PPS & PPT doesn't start automatically

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Dirk

Hi,

PPT & PPS files are opened by Powerpoint 2000 but doesn't
start automatically ( it as default PPT file wich alway
opens ..)

Anybody an idea

Tanks in advance

Regards
 
PPT files generally open in Normal View while PPS files generally open in
Slide Show View. If I understand you correctly, you are double-clicking
on a PPS file, and it is opening in Normal View instead of Slide Show
View.

One possiblility is that your PPS file isn't really a PPS file. Windows
allows you to hide file extensions for known file types, so it is
possible to have a file named MyPres.pps.ppt that will look like the file
is a PPS (because Windows will hide the .ppt extension), but it is really
a PPT file.

If this is the case, you can either turn off the Windows feature that
hides extensions of known file types, or you can open the presentation in
PowerPoint and choose Save As. Under File Type, you can choose
PowerPoint Show (*.pps), and it will fix the extensions.

If this is not the case, you probably have a problem with your registry.

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Extensions are fooed it are really PPS files. How can we
repair the problem in the registry

thanks

Dirk
 
I have very little experience with playing with the registry, but here is
a pointer to an earlier thread that might answer your question.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=%
235wk6U%247CHA.2416%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%
3Dpowerpoint%2Bregistry%2Bpps%26ie%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den

Sorry the link is so long. I don't know how to get a shorter URL when
searching through groups.google.com.

--David

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Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Use the utility Tiny Url, which produces http://tinyurl.com/46qpb

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I have very little experience with playing with the registry, but here is
a pointer to an earlier thread that might answer your question.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=%
235wk6U%247CHA.2416%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%
3Dpowerpoint%2Bregistry%2Bpps%26ie%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den

Sorry the link is so long. I don't know how to get a shorter URL when
searching through groups.google.com.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
LOL. I look at it this way. if I can give a valid response, I would much rather
do so here rather than sending someone off somewhere else, where they may get an
invalid response.


Thanks. That's great. I thought we were only allowed to learn things
about PowerPoint here.
--David

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Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Uh Oh --- This sounds like an open invitation for thread drift. Anyone care
to pick the subject? Food, cooking, picking on Brian or Steve, etc. etc.
etc. :)

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Hi,

PPT & PPS files are opened by Powerpoint 2000 but doesn't
start automatically ( it as default PPT file wich alway
opens ..)
Click to expand...


Can you describe the problem in more detail? You can open files in several
ways. How are you opening these? Doubleclicking them in Windows Explorer,
using PowerPoint's File, Open menu item, etc?

What do you expect will happen when you do this?

What actually does happen?


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Extensions are fooed it are really PPS files. How can we
repair the problem in the registry
Click to expand...

Sometimes the easiest thing is to do a Help, Detect and Repair from within PPT
or to re-run setup. Setup will note that PPT/Office is already installed and
give you the option of a kind of tuneup reinstall that will fix busted registry
entries among other things.

In at least some versions of PPT you can run it with a /regserver option:

With PPT shut down:
Click Start
Click Run
Type in the full path to your PowerPnt.EXE file (surrounded in quotes) followed
by /regserver

For example:

"C:\Program Files\Office2003\OFFICE11\POWERPNT.EXE" /regserver

Then click OK

That will re-set the default registrations for PowerPoint files (PPT, PPS,
etc.)

I just tested this under PPT2003, WinXPPro by deliberately munching the
associations for PPS files. /regserver fixed it.



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