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PowerPoint viewer
I have Powerpoint 2003 viewer that I downloaded to be able
to view .pps files recd by email. I find that I cannot open the attachment in the Outlook Express mail as I can do with other attachments e.g. .jpg etc., but must save the pps file in my documents folder where it can then be opened. The error msg when I try to open in OE is that I need to associate that kind of file. I cannot accomplish this...doesn't recognize the path etc. What am I doing wrong. I have successfully associated file formats before. OS is XP. |
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Try this:
1. Open Windows Explorer and click onTools . Folder Options 2. Click on File Types tab 3. Click New and add PPS and click OK 4. Now locate PPS in the list of Registered file types and select it. 5. Click on Change and select a program. You'll want to browse to and select pptview.exe 6. Then click on Advanced and add an action - - Show - - and set it as the defaulT. 7. OK your way out. Now try to open an email attachment that has an extension of PPS. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials "optionn" wrote in message ... I have Powerpoint 2003 viewer that I downloaded to be able to view .pps files recd by email. I find that I cannot open the attachment in the Outlook Express mail as I can do with other attachments e.g. .jpg etc., but must save the pps file in my documents folder where it can then be opened. The error msg when I try to open in OE is that I need to associate that kind of file. I cannot accomplish this...doesn't recognize the path etc. What am I doing wrong. I have successfully associated file formats before. OS is XP. |
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So far has not worked. Does the fact that I do not have
MS Office make any difference ? -----Original Message----- Try this: 1. Open Windows Explorer and click onTools . Folder Options 2. Click on File Types tab 3. Click New and add PPS and click OK 4. Now locate PPS in the list of Registered file types and select it. 5. Click on Change and select a program. You'll want to browse to and select pptview.exe 6. Then click on Advanced and add an action - - Show - - and set it as the defaulT. 7. OK your way out. Now try to open an email attachment that has an extension of PPS. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials "optionn" wrote in message ... I have Powerpoint 2003 viewer that I downloaded to be able to view .pps files recd by email. I find that I cannot open the attachment in the Outlook Express mail as I can do with other attachments e.g. .jpg etc., but must save the pps file in my documents folder where it can then be opened. The error msg when I try to open in OE is that I need to associate that kind of file. I cannot accomplish this...doesn't recognize the path etc. What am I doing wrong. I have successfully associated file formats before. OS is XP. . |
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No, don't think so. What doesn't work? Does the action list include Open?
wrote in message ... So far has not worked. Does the fact that I do not have MS Office make any difference ? -----Original Message----- Try this: 1. Open Windows Explorer and click onTools . Folder Options 2. Click on File Types tab 3. Click New and add PPS and click OK 4. Now locate PPS in the list of Registered file types and select it. 5. Click on Change and select a program. You'll want to browse to and select pptview.exe 6. Then click on Advanced and add an action - - Show - - and set it as the defaulT. 7. OK your way out. Now try to open an email attachment that has an extension of PPS. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials "optionn" wrote in message ... I have Powerpoint 2003 viewer that I downloaded to be able to view .pps files recd by email. I find that I cannot open the attachment in the Outlook Express mail as I can do with other attachments e.g. .jpg etc., but must save the pps file in my documents folder where it can then be opened. The error msg when I try to open in OE is that I need to associate that kind of file. I cannot accomplish this...doesn't recognize the path etc. What am I doing wrong. I have successfully associated file formats before. OS is XP. . |
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Yes the action list has "open" only on it.
