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9 Replies Last post: Jan 21, 2005 12:51 PM by nelson92  
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loveanale
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Jan 20, 2005 7:39 AM

.pps Attachments ?

I receive Power Point attachments in some of my emails but can't find an application that will open them. Does anyone have any suggestions ?

Thanks
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DPG4450Guy
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1. Jan 20, 2005 8:06 AM in response to: loveanale
Re: .pps Attachments ?
You have the option of using Microsoft Powerpoint, NeoOffice/J, or OpenOfficeOrg.
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drmbb
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2. Jan 20, 2005 8:13 AM in response to: loveanale
Re: .pps Attachments ?
Ideally you need MS Office, or at least MS PowerPoint X. If not that, there other commercial and shareware apps available for viewing them - check versiontracker.com or macupdate.com. The only freeware viewers I know of are older programs (eg. PowerPoint 98 viewer - search for it and I'm sure it's still around for download) which run under classic, but may not be able to open a PP file made with a newer version of the program.

Keynote should also open PowerPoint files.
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3. Jan 20, 2005 8:29 AM in response to: DPG4450Guy
Re: .pps Attachments ?
Or Keynote.
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Grant_G
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4. Jan 20, 2005 10:21 AM in response to: drmbb
Re: .pps Attachments ?
I thought a .pps was a self-opening slide show. Anyway, I think you can download a free PowerPoint Slideshow viewer from the MS website.

G
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drmbb
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5. Jan 20, 2005 10:45 AM in response to: Grant_G
Re: .pps Attachments ?
.pps files open directly into PowerPoints slide show, while .ppt files open in editor mode. They both still need PowerPoint or compatible viewers to see them. MS does not make an updated powerpoint viewer for OS X - the best you can get is PowerPoint Viewer 4 for classic, and even that you won't find any longer on MS's web site. It can be downloaded from www.tucows.com.

You could also ask the sender to save it as a .mov file and then view it with Quicktime.

<edit> Seems you can still get Powerpoint viewer 98 from Mactopia.com and run it in classic, if need be.
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6. Jan 20, 2005 3:01 PM in response to: drmbb
Re: .pps Attachments ?
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You could also ask the sender to save it as a .mov file and then view it with Quicktime.

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Sadly, the Winblows version of PowerPoint can not do that.
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drmbb
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7. Jan 20, 2005 5:55 PM in response to: Praxis
Re: .pps Attachments ?
Really? How silly is that? Although, I suppose I shouldn't be surprized by anything Redmond does anymore.
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Praxis
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8. Jan 20, 2005 7:11 PM in response to: drmbb
Re: .pps Attachments ?
Well, you can't save PDF files with anything in Windows, either like you can do on the Mac with almost anything.

MS is just behind with the times
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nelson92
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9. Jan 21, 2005 12:51 PM in response to: loveanale
Re: .pps Attachments ?
iCWord will do the job.
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