On 15/8/06 8:54 PM, "Mervyn & Giuliana Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rosemary, thanks for explaining what pps and ppt are all about. In > this case I have received a ppt file and cannot get it to open. It > starts to open and there are a few moments when it says it is > creating a metafile and then the application quits. If I could get > the file saved as a pps might it then work? It opens on a PC in > Windows 2000. What would I tell my friend who can do that to get it > saved as a pps file? Clearly, power point is not an application I > have used for creating documents. > Merv > > At 8:15 PM +0800 15/8/06, Rosemary Horton wrote: >> No, >> pps just means PowerPoint Show.,..meant to be looked at, but not >> edited. Usually if you change the extension to ppt it works. >> >> PPS files open directly into PowerPoint's slide show player, while >> PPT files open in the PowerPoint editor. Most finalized >> presentations are saved as PPS files so people viewing them don't >> have to go through any extra steps to view the presentation as it >> was intended. >> >> >> Rosemary Horton >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> On 15 Aug 2006, at 20:03, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote: >> >>> I have been given a power point presentation that my Microsoft >>> Office 98 version of power point attempts to open and then quits. >>> The presentation's name has a suffix of .ppt. >>> Looking at other PP presentations that I have received and >>> successfully opened I notice the suffix is .pps >>> Have I encountered a feral file? >>> Merv >>> -- Hi Merv It's actually just as easy as changing the file name from .ppt to .pps. You don't need to open and save the file. In the Finder, or where the file is, just rename it with the 's' instead of the 't'. It should then open as a straight slide show. If it still doesn't open, then there may be something more a miss with it. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh**
