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NES - 05 Mar 2008 07:09 GMT

Suddenly, when I wish to view a PPS file, it opens in PowerPoint for editing
rather than auto starting the show. It's happening to all my saved PPS files.
I'm using Office 2003.

This change has occurred after some battles with a trial version of MS
Office 2007 over who is actually in charge of my computer. Me or Office
2007. I have since removed Office 2007.

Resaving files as PPS files doesn't help. Any suggestions would be most
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA

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Luc - 05 Mar 2008 07:50 GMT

Nes,
Maybe this is the answer to your problem:
http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00355.htm

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> Suddenly, when I wish to view a PPS file, it opens in PowerPoint for
> editing
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> Resaving files as PPS files doesn't help. Any suggestions would be most
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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NES - 05 Mar 2008 10:01 GMT

Thank you very much. I followed one of their suggestions (select a file |
Tools | Folder options, etc. and everything is back to normal. So simple.
Thanks again.

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Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA

> Nes,
> Maybe this is the answer to your problem:
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> > Resaving files as PPS files doesn't help. Any suggestions would be most
> > appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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John Wilson - 05 Mar 2008 08:31 GMT

As well as the steps in Luc's link can you right click a pps icon and check
which command is in BOLD?

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> Suddenly, when I wish to view a PPS file, it opens in PowerPoint for editing
> rather than auto starting the show. It's happening to all my saved PPS files.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> Resaving files as PPS files doesn't help. Any suggestions would be most
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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NES - 05 Mar 2008 10:02 GMT

John, thank you for replying. Using Luc's suggestion I was able to resolve
the problem. Thanks again.

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Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA

> As well as the steps in Luc's link can you right click a pps icon and check
> which command is in BOLD?
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> > Resaving files as PPS files doesn't help. Any suggestions would be most
> > appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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