Thank you Brian. Your explanation is spot on! Tamir :-) "Brian Barker" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[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 > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4765 (20100112) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > >
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