2010/1/12 Brian Barker <[email protected]> > At 12:21 12/01/2010 +0200, Tamir Noname wrote: > >> I got this attachment and cannot open it with simpress. I get a strange >> message as if it is password protected but it is not the case. Is there a >> compatibility problem? >> > > In fact, this document file is password protected. You will appreciate > that, as a .pps file, this document is intended to display as a slide show > in Microsoft Powerpoint instead of opening as if for further editing. And > yes: if you open it in Powerpoint or in the Powerpoint Viewer then it will > run as a slide show without any requirement to provide the password. But if > you try to open it in Powerpoint as if for editing - perhaps by opening it > from within Powerpoint or by renaming it as a .ppt file - then Powerpoint > will give you the choice of providing the password, if you wish to edit the > document, or of opening it in read-only mode. > > Since OpenOffice Impress does not (as far as I'm aware) provide a > display-only mode - what Powerpoint calls a slide show - it is not > surprising that it will not open this document file at all without the > password. > > It appears that you are using Windows. If so, you could download and > install the free Powerpoint Viewer from the Microsoft web site. This would > open and display this file as its author intended. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker >
Brian, would first saving the file to a folder and then opening it from that folder, rather than attempting to run it directly on Impress from an email attachment, allow it to run as a slideshow ? That sort of workaround when trying to open attachments with OOo often functions for me on my Linux box.... Henri
