Cannot open PPS (or "play" slideshows) anymore!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mart?n Alejandro Carmona Selva
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Mart?n Alejandro Carmona Selva

Hello!
I bought a Pentium 4 XP-Pro last year!
So far, so good, the box hadn't have ANY single problem (just one
issue with the CD Burner, but nothing that a quick fix couldn't
repare).

Nevertheless, some weeks ago, a friend of mine emailed me a PPS file
(a great joke in several slides). I tryied to open it, but it was
impossible, PowerPoint would stay for AGES trying to open it, but
nothing would show on the screen.

I guessed it was a problem on that PPS so, I renamed it to PPT and
opened in "edit" mode.

I tryied to run it from the main application, but, the same happened,
the second thread (actually I don't know if it's another thread or
just a new item in taskbar ;-), but nothing ever happened.

I left it thinking that presentation was the problem.

Even since that day I'm UNABLE TO "PLAY" ***ANY*** POWERPOINT
SLIDESHOW!

It's not such a problem since I have Adobe Acrobat 6 and I can conver
it to PDF to open it, but I STILL WANT THIS PROBLEM FIXED. (Or open it
with open office on my linux box)

I don't know what could be happening, I tryied everything to fix it,
but I'm unable to do it. I searched the whole net, but nothing was I
able to find.

So, if anyone has ANY ideas, please, do answer me (preferable with a
copy to (e-mail address removed) since I can't read news in a easy
way).

Thank you in advance,

/Martín Alejandro Carmona Selva

I'm up to date with all patches
 
Open PowerPoint and go to Slide Show > Set up show and see whether you have
it set to display on the secondary monitor. If you do, change it to Primary
Monitor and try playing a show. Does it work now?
 
Do this:
Open PowerPoint
Open the show (ppt)
Click SlideShow
Click Set-Up Show ...
Change the setting labeled 'multiple monitors' to Primary monitor
Ok out of everything
Click F5


Now here's why you did that. PowerPoint will automatically sense if your
computer has multiple screen abilities and default to dual screen mode if
there is more than one. You probably have the abilities with your computer
but do not have a second monitor plugged in. Therefore it is showing the
presentation on a non-existent monitor.

Post back if this isn't the fix you needed.

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