ppt slide show

[Papa John]

Someone sent me a slide show via email and it has some great pix in it. However, even though it is listed a a microsoft powerpoint slide show, I can't get it to open in a powerpoint window, so I can manipulate it. It just plays the slide show in full screen. i don't want to use all the pix, and I want to add text. Anyway to do it?

[Winston]

Does the file have a "pps" extension?

[Gene]

It might be a PowerPoint Show (.pps) vs. a regular PowerPoint file (.ppt), but from what I recall, PowerPoint can still open those. Try running Powerpoint and then opening it there. If that doesn't work, try renaming the file from whatever.pps to whatever.ppt and try again.

However...there's the question of copyrights of the images. I'd guess the original creator of the slideshow didn't get rights to the images, they just found them and used them, at least that's likely been the case with such slideshows I've seen passed around. Before you use the images, you should make sure it's OK to use them.

[Papa John]

I was able to open it from the powerpoint program. thanks!

[Winston]

John,

Try these suggestions.

A .pps file is just a PowerPoint Show file, that is, a normal presentation file which will open up in full screen mode as soon as you double-click it. In this way, you don't have the possibility to modify it or to discover the tricks which lie behind. Apparently.

Yes, because if you want to modify and edit a .pps file, you can do the following:

a) Right-click in the file icon holding down the shift key (if you have Windows Millennium you will not need to hold it down).

b) Choose "Open with..." from the context menu

c) Select "PowerPoint" from the "Open With" dialog box


Otherwise, you can also

a) right-click on the file icon

b) choose "Rename"

c) replace ".pps" with ".ppt".