How do I convert a PP show to a PP presentation?

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I forgot to save a copy of the presentation (.PPT) and now I only have the
show that I need to make changes to. How do I change this?

Thanks!
 
ksg,

is the file that you have called

yourfilename.PPS (if so then just rename it)

so it becomes

yourfilename.PPT

then all is well.


Right click the filename and choose 'rename'

if you cannot see the 3 letter file extension - then have a read of this
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article01-401

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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That's not a good idea to rename the .PPS to .PPT.

In PowerPoint application, click File -> Open, choose the pps file, and then
you can use File -> Save As to save a copy to ppt file.

That's easy. :-)
 
You can also RIGHT click the file and choose "new"
William - I'd be interested to know why you think TAJ's idea is bad? .PPT
and .PPS files are the same except for the suffix.
 
You can also RIGHT click the file and choose "new"
William - I'd be interested to know why you think TAJ's idea is bad?
.PPT
and .PPS files are the same except for the suffix.
Click to expand...

Here's why I tend not to recommend just changing the file extension. Most
people have file extensions hidden. If you try to change the extension
while the extensions are hidden, it just adds a fake extension before the
real one. So, foo.pps would change to foo.ppt.pps and still be a PPS
file. An additional reason I don't recommend this method is that changing
the file extension almost never works for most file types. It happens to
work for PPS and PPT files because they are really the same thing, but I
don't want anyone to get in the habit of changing extensions (for
example, wanting to change a midi file into a wav just by changing the
extension from .mid to .wav).

With that said, if file extensions are showing, and you don't try to
generalize this procedure to other file types, just changing the file
extension from .pps to .ppt works just fine. Because of this, I wouldn't
say it is a "bad idea."

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
 
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