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.ppt

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation (Legacy)

PPT is the legacy binary format for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. While replaced by PPTX, many older presentation files and templates still use this format.

MIME type

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

Developer

Microsoft

Introduced

1987

Advantages

  • Compatible with older PowerPoint versions
  • Widely recognized
  • Still supported by modern software
  • Simple for basic presentations

Limitations

  • Larger files than PPTX
  • Binary format — harder to recover
  • Missing modern features
  • Being phased out

When to use PPT

Opening legacy presentations
Compatibility with older systems
Archived presentation files
Simple slideshows

Technical details

PPT uses the OLE2 binary compound file format. It stores slide data, media, and formatting in binary streams.

Convert PPT to other formats

12 conversion options available

PPT to PDFPPT to DOCXPPT to DOCPPT to TXTPPT to XLSXPPT to XLSPPT to CSVPPT to PPTXPPT to ODTPPT to RTFPPT to HTMLPPT to EPUB

Convert to PPT from other formats

12 formats can be converted to PPT

PDF to PPTDOCX to PPTDOC to PPTTXT to PPTXLSX to PPTXLS to PPTCSV to PPTPPTX to PPTODT to PPTRTF to PPTHTML to PPTEPUB to PPT

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Other document formats

.pdfPDF

Portable Document Format

.docxDOCX

Office Open XML Document

.docDOC

Microsoft Word Document (Legacy)

.txtTXT

Plain Text File

.xlsxXLSX

Office Open XML Spreadsheet

.xlsXLS

Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (Legacy)

.csvCSV

Comma-Separated Values

.pptxPPTX

Office Open XML Presentation

.odtODT

Open Document Text

.rtfRTF

Rich Text Format

.htmlHTML

HyperText Markup Language

.epubEPUB

Electronic Publication