Good afternoon,


On 25Feb2010, at 5:42 PM, Brian Barker wrote:

> At 00:51 25/02/2010 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
>> Impress SaveAs has the same description for both .ppt vs.pps.  Microsoft 
>> PowerPoint 97/2000/XP
> 
> That's good - since they are the same!  The file formats are identical, the 
> different extensions merely indicating what you want to happen when the file 
> is opened.  Documents with the .ppt extension open in Powerpoint as if for 
> further editing; those with the .pps extension display as a "slide show", 
> which is neater when you are delivering the presentation. The option to save 
> as .pps is not present in my version 3.1.1 of OpenOffice, so I'm guessing it 
> must be new in version 3.2; in any case, you can simply rename these files to 
> change the extension as needed.
> 
> I trust this helps.
> 
> Brian Barker
> 

Both formats were available for a while. I haven't used either for a while, but 
last time I did .pps opened normally in MSSlideShow  (V2003) whereas .ppt 
didn't.

Regards and Thanks



Keith Bainbridge
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