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can't view .pps attachment

#1 User is offline   1Bowtie 

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 06:22 PM

Tried opening an attachment in Win Live Mail with no luck, dl'd Powerpoint viewer 2007 and installed, kept getting error msg ck file association, ck that and was ok, still no work any suggestions appreciated

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 08:58 PM

Do you have the exact error? Do you know if the .PPS file opened in another app in another OS?

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Posted 14 January 2009 - 08:16 AM

Gamehead200

Sorry it took so long to get back, the error msg :this file does not have a program assoc with it for performing this action, pls install a program or if one is already installed create an assoc in the Default Prog control panel. At the top of this box it shows the path, D:\users\name\app data\local\microsoft\windows\temp internet files\content.ie5\24...

Hope this helps, Thanks again


edit: I went to control panel and ck'd file association and viewer is there for .pps

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 10:19 AM

Gamehead200

Found the problem, just needed to install older version pp97. I'm thinking if the attachment was made in an earlier version it needs that version to open it. Sometimes we make things harder than they really are.

Thanks again for help

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 09:08 AM

PP97? Holy moly... Office 2002/XP/2007 should have been able to open that without a problem. Weird...

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