At 16:06 11/04/2008 -0700, Alex Dames wrote:
What open office software do I need to acquire ...
If you do not already have OpenOffice installed and are asking which part you need, the answer is all of it: you cannot download only parts of the product, and installing only some parts - though possible - is not recommended.
... in order to open an e-mail attachment marked pps. I guess this means powerpoint.
Yes: the .pps extension indicates a Powerpoint document file. It has the same contents as a .ppt document file, but it is marked as .pps so that it opens as a "slide show" in Powerpoint, so as to display directly instead of as if for further editing. You can handle this in various ways:
o Start OpenOffice and use File | Open... to browse to and open the file. It will open in OpenOffice Impress and you can use View | Slide Show (or the Slide Show button in the Presentation toolbar) to run it.
o Rename the file so as to change its extension to .ppt. Now double-click it. If you accepted OpenOffice's offer to take over the associations for Microsoft Office file types when you installed it, the document will open in Impress. (Again, run it as above.)
o Set up an association for .pps files with OpenOffice. (How you do that depends on your operating system.) Then you can just double-click the file.
o Are you using Windows? If so, you may want to consider installing the free viewer for Powerpoint document files available from the Microsoft web site. (You can install this instead of or as well as OpenOffice.) That will associate itself with .pps files (as well as .ppt files - but you can reset that if you wish) and will run your slide show directly. This product is all you actually *need* to display your file. But why not install OpenOffice anyway? Then you can edit presentations or create you own.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
