windows Media Player yourself. We recommend that you install and use the Windows Media Player 9 Series player 

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Browser

The offline presentations are optimized for Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, which is available on Client Utilities CD or at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie.

    Note: The offline presentations have limited functionality for Netscape 4.5 or later.

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Media Player Requirements

  • Media Player 9 Series for Microsoft Windows® 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows XP Home Edition, or Windows XP Professional :
    A 233 megahertz (MHz) processor, such as an Intel Pentium II or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processor, 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended), 28.8 Kbps modem (56 Kbps recommended),  16-bit sound card and 256-video color card (24-bit true color recommended),
  • Media Player 6.4 for Windows 98
    Pentium or AMD Athlon 266 MHz processor, 64 MB RAM, 16-bit sound card, 24-bit true color video card, 56 Kbps modem,
  • Media Player 6.4 for 95 and Windows NT 4
    Pentium 90 MHz processor (120 MHz recommended), 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended), 28.8 Kbps modem, 16-color display card (256 recommended).

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Codecs:

If you can hear the audio are not recieving video you will need to install the appropriate decompressor.

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Feedback

We welcome your comments. If you are having difficulty viewing a presentation, you may contact us at Contact Us. You can find this link in the footer of the offline presentations index page.

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