Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

MS Office .pps files are standard PowerPoint files that, when renamed
from .ppt to .pps, open directly in presentation mode (F5) instead of
edit mode.

OpenOffice Impress should behave like MS PowerPoint, opening it directly
in presentation mode, but this is not the case.

It would be nice to have this properly fixed as it's an important
feature when you want to use OOo on conference rooms, where the speaker
arrives with its .pps file: if it starts in presentation mode there are
no problem. If, instead, starts in edit mode it confuses the user (which
most of the time never used OOo before).

As a temporary workaround I suggest to use the ImpressRunner extension
from http://oooconv.free.fr/impressRunner/ .

I am using openoffice 2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1 from Ubuntu 8.10.

Thanks

** Affects: openoffice
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #56919
   http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56919

** Also affects: openoffice via
   http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56919
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: openoffice.org
  
  MS Office .pps files are standard PowerPoint files that, when renamed
  from .ppt to .pps, open directly in presentation mode (F5) instead of
  edit mode.
  
  OpenOffice Impress should behave like MS PowerPoint, opening it directly
  in presentation mode, but this is not the case.
  
+ It would be nice to have this properly fixed as it's an important
+ feature when you want to use OOo on conference rooms, where the speaker
+ arrives with its .pps file: if it starts in presentation mode there are
+ no problem. If, instead, starts in edit mode it confuses the user (which
+ most of the time never used OOo before).
+ 
+ As a temporary workaround I suggest to use the ImpressRunner extension
+ from http://oooconv.free.fr/impressRunner/ .
+ 
  I am using openoffice 2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1 from Ubuntu 8.10.
+ 
+ Thanks

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MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050
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