Help with .pps

[Guest]

Windows 98SE, PP 200

Everything working fine until my computer crashed. Had hard drive reformated. Got PP program re-installe
yesterday. Got ready to SAVE AS a slide show, and the usual option for .pps, or for that matter none of the
options I previously had are available. Options now are: Presentation, Web Page, Web Archive, PP 95, PP 97-2002 & 95
Presentation, Presentation for Review, Design Template, PP Show, PP Add-in, Gif graphis Interchange Format
etc.

It will SAVE AS a .pps, but it has a Windows logo, not the usual square logo, and when I click on it in Window
Explorer to open it wants to know what program I wish to us, i.e. Notepad

What in the world can be the problem, and how can it be corrected

Many, many thanks for any help
Kathryn
wants to know what I want to use. Does not go to the P

 

[Glen Millar]

Kathryn,

1. The save options to pps are still there but named differently. For
example, PP Show is really a *.pps.

2. However, for the icon issue and it opening in Notepad, this is mucked up
in the way the extensions are handled by Windows. Information is here:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00355.htm

Please get back if you need more help.

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
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Windows 98SE, PP 2002

Everything working fine until my computer crashed. Had hard drive

reformated. Got PP program re-installed

yesterday. Got ready to SAVE AS a slide show, and the usual option for

..pps, or for that matter none of the

options I previously had are available. Options now are: Presentation,

Web Page, Web Archive, PP 95, PP 97-2002 & 95

Presentation, Presentation for Review, Design Template, PP Show, PP

Add-in, Gif graphis Interchange Format,

etc.

It will SAVE AS a .pps, but it has a Windows logo, not the usual square

logo, and when I click on it in Windows

 

[Guest]

Glenn,

Thank you so much. I needed reassurance that I had not gone completely daffy when I read the options for
Save As! MS shouldn't do that to an old lady. I've printed out the instructions from the url you gave me. Will give it a try and see if I can get it straightened out.

Kathryn