Can't open .ppt attachments from email

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I am unable to open any powerpoint attachments that have been emailed to me, even if I send them to myself.. this is the error that I get: PowerPoint can't open the type of file represented by blahblahblah.pp
when I go to help it says: Microsoft Office PowerPoint has encountered errors and cannot open this file. Try opening another copy of the file. For example, if the file was sent to you in an e-mail message, have the person who sent the message send it again, and then try to open the file again. If you opened the file from a floppy disk, try to open another copy of the file on a new disk
I know the files work, I can open them on other computers after they've been emailed but I can't open them on mine.. even when they are files that I've created and sent to myself
Any suggestions
is it a setting in Outlook that is causing the problem? I can open every other type of file that has been sent except ppt

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Unprotected PowerPoint files are easily corrupted when sent via e-mail. Try
using a zip program prior to mailing the presentation.

You will not get much compression from the zip because PowerPoint already
does a pretty good job of this, but you may find the presentations more
stable, once unzipped, on the receiver's end.

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Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
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I am unable to open any powerpoint attachments that have been emailed to

me, even if I send them to myself.. this is the error that I get:
PowerPoint can't open the type of file represented by blahblahblah.ppt

when I go to help it says: Microsoft Office PowerPoint has encountered

errors and cannot open this file. Try opening another copy of the file. For
example, if the file was sent to you in an e-mail message, have the person
who sent the message send it again, and then try to open the file again. If
you opened the file from a floppy disk, try to open another copy of the file
on a new disk.

I know the files work, I can open them on other computers after they've

been emailed but I can't open them on mine.. even when they are files that
I've created and sent to myself.

Any suggestions?
is it a setting in Outlook that is causing the problem? I can open every

other type of file that has been sent except ppt