clicking link to .ppt files problem in IE

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One of my IE users, when clicking a link to a PowerPoint presentation (.ppt files), gets an interface that instructs her to add slides, instead of actually getting the file (or, rather, the option to Open or Save the linked file). I cannot duplicate the problem. The user has Office 2000 and uses FrontPage. There must be a setting that's causing this behavior. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
Hi,

I wonder more specifically what is happening? Are they using Front Page to
edit the files or create a website, or how si it related? Anyway, there is
information here that may help:

Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm


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rob lake said:
One of my IE users, when clicking a link to a PowerPoint presentation
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(.ppt files), gets an interface that instructs her to add slides, instead of
actually getting the file (or, rather, the option to Open or Save the linked
file). I cannot duplicate the problem. The user has Office 2000 and uses
FrontPage. There must be a setting that's causing this behavior. Anyone
have any ideas?
 
It sounds to me as if the link is going to the PPT EXE file, not to an actual PPT presentation.

Either that, or the PPT file is opening in PPT in editing mode. Maybe have her try renaming the PPT file to .PPS and link to that instead. The PPS file will open in Show Mode (full screen), so she shouldn't see the editing window.

The reason it may work differently on the different machines has to do with file associations.
 
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