Re:

[scuzzy]

The pps extension is for "Power Point Slide". These are self-executing slide presentations that people often use to show off a series of photos that often includes text and titles. I'm not sure if you have to have Power Point installed, but you may need to. I do have Power Point on all my computers, so the files always execute without problems. - SCUZZY



 

[Bubba]

thanks Scuzzy,,,,



I did a search for some kind of PPS reader,,, Tucows had one for a Mac,, and then some PPs "add-ons" I think,, but I did not see anything that looked like what I needed... My mother-in-law's new Dell will not read .pps either,, and I have not had time to really screw that up yet,, so I do not think this lack-of-read-problemm is my doing ???  What do I have to do to be able to read .pps files ?



 

[n/a]

Hey, Bubba. I've had the same problem--my wife does Power Point presentations at work, but since I have only the Small Business Edition of MS Office (without Power Point) installed on my Q, I can't open her .pps attachments. You can change the file extension to .jpg or .gif, but then you can only open one frame of the slide show in that format, which doesn't help much, though it gives you an idea what the presentation is about.



What you can do is install the Professional Editon of MS Office 97 or 98, which includes Power Point. You can find a more complete version of Office available on eBay for around twenty bucks.



Bear

 -Learning as fast I can-

[Bubba]

well,, it isn't such a big deal,, just annoying,,,  I think my wife is sending me some "woosie" stuff anyway,,,, she is trying to soften me up for a take-over,,,, I like being an animal,,,so I may just let it slide,,, Thanks for the info ,,,,



 

[Pete]

Ho Bubba,

Don't know if this will help any but you can get a Power point Viewer here or from MS download site.

HTH,Pete



http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Grap/ppview97.htm



Pete

[Bubba]

cool,,,,,,,, thanks Pete



greg,,,,,,



 

[obiwan]

I think if you change the extension to .ppt, you can open the files one at a time and use other viewers to view the slides one at a time





 

[Joanie]

PP,



You know what those PPS attachments stand for don't you????????? Just in case you don't, think "PPSwan.ext



Joanie (being silly)

quote:

Ho Bubba,

Don't know if this will help any but you can get a Power point Viewer here or from MS download site.

HTH,Pete



http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Grap/ppview97.htm



Pete

 

[Bubba]

I get sent these attachments with the   .pps  extension,,, I can not open them,, I have a bunch of viewers,, [ I am told theses are phots and or images ] and I use Irfan View as my default viewer,, worked better than the Windows one,, but nothing I have seems to open these files,, any ideas ?