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Brett - 18 May 2008 21:12 GMT

Based on various reading, I've tried saving as a .pps, .pptx and more, but
these PowerPoint 2003 files never open up in any way other than the 'normal'
edit mode (it worked perfectly with PowerPoint 2007 (trial).)

I need to send it to people who may not know to look under menu < Slide Show

> < View Show > and have no need of anything but to see the presentation.

Help, please.

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Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[ - 18 May 2008 21:53 GMT

At least you can tell people to press F5 to start the slideshow

> Based on various reading, I've tried saving as a .pps, .pptx and more, but
> these PowerPoint 2003 files never open up in any way other than the
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>> < View Show > and have no need of anything but to see the presentation.
> Help, please.

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Echo S - 18 May 2008 23:30 GMT

Perhaps your file associations for PPS (and / or PPSX) are messed up.

Changing a File Association, Repairing broken File Associations
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00355.htm

(Saving as PPTX won't force the file to open in slide show view. But saving
as PPS should...)

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