Opening a .pps extention

Factual Questions
#1

A friend of mine sent me and e-mail with a .pps attachment. Upon saving it to my HD, I clicked on it, and it opened up MS Media Player, but the MP wouldn’t play it.

I did a bit of research, and found it was a PowerPoint file. Since I don’t have PP on my computer, I e-mailed her and asked her what she opened it with. She didn’t have PP either, but it opened fine on her machine.

I guess my question is… Is there any other (free) programs that DO open this type of file?

The most rewarding part was when I got my money!
-Dr. Nick Riviera

#2

Ask your friend what program was launched when she “opened” the file. If she double-clicked on it in Windows Explorer, and it “opened”, then some program must have started up which loaded in the file.

Arjuna34

#3

hope this works…
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/Ppview97.htm?s=/downloadCatalog/dldPowerPoint.asp

Powerpoint viewer availible from MS for free.

System & OS requirements are listed at the bottom of the page.

#4

Deathawk, thank you! Sounds like what I’m looking for. I checked the MS site, but I never came across this… just downloading it as I type this message… :slight_smile:

The most rewarding part was when I got my money!
-Dr. Nick Riviera

#5

There’s also a free office suite from Sun called StarOffice (I think), that can open .pps files.

#6

Thought Star Office was for the Linux OS…
yah never know I guess…

Squee (and anyone else interested) - Whenever you are looking for just about anything relating to products in the MS office Suite, it’s usually best to directly to the office update site ( http://officeupdate.microsoft.com ) They keep almost all of the Office information, add-ins, viewers, service packs, support etc. at that site.