click the attachment in the email and you are asked if you want to open this file. yes......powerpoint starts to open and then a series of messages: "PPviewer cannot find the 'Documents'" clicking OK then : " " " " " file 'and' " " : " 'local' " 'temporary' " internet name of the file (1) pps The file can still be opened by saving to my documents and then doing a start - microsoft powerpoint viewer 2003 icon -select the file in the documents folder -----Original Message----- No, don't think so. What doesn't work? Does the action list include Open? wrote in message ... So far has not worked. Does the fact that I do not have MS Office make any difference ? -----Original Message----- Try this: 1. Open Windows Explorer and click onTools . Folder Options 2. Click on File Types tab 3. Click New and add PPS and click OK 4. Now locate PPS in the list of Registered file types and select it. 5. Click on Change and select a program. You'll want to browse to and select pptview.exe 6. Then click on Advanced and add an action - - Show - - and set it as the defaulT. 7. OK your way out. Now try to open an email attachment that has an extension of PPS. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials "optionn" wrote in message ... I have Powerpoint 2003 viewer that I downloaded to be able to view .pps files recd by email. I find that I cannot open the attachment in the Outlook Express mail as I can do with other attachments e.g. .jpg etc., but must save the pps file in my documents folder where it can then be opened. The error msg when I try to open in OE is that I need to associate that kind of file. I cannot accomplish this...doesn't recognize the path etc. What am I doing wrong. I have successfully associated file formats before. OS is XP. . . |
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Well, the Viewer is apparently not able to find the file in your temp folder
because it is parsing the path with each space encountered. I guess you'll just have to do a save to your hard drive and open from there. You should be able to right click it and select "Show" from the menu, if you followed the steps I gave you. Otherwise you'll need to open the Viewer and then open the file from the dialog. wrote in message ... Yes the action list has "open" only on it. click the attachment in the email and you are asked if you want to open this file. yes......powerpoint starts to open and then a series of messages: "PPviewer cannot find the 'Documents'" clicking OK then : " " " " " file 'and' " " : " 'local' " 'temporary' " internet name of the file (1) pps The file can still be opened by saving to my documents and then doing a start - microsoft powerpoint viewer 2003 icon -select the file in the documents folder -----Original Message----- No, don't think so. What doesn't work? Does the action list include Open? wrote in message ... So far has not worked. Does the fact that I do not have MS Office make any difference ? -----Original Message----- Try this: 1. Open Windows Explorer and click onTools . Folder Options 2. Click on File Types tab 3. Click New and add PPS and click OK 4. Now locate PPS in the list of Registered file types and select it. 5. Click on Change and select a program. You'll want to browse to and select pptview.exe 6. Then click on Advanced and add an action - - Show - - and set it as the defaulT. 7. OK your way out. Now try to open an email attachment that has an extension of PPS. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials "optionn" wrote in message ... I have Powerpoint 2003 viewer that I downloaded to be able to view .pps files recd by email. I find that I cannot open the attachment in the Outlook Express mail as I can do with other attachments e.g. .jpg etc., but must save the pps file in my documents folder where it can then be opened. The error msg when I try to open in OE is that I need to associate that kind of file. I cannot accomplish this...doesn't recognize the path etc. What am I doing wrong. I have successfully associated file formats before. OS is XP. . . |
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Sonia: I appreciate your attempt to help. Right click
only offers open,print, save as, save all. I'm not sure that file is in the temp internet (I can't locate it). I was wondering if the proble, had anything to do with the " "%1" which has been present on and off during my efforts to make this work. Also I noted that sometimes " preceeded C:\Program Files\ msoffice\powerpoint viewer\pptview.exe and sometimes followed. The same changes noted with the "%1" which has sometimes followed that path. DDE has generally been checked. Several times I was aware of error indications about the path formulation (or something). I had suspected that d/l of the viewer without having MS Office had something to do with the limitation I have encountered. If you get any more ideas I'll appreciate hearing them. Meanwhile it looks like I have to save to My documents folder and then start the viewer. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- Well, the Viewer is apparently not able to find the file in your temp folder because it is parsing the path with each space encountered. I guess you'll just have to do a save to your hard drive and open from there. You should be able to right click it and select "Show" from the menu, if you followed the steps I gave you. Otherwise you'll need to open the Viewer and then open the file from the dialog. wrote in message ... Yes the action list has "open" only on it. click the attachment in the email and you are asked if you want to open this file. yes......powerpoint starts to open and then a series of messages: "PPviewer cannot find the 'Documents'" clicking OK then : " " " " " file 'and' " " : " 'local' " 'temporary' " internet name of the file (1) pps The file can still be opened by saving to my documents and then doing a start - microsoft powerpoint viewer 2003 icon -select the file in the documents folder -----Original Message----- No, don't think so. What doesn't work? Does the action list include Open? wrote in message ... So far has not worked. Does the fact that I do not have MS Office make any difference ? -----Original Message----- Try this: 1. Open Windows Explorer and click onTools . Folder Options 2. Click on File Types tab 3. Click New and add PPS and click OK 4. Now locate PPS in the list of Registered file types and select it. 5. Click on Change and select a program. You'll want to browse to and select pptview.exe 6. Then click on Advanced and add an action - - Show - - and set it as the defaulT. 7. OK your way out. Now try to open an email attachment that has an extension of PPS. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials "optionn" wrote in message ... I have Powerpoint 2003 viewer that I downloaded to be able to view .pps files recd by email. I find that I cannot open the attachment in the Outlook Express mail as I can do with other attachments e.g. .jpg etc., but must save the pps file in my documents folder where it can then be opened. The error msg when I try to open in OE is that I need to associate that kind of file. I cannot accomplish this...doesn't recognize the path etc. What am I doing wrong. I have successfully associated file formats before. OS is XP. . . . |
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its a very old entry, but is there any solution available now?
I have the same problem and wasted a long time for troubleshooting. I fixed it temporarily by using the old 97 version of pptview. Quote:
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