Hi guys

(Michael and Steve; still interested?)

Yes, I am stubborn! Because I dislike MS's setting and because my dumped
laptop with Win 2K Pro and Office XP
behaves properly after applying a tweak, read somewhere on Internet. Where
... I don't remember. It was a 'by the
way' on a site about Excel registry tricks, perhaps increasing the undo
stack.

I searched my Registry and found key
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find\Microsoft
PowerPoint\Settings\Openen\View
(I'm not sure about 'Openen' or 'Open' because I use the Multilingual Office
in Dutch)
with value and data
Preview view   Data = 04 16 00 17 ........
Detail view      Data = 04 16 00 37 ........
and e.g. Properties is   04 16 00 27 ........

So far so good. But ... on my new computer PowerPoint overrides my manual
registry setting. Who knows what
to do?

(A small step for man, a giant leap for PPt users ;-) )

Mvg, Frans