I use Microsoft Frontpage to maintain our real estate company web site.
For each listing we have I create a PowerPoint slide show to use as a
brochure. On the web, I add a link to this slide show saved in the .pps
format. When I visit our web site and click the link I am prompted to either
open or save the file. I choose open to view it. A problem often arises as I
navigate through the slide show. On some pages, and there is no pattern to
it, a box pops up when trying to view the next page asking if I want to save
changes or not. Can anyone tell me how to eliminate this?
I'm not certain that this is the problem, but it stands a fair chance - when
you open a PPS from the web and have PPT installed, the downloaded file is
saved as a PPT, not a PPS. The file's the same, but PowerPoint treats it a
bit differently, and might assume that since you've opened an editable (ie,
PPT) file, you might want to save the changes (which could be nothing more
than the view the presentation's in).
Have a look here:
Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.rdpslides.com/ptfaq/FAQ00189.htm
Particularly, follow the link to: "PowerPoint Show (*.pps) File Copies As a
PowerPoint (.ppt) File from an IIS Web Server"
It explains how you can create a new MIME type at the server to force the
file to download as a PPS instead of PPT. That might be all it takes.
If so, please do let us know? Thanks!
