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Thread ID: 101679 2009-07-23 00:13:00 opening an email attachment which is a powerpoint slide show. vdv81 (15114) Press F1
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794303 2009-07-23 00:13:00 I received an email from overseas which is a powerpoint slideshow. It contains
at least some music which windows media player let me play but I cannot access the paintings of Goya which are on it accompanied by the music.
Could it have been sent in a faulty way?
Thanks
Frank
vdv81 (15114)
794304 2009-07-23 00:17:00 Is powerpoint installed? Speedy Gonzales (78)
794305 2009-07-23 01:47:00 Yers, I have PowerPoint Viewer and PowerPoint installed vdv81 (15114)
794306 2009-07-23 02:06:00 When you click on the slideshow file, does the preview of the content show at all? or is it just the music that plays? ronyville (10611)
794307 2009-07-24 05:08:00 Hi Ronyville,
I can't see any preview of the contents.
Cheers,
Frank
vdv81 (15114)
794308 2009-07-24 05:40:00 Redownload it and try again I have found that for some reason Powerpoint attachments often arrive faulty and need to be redownloaded or Forward to another of your eMail addresses and then download again, always works in the end for me. zqwerty (97)
794309 2009-07-24 07:20:00 Also made sure it is .pps or .ppt, if not try adding whatever you see on the attachment before you down load it, sometimes mine arrive with no type even though it is clearly visible at the eMail attachment site. zqwerty (97)
794310 2009-07-24 07:57:00 I was having the same problem trying to view powerpoint attachments in outlookexpress and was finally able to fix it.
This is what worked for me:

Make sure you have the microsoft powerpoint viewer installed

Press Start->run - then type control folders- In the folder options box select file types and then scroll to pps (microsoft powerpoint slideshow)
Select "new" then in the action box type - Open.

In the Application used to perform this action type the path to your pptview file or select browse to find it
In my case this is what I had to type in - Please note the quotation marks are very important. Type exactly as shown:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\PowerPoint Viewer\pptview.exe" "%1"

Make sure use DDE is unchecked and then press O.K. and O.K. again

Should now work if this was the same problem you were having.

Cheers
lazydog (148)
794311 2009-07-24 08:08:00 You might want to download and install PPSFix from here windowsxp.mvps.org
:)
Trev (427)
794312 2009-07-29 22:51:00 I am now convenced that there must be a fault in it and I asked the sender to send it again.
Thanks for your help,
Frank
vdv81 (15114)
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