Thread: Power Point Viewer

It normally opens with Microsioft Office which is expensive.

Open Office (freeware) will open power points and all MS Office stuff, its a great program.

www.openoffice.org if I recall correctly

That advice would only work for the most basic of PowerPoint presentations, if at all.

The correct solution is to use Windows Explorer and create an extension for PPS files that links to the PowerPoint viewer.

I had similar problems with viewing .pp files, I just re-installed the MS viewer. The .pp(Something) extensions are not unique to MS Powerpoint and some programs will stuff up the file associations. I am surprised that the error window does not bring up the 'use this program to open this type of file' window, but it doesn't always happen.

Of course, you could always use a non-MS email program like Eudora (available as a freebie as well as pay), Pegasus mail or one of the other free e-mail programs - MS is just a big target for hackers who try to break everything or slip mal-ware into your machine using a known bug in a MS program.

I tried Openoffice.....no change
I then reinstalled Powerpoint viewer
I then went into control panel, folder options,file types and allocated Powerpoint viewer to PPS. files. No change.
Where am I going wrong.

Thanks
macca

Vista has the same problem I am yet find anyone who can slove it

These will help:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&cr=&sloc=&p=1

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ppsopen.htm

(the second is more detailed)

Thanks Ron.
Problem solved using your the Microsoft site

Thanks again
Macca