Opening a PPS file

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Guest

Hi there,

normally when you receive a attachment in Outlook Express and you
double-click on it, it gets opened with the right application or... it will
ask you for the application.

I am having Windows XP Home Edition and never have been able to open
correctly a Powerpoint File from Outlook Express. When I double-click on it,
it try to open the file, it tells me after a 30 seconds or so, that it can't
open the file since it is not a .PPT file.

Now if I save it to my C:-Drive, open Powerpoint and retrieve it then, it
works file.
Now I just noticed that the difference is the extention of the file.
Received file = .PPS file and the Help section of Powerpoint talks about .PPT
file.

If I am correct, both are powerpoint files...

Any advice in this matter is welcome!

Best regards,
Ellen
 
G

Guest

Hi Bill,

thanks for your reply.

I have a problem with the soution, since if I open Windows Explorer and go
to View, there is no OPTIONS... so I searched a little further and found
anyways what was described in the document.

I only had to conclude that everything just was set-up correctly/same way as
described in the document... so...

Ellen
 
G

Guest

Hi Sonia,

thanks also for your reply, but I am not able to follow the instructions for
some reason. This is what I did:

Start/run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\POWERPNT.EXE /regserver

and when I hit Ok, I got an error message telling me it could not find
C:\program SO I selected the path, by using the browsing option and seems
the " " were missing in the document with the solution.

Anyway, this solution did not solve my issue. since I still can not open
the PPS/PPT file from outlook Express..

Thanks,
Ellen
 
B

Bill Foley

Depending on the version of Windows, the "Options" might be under the
"Tools" menu (actually called "Folder Options"). Click the "File Types"
Tab, scroll down and see if you have "PPS - Microsoft PowerPoint SlideShow"
listed. If not, you will need to add this file association. If you do,
then you might need to "Edit" it.

The reason the fix you posted on Sonia's suggestion might not have worked is
the version of PowerPoint you are using. The info posted was based on
PowerPoint XP (2002). The path to your PowerPoint executable file might be
different.

Which version of PowerPoint do you have?
 
G

Guest

Hi Bill,

I have following version:
Microsoft Powerpoint 2002 SP3, Dutch language

Thanks to the exercise given by Sonia, Powerpoint sure open's much faster.
~Big Smile~ So I was wondering if I could do the same for Microsoft Word??

Anyway I have rebooted since prior postings and followed the checks pointing
out in your posting again. For .PPS file there was no OPEN section, so I
added it.
For PPT files there was.

Once I checked the pointed mentioned in the article, I emailed to myself 2
files, 1 with PPT extension and one with PPS extension. And After
double-clicking on then in Outlook Express, the file got displayed.
Yessssssssssssssssss!

Thanks soo much to both of you!

Appreciate your help a lot!

Ellen
 
G

Guest

Hi Sonia,

me again. Please see my reply to Bill. Problem is solved as far as I can
tell!

Thanks so much for your help and patience!
Ellen
 
S

Sonia

I'm so glad.

poespas said:
Hi Sonia,

me again. Please see my reply to Bill. Problem is solved as far as I can
tell!

Thanks so much for your help and patience!
Ellen
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Ellen

Cool...

So Bill/Sonia, can I do the same for Microsoft Words with:

Start/run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WORD.EXE /regserver


It might speed up the opening of Word as well, like it did with powerpoint?
Or should I ask this question on the Word NG?

Thanks for your patience!
Ellen
 
S

Sonia

Well, I know that won't work because the Word executable is Winword.exe. But,
do you want to do this because you can't open DOC email attachments?
 
E

Ellen

Thanks Bill!

Best regards,
Ellen

Bill Foley said:
This will really only work if you are getting errors saying it "can't open
the file name specified...". Here is a link to that specific problem since
the command you type is different:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm

Here is one to check out if it opens slowly, etc.:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/


based retrieve
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S

Steve Rindsberg

They are both PowerPoint files. The PPS extension tells PowerPoint to open
the file in Show Mode. It sounds like your file association with PPS files
is lost. Check out this link for information:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00268.htm
Click to expand...

Hmm. That's an old orphan page. No wonder it's confusing.

Deleted it. Heh heh.

Changing a File Association
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00355.htm



--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================
 
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Ellen

I do not understand it, but I am having the same problem again....

Kind of frustating!! I am very curious why this happening???

Ellen
 
S

Sonia

What have you installed *since* it worked? My guess is that something is
hijacking your settings. If you're running Windows XP you can restore the
system to a point in time when it last worked. See Windows > Help and under
Pick a Task you'll find the option to "undo changes to your system". Otherwise
you'll need to follow the steps you used before to correct the problem.
 
E

Ellen

Hi Sonia,

I have installed a Photo Edit program yesterday... and I have taken the
same steps described, but... with no results...

Maybe it worked the other day since I sent a file which was on my PC, but I
tried this today as well, but with no result...
For now I leave it as it is, it does not really bother me, but it is just
not right.

I will go over the steps again, when I have a bit more time....

Thanks for your reaction!

Ellen
 

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