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From: MMagnus on 26 Mar 2010 13:26
I have a PPS file I want people to download from my website, however when you
download it from the website it changes from a PPS to a PPT file.

Why is this happening and is there anyway to prevent it?

Thanks
From: Steve Rindsberg on 26 Mar 2010 16:13
In article <EB82CE8D-E140-44BE-BFFE-0C486C487511(a)microsoft.com>, MMagnus wrote:
> I have a PPS file I want people to download from my website, however when you
> download it from the website it changes from a PPS to a PPT file.
>
> Why is this happening and is there anyway to prevent it?

Are you interested in having users download the file then open it for viewing?

If so, zipping it will prevent that. Users'd have to unzip the file to view it,
of course, but that's a lot simpler nowadays.

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From: MMagnus on 26 Mar 2010 17:38
Thanks for the quick reply.
I just got it to work by saving it as a show in PowerPoint 2007 (I have both
2007 and 97-2003 but prefer to work in 97-2003). When you save it as a show
in 2007 it greatly reducer the size of the file, and has a file extension of
PPSM instead of PPS. Anyway it works, thanks again.
From: LVTravel on 26 Mar 2010 21:16


"MMagnus" <MMagnus(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6902C27F-FB89-4B9E-8DD4-C31D39106CF7(a)microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> I just got it to work by saving it as a show in PowerPoint 2007 (I have
> both
> 2007 and 97-2003 but prefer to work in 97-2003). When you save it as a
> show
> in 2007 it greatly reducer the size of the file, and has a file extension
> of
> PPSM instead of PPS. Anyway it works, thanks again.


The issue you will have with the new way of saving it is that if the
receiver does not have PPT 2007 or PPT viewer 2007 or the compatibility pack
installed onto older versions of PPT the view will fail.

Since you saved this as a macro enabled show (do you really run macros in
the show?) that can also present issues if the person's computer is set to
not run macros because of security issues.

From: Matti Vuori on 27 Mar 2010 01:51
=?Utf-8?B?TU1hZ251cw==?= <MMagnus(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:EB82CE8D-E140-44BE-BFFE-0C486C487511(a)microsoft.com:

> I have a PPS file I want people to download from my website, however
> when you download it from the website it changes from a PPS to a PPT
> file.
>
> Why is this happening and is there anyway to prevent it?

Most likely this is due to a misconfigured web site (bad MIME type for .pps
files) and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The former can be fixed