HELP! All ppts now opening as read only then converting to adobe!

[Guest]

Hi,

All of a sudden, every time I open a ppt (even those I have created from
scratch), it will open, but there is a black slash through the slide. The
title then automatically changes to [READ ONLY], and adobe acrobat 8 opens,
and it converts to a pdf of the slides. I can't now click on or modify the
ppt slides.

I am running XP SP2
Office 2003/PPT 2003
Adobe Acrobat 8 (full, not pro)

This is a huge crisis - any help would be appreciated!

Kent

 

[Echo S]

How are you opening the files? If you're double-clicking in a window, then
it may just be that your file association for PPT got set to Acrobat. If
that's the case, then this FAQ should help you fix it:

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

 

[Guest]

Ok, well, it took some deep breathing, but I fixed it myself. I'll explain
the fix in case others run into it. Someone had sent me a ppt with a property
that it was set
to open with adobe acrobat reader. When I opened it, it appears that it
changed my settings to make all ppt files open with adode. I just
right-clicked on the offending ppt and selected properties, then changed
"open with" back to ppt. All is ok now. Weird function to change all ppts
though...

 

[Guest]

Thanks Echo S,

That was perfect, and better said! Thanks much for the fast reply!

k

How are you opening the files? If you're double-clicking in a window, then
it may just be that your file association for PPT got set to Acrobat. If
that's the case, then this FAQ should help you fix it:

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

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Hi,

All of a sudden, every time I open a ppt (even those I have created from
scratch), it will open, but there is a black slash through the slide. The
title then automatically changes to [READ ONLY], and adobe acrobat 8
opens,
and it converts to a pdf of the slides. I can't now click on or modify the
ppt slides.

I am running XP SP2
Office 2003/PPT 2003
Adobe Acrobat 8 (full, not pro)

This is a huge crisis - any help would be appreciated!

Kent

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ok, well, it took some deep breathing, but I fixed it myself. I'll explain
the fix in case others run into it. Someone had sent me a ppt with a property
that it was set
to open with adobe acrobat reader. When I opened it, it appears that it
changed my settings to make all ppt files open with adode. I just
right-clicked on the offending ppt and selected properties, then changed
"open with" back to ppt. All is ok now. Weird function to change all ppts
though...

Glad you found the fix, but truly, there's no such function.

Something else caused the file associations for PPT files to change; doing what
you did changed it back to what it should have been.

"File associations" are what tells Windows "When they doubleclick a file with
the file extension .XYZ, here's the program you should launch and use to open
the file." They apply to ALL files of that type.