PowerPointViewer

[Larry]

For years, I used Office 2003 PowerPointViewer. I noticed on Microsoft
download site that an Office 2007 PowerPointViewer was available. I removed
my 2003 PPV and downloaded 2007 PPV. Now when I try to open a .pps, I get a
series of windows identifying files that PPV can't find. The wording of each
window is the same except for the filename, e.g. PowerPointViewer cannot
find the file "Documents", then ...."and", then ...."Local", then
......"Temporary", then ...."Internet", then ...."filename.pps". I tried a
repair in CP Add-Remove, but nothing changed. Any idea how I can fix this?
Thanks.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

For years, I used Office 2003 PowerPointViewer. I noticed on Microsoft
download site that an Office 2007 PowerPointViewer was available. I
removed my 2003 PPV and downloaded 2007 PPV. Now when I try to open a
.pps, I get a series of windows identifying files that PPV can't find. The
wording of each window is the same except for the filename, e.g.
PowerPointViewer cannot find the file "Documents", then ...."and", then
...."Local", then ....."Temporary", then ...."Internet", then
...."filename.pps". I tried a repair in CP Add-Remove, but nothing
changed. Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks.

I would ask the experts in a PowerPoint or MS Office newsgroup.

 

[Big Al]

I would ask the experts in a PowerPoint or MS Office newsgroup.

Make sure the launch is "%1" not ppv.exe %1
You are looking at the properties of the file extension type 'pps'

 

[Big Al]

I would ask the experts in a PowerPoint or MS Office newsgroup.

Per that last message.
I suspect if it was an older version it might have installed thinking
long filenames did not include spaces. Its a gamble, but heck its cheap!

 

[Larry]

Big Al, thanks. I enclosed %1 with double quotes, and the .pps's open just
fine. Thanks. Out of curiosity, what do the double quotes do (or mean)?

 

[Big Al]

Big Al, thanks. I enclosed %1 with double quotes, and the .pps's open just
fine. Thanks. Out of curiosity, what do the double quotes do (or mean)?

When windows started allowing users to put spaces in the name things got
fun.
When you type a command like Del Myfile.txt it works great. And
remember I say 'type' meaning any way to get windows to run / execute
the del command.
Now the fun, as windows uses the space as a delimiter of commands.
Meaning that del a.txt b.txt c.txt would mean to delete 3
files. It uses the space to delimit the file names.
Thus putting spaces in the command screws up the program and it don't
understand where the end and start of things is. Or interprets them
wrong. SO putting it in quotes means you want the entire file name to
be whatever is in the variable %1. And %1 for you non techies is like
you did in algebra X=5 X is a variable. %1 is the place holder for
the filename supplied by the OS. ppv.exe "%1" will now handle
ppv.exe C:\documents and settings\fred\etc etc\x.pps properly.

Sorry, long winded tonight.

 

[Larry]

Don't be sorry, I appreciate the info. Thanks for your help.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

For years, I used Office 2003 PowerPointViewer. I noticed on
Microsoft download site that an Office 2007 PowerPointViewer was
available. I removed my 2003 PPV and downloaded 2007 PPV. Now when
I try to open a .pps, I get a series of windows identifying files
that PPV can't find. The wording of each window is the same except
for the filename, e.g. PowerPointViewer cannot find the file
"Documents", then ...."and", then ...."Local", then
....."Temporary", then ...."Internet", then ...."filename.pps". I
tried a repair in CP Add-Remove, but nothing changed. Any idea how
I can fix this? Thanks.

Truthfully... It sort of looks like it is trying to view things from inside
your Temporary Internet Files folder and perhaps that is corrupted. Trying
to open these from a web page, perchance?

Empty that and reset the size to something between 64 and 128MB.

- Open ONE copy of Internet Explorer.
- Select TOOLS -> Internet Options.
- Under the General tab in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, do the
following:
- Click on "Delete Cookies" (click OK)
- Click on "Settings" and change the "Amount of disk space to use:" to
something between 64MB and 128MB.
- Click OK.
- Click on "Delete Files" and select to "Delete all offline contents"
(the checkbox) and click OK. (If you had a LOT, this could take 2-10
minutes or more.)
- Once it is done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, re-open Internet
Explorer.

Uninstall the PowerPoint 2007 viewer.
Reboot.
Install the PowerPoint 2007 Viewer.
Reboot.
Try your PowerPoint files again.

 

[Sgt]

This site helped me correct a couple issues,
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm