PPS not recognized by PowerPoint 2002

[Liam]

I received an email attachment (negative virus scan) from
a friend, containing a pps extension. I can download and
play the file on my Windows 98/PowerPoint 2000-SR 1 at
work, but when I try to download it and open it at home on
my Windows XP/Office XP (PowerPoint 2002)computer, I get a
message that says that PowerPoint cannot open a pps file.
Why does this happen and how do I fix it?
I assume it has to do with the version of PowerPoint with
which the PowerPoint show was created, but I assumed that
Office XP would be back-compatible.
Any ideas?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

It is not the expected behavior, PowerPoint (as you are using it) is
backward compatible.

couple of questions...
Are you opening the file via PowerPoint | File | Open, or double click, from
a zip file or open attachment dialog after downloading?

If the first is true then this is truly strange.

If the second, then I would suspect your file associations have become
corrupted. See:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00355.htm

If the third, then save to disk (uncompressed), open PowerPoint | File |
Open | Dialog. PowerPoint does not do well from within zipped files.

If the fourth, then again, save to your hard drive and use the open dialog
box from within PowerPoint


Post back if one of these does not work.
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