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I used to use Paint Shop Pro 5. I no longer use it. Now when I save an
illustration as a bitmap in Powerpoint (Microsoft Office XP Professional),
when I look at the file properties, it shows the file type as a "Paint Shop
Pro 5 Image". How can I get the illustration to save as a bitmap image?
 
PowerPoint does not have the option to save as a PSP image. What type of
image format are you selecting when you save from PowerPoint? The fact that
the file type indicates that it is a PSP image, only indicates that it will
use PSP to open the image. If you no longer are using PSP as you photo
editor, you need to change the file associations for images to whatever you
are using now.

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|I used to use Paint Shop Pro 5. I no longer use it. Now when I save an
| illustration as a bitmap in Powerpoint (Microsoft Office XP Professional),
| when I look at the file properties, it shows the file type as a "Paint
Shop
| Pro 5 Image". How can I get the illustration to save as a bitmap image?
 
Stripermanx said:
I used to use Paint Shop Pro 5. I no longer use it. Now when I save an
illustration as a bitmap in Powerpoint (Microsoft Office XP Professional),
when I look at the file properties, it shows the file type as a "Paint Shop
Pro 5 Image". How can I get the illustration to save as a bitmap image?
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It *IS* a bimap image. But Windows uses the file extension to determine what
program "owns" certain file types.

There's more about file associations and PowerPoint specifically here:

Changing a File Association, Repairing broken File Associations
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00355.htm

The part about setting file associations with Explorer should help you change
the association for .BMP files from PSP to whatever other app you'd prefer.

Quick course: Rightclick a BMP file in Windows Explorer, click "Open With",
click "Choose Program", pick the program you want from the list and put a check
next to "Always us this program ..." then click OK.
 
Michael,
I know that PowerPoint does not have the option to save as a PSP image.
That is what I get when I use the "Save As" option and choose to save the
file in bitmap format. Thank you for the information on file associations, I
understand about associations now. But how do I fix it?
 
Thanks, Steve. I went to http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00355.htm and
ran the detect and repair for PowerPoint. I followed the instructions. Then
I ran PowerPoint again and now PowerPoint won't even let me open the files I
created in PowerPoint and saved in bitmap format. What Gives?
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PowerPoint never would let you open BMP files (though it should let you add them to
existing presentations using Insert, Picture, From File.)

Again, try this:
 
Steve,
After I did the detect and repair for PowerPoint I went to Microsoft
Outlook. All my contacts and tasks and notes were wiped out! Can I restore
them?
 
If you have a program like Paint Shop Pro on your system, you can go into
the options, and under file associations assign Paint Shop Pro as the
program that opens these type of files. If you do not have a paint program
on your system, your not going to be able to open your image files, other
than by inserting them into programs like PowerPoint.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


| Michael,
| I know that PowerPoint does not have the option to save as a PSP image.
| That is what I get when I use the "Save As" option and choose to save the
| file in bitmap format. Thank you for the information on file
associations, I
| understand about associations now. But how do I fix it?
| --
| stripermanx
|
|
| "Michael Koerner" wrote:
|
| > PowerPoint does not have the option to save as a PSP image. What type of
| > image format are you selecting when you save from PowerPoint? The fact
that
| > the file type indicates that it is a PSP image, only indicates that it
will
| > use PSP to open the image. If you no longer are using PSP as you photo
| > editor, you need to change the file associations for images to whatever
you
| > are using now.
| >
| > --
| > <>Please post all follow-up questions/replies to the newsgroup<>
| > <><>Email unless specifically requested will not be opened<><>
| > <><><>Do Provide The Version Of PowerPoint You Are Using<><><>
| > <><><>Do Not Post Attachments In This Newsgroup<><><>
| > Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
| >
| >
| > | > |I used to use Paint Shop Pro 5. I no longer use it. Now when I save
an
| > | illustration as a bitmap in Powerpoint (Microsoft Office XP
Professional),
| > | when I look at the file properties, it shows the file type as a "Paint
| > Shop
| > | Pro 5 Image". How can I get the illustration to save as a bitmap
image?
| >
| >
| >
 
stripermanx said:
I used to use Paint Shop Pro 5. I no longer use it. Now when I save
an illustration as a bitmap in Powerpoint (Microsoft Office XP
Professional), when I look at the file properties, it shows the file
type as a "Paint Shop Pro 5 Image". How can I get the illustration
to save as a bitmap image?
Click to expand...

In Explorer click on Tools... Folder Options... View. Remove the checkmark
before "hide extensions for known file types". This should cause the .bmp
file to show its extension type and it will probably be .bmp. I believe it
is just saving the file as a ,bmp. When you highlight a .bmp file and
bring up its properties it probably shows PSP as the 'opens with" program
because you never changed the program Explorer would use to open the file.
To change that, highlight the file, hold down the Shift Key while right
clicking the file and choose Open With. Now assign whatever program you
want Explorer to use (maybe Paint) to open the file and put a check mark
before "always use this program to open this type file". It will remain a
..bmp file regardless of what program you tell Explorer to use to open it.
 
Stripermanx said:
Steve,
After I did the detect and repair for PowerPoint I went to Microsoft
Outlook. All my contacts and tasks and notes were wiped out! Can I restore
them?
Click to expand...

Not a clue, I'm afraid. Unless something else was on the borderline of going
wrong, I don't think Detect and Repair would've caused any problems with
Outlook though.

I'd check in one of the Outlook newsgroups to see if they know.
 
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