Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

This update installs the latest assistance content for the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Help file and the Office PowerPoint 2007 Developer Help file.

• This download replaces the Help (.HxS) files on your computer for Office PowerPoint 2007. The download contains the latest revisions and additions to content in those Help files.
  
  By default, powerpointhelp.msp automatically replaces the current POWERPNT.DEV.HXS and POWERPNT.HXS file in the \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\1033 directory on the drive where you installed the 2007 Office System. If you installed the 2007 Office System in a different directory, you can locate the files in the \1033 directory, a subdirectory of the \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
office2007-kb957247-fullfile-x86-en-us.exe SHA1: cc784dc39f737ccee0d3be9cc6199d92890c57b8	12.67 MB

• • These downloads work with the following Office programs:
    
    • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

• To install this download:
  
  1. Download the powerpointhelp-en-us.exe file by clicking the Download button at the bottom of this page.
  2. In the dialog box that appears, click Save, and then specify a location on your hard disk for the download file.
     You should download this file if you have access to your original product CD-ROM. You might need to provide the original Office installation source during installation if you previously updated your product.
  3. Quit any Office 2007 programs that you are running.
  4. In Windows Explorer, double-click the office2007-kb957247-fullfile-x86-en-us.exe file that you saved to your hard disk. Double-click the extracted MSP file and then follow the instructions on the screen to install the files.
     For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB963669, Description of Updates for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Help: April 28, 2009