Summary: PPS files are PowerPoint presentations and you'll need a compatible viewer to view them. You may also need to create or repair the PPS file association.
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Since installing Windows XP SP2, I have been unable to open .pps files. Short of downloading Open Office which carries a .pps access, is there any other way of regaining this access? |
PPS files are created by Microsoft Office PowerPoint. PPS files are a common distribution form for PowerPoint presentations and slide shows.
Since you indicated that SP2 broke this, I'll assume that this was working at some point.
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The first question is, do you have PowerPoint? If so, running Microsoft Office's Setup and selecting Repair should do it. If you have the PowerPoint viewer installed, then it may also have a repair option on its Setup. Either can be accessed through Control Panel, Add/Remove programs.
If you have neither of those, you can certainly download Microsoft's free PowerPoint Viewer.
And finally, if you have PowerPoint or its viewer installed, you may only need to re-assign the "pps" association. This article: How do I make something other than "Picture and FAX Viewer" the default for viewing pictures? discusses the steps to associate a ".jpg" file with a graphics program. Use the same steps to associate ".pps" with PowerPoint or with the PowerPoint Viewer.
Related:
PPS files still don't work even after I created an association - what do I do? PPS files seem to cause many people problems. We'll look at how to go about configuring your system to view PPS files.
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How do I make something other than "Picture and FAX Viewer" the default for viewing pictures? Windows Picture and FAX Viewer is the default application for viewing images under Windows. But there are many other programs out there as well.
How do I get Word documents on the web to show up in Word, rather than my browser? By default Word and other documents are displayed within IE rather than in an instance of the application. It's an easy setting to change, once found.
Article C2244 - December 22, 2004
Download PowerPoint Viewer 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en
On XP pro the main Power Point Viewer Program will be saved here:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\PPTVIEW.EXE"
Posted by: Bill Richardson at May 25, 2009 6:12 PMI recently bought a computer with Vista Home Premium 32 bit with SP2.I have installed MS power point viewer 2003 and 2007.Cannot open .PPS files in my e-mail [windows mail].When I try to open I get the following messages: The selected file has an extension[.pps]that is not recognized by windows.When I hit retry button the following message appears: Windows Media Player cannot play file.The player might not support codec that was used to compress this file.I do not have MS Office.All I want to do is to be able to open >PPS files in my e-mail.
Posted by: Ed Ryan at June 24, 2009 7:29 AMCan you help???
Hi,I have downloaded powerpoint viewer several times. If .pps file is saved to my docs then it can be viewed. will not open from outlook express. Having to save and double click are too many extra steps. Can you please assist?
Posted by: Chuck stankich at June 27, 2009 10:26 PMHi Leo, I forgot to mention with previous comment that I have XP SP3 installed.
Posted by: chuck stankich at June 27, 2009 10:29 PMSame problem as Ed Ryan; in Windows Mail (Vista) I cannot open an attached pps or ppt file; I have to first save it to the desktop and open it there using the viewer. Is there no way to open it directly within Windows Mail?
Posted by: Ken Laninga at July 14, 2009 8:54 AMPower Point Viewer has been installed, but still can not open .pps files. Following your instructions on "How do I view "PPS" files", all went OK to window "Editing action for type....". At this point, the "Application used..." line shows Office12 instead of Powerpoint Viewer, but I clicked OK and a window showed stating "specified program could not be found. Make sure file name and path are correct". At this point, I need further help. Thanks.
Posted by: Ken Miyasaki at July 25, 2009 7:40 AMhow can i convert pps files to ppt........
Posted by: dr. astha at August 12, 2009 12:24 AMWhy do some pps files open on my nokia n95 and others don't ?
Posted by: Mark Gallagher at August 28, 2009 6:39 PMAbsolutely right on advice. Have been trying to read and solve this problem for over a week. This solved my problem in less than two minutes. Thanks!!
Posted by: BethAnn at September 24, 2009 9:33 AMI am running VISTA and cannot open PPS files attached to emails.Tried to save them to the desktop, but that didn't work either.
Message is:
Usage:
Posted by: Jim at November 5, 2009 5:49 PM/extract:path, extracts the content of the path folder
/quiet, runs the package in silent mode
/?, shows this held message