PPT: Missing TextAutoNumberScheme structure providing the style of the number bullets

Question

Hi,

there are cases when the TextAutoNumberScheme structure is not provided in files created by MS PowerPoint 2003.  I'm looking for the style of the number bullets and can't find the information at any alternative location.  Could you please check my approach and provide any hints to locate the missing information.   Using [1] as reference.

2.9.27 TextAutoNumberScheme

Referenced by: TextPFException9

A structure that specifies the automatic numbering scheme for text paragraphs.  The scheme describes the style of the number bullets and specifies the numeric value of the first number assigned

2.9.26 TextPFException9

Referenced by: StyleTextProp9, TextDefaults9Atom, TextMasterStyle9Level

A structure that specifies additional paragraph-level formatting.

Looking for TextPFException9 in the following order:

1.  StyleTextProp9 

2. TextMasterStyle9Leve

3. TextDefaults9Atom

 

2.9.68  StyleTextProp9

location:
PP9ShapeBinaryTagExtension/StyleTextProp9Atom/StyleTextProp9Atom

status:

2.9.26 TextPFException9

fBulletHasAutoNumber = 1
TextAutoNumberScheme structure is not provided (bulletScheme = false )

2.9.21 PFMasks

bulletHasScheme = true
bulletScheme = false 

 

2.9.74 TextDefaults9Atom

location:
DocumentContainer
|- PP9DocBinaryTagExtension/TextDefaultsAtom

status: not provided

2.9.38 TextMasterStyle9Level

locations:

MainMasterContainer
|- PP9SlideBinaryTagExtension/TextMasterStyle9Atom

SlideContainer
|- PP9SlideBinaryTagExtension/TextMasterStyle9Atom
 
DocumentContainer
|- PP9DocBinaryTagExtension/TextMasterStyle9Atom

status: not provided

Same as in other similar cases after re-save of the file in MS PowerPoint 2007,  the TextAutoNumberScheme is provided. I chose the following option to save in MS PowerPoint 2007:

Powerpoint 97-2003 Presentation
Save a copy of the presentation that is fully compatible with
PowerPoint 97-2003.

status:

2.9.68  StyleTextProp9

fBulletHasAutoNumber = 1

2.9.21 PFMasks

bulletHasScheme = true
bulletScheme = true 

2.9.27 TextAutoNumberScheme

scheme = 3
startNum = 1

Test Files

http://neuron.tuke.sk/~uzak/koffice/powerpoint/mp03_list_numbering.ppt

http://neuron.tuke.sk/~uzak/koffice/powerpoint/mp07_list_numbering.ppt

 

[1]  [MS-PPT]: PowerPoint (.ppt) Binary File Format,  Release: Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Matus Uzak

Answer 1

Hi Matus, thanks for your post regarding the [MS-PPT] protocol specification. One of the Open Specification Documentation team will be in touch with you shortly.

Regards,
Bill Wesse - MSFT

Answer 2

Hi,

I already got an answer from Marijn Kruisselbrink, who discussed this issue at the Plugfest.

In case TextAutoNumberScheme is not provided, the default value has to be used.  I created a number of test documents and the default value seems to be ANM_ArabicPeriod (MS-PPT, subsection 2.13.28).  This is MS PowerPoint 2003 specific.

br,

Matus Uzak

Answer 3

Matus,

Thank you for providing the answer back to the community.

Dominic Salemno
Escalation Engineer
Open Specifications