Ending a .pps by quitting PowerPoint

[Guest]

You were so much help with my last question, how about this one!
I want to put a button in my PowerPoint show to let the user quit viewing. I
used the "End" button, but that takes me into the file in PowerPoint. Hitting
the Esc key does the same thing. Is there a way to quit PowerPoint entirely
with one button in my .pps so the viewer doesn't get into my PowerPoint file?

Thanks!!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You were so much help with my last question, how about this one!
I want to put a button in my PowerPoint show to let the user quit viewing. I
used the "End" button, but that takes me into the file in PowerPoint. Hitting
the Esc key does the same thing. Is there a way to quit PowerPoint entirely
with one button in my .pps so the viewer doesn't get into my PowerPoint file?

How are you starting the show? Normally, doubleclicking a PPS goes right into
the show, then quits directly on clicking an End button or hitting Esc. User
never sees PPT itself.

If you start PPT and then use File, Open to open your PPT or PPS file, it'll
just return you to PPT.

 

[Darrell S]

Sounds like you may have previously right clicked a .pps file and chosen
Open With. Then you must have set up .pps files to be opened with
PowerPoint rather than the PPT Viewer. The default is for .pps files to
open with the Viewer but you must have changed that. Using Explorer try
going to a .pps file, right click, choose Open With, browse to find the
Viewer, put a checkmark before "always use this program for this type file?.
Now you should be back to the default setting for .pps files to open
directly with the PPT Viewer.