Hello,
Even in the latest version of PowerPoint (2003), presentations opened via
the File menu will always
open up in an editing view. In other responses to your post, workarounds
have been suggested using
the *.pps (PowerPoint Show) file extension and opening presentations from
the Windows shell.
However, if it's still important to you that you be able to force
presentations to come up in slide
show view automatically when opened from the File menu, don't forget to
send your feedback to
Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is
important to you that your product suggestion be implemented by Microsoft.
Microsoft receives
thousands of product suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any
given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important
to our customers so take the extra time to state your case as clearly and
completely as possible.
John Langhans
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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