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Hello,
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, even in the latest version of PowerPoint (2003),
presentations opened via the File -> Open command will always open up in an
editing view.
However, if it's still important to you (or anyone else reading this
message) that you be able to force presentations to come up in slide show
view automatically when opened from the File -> Open command, 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
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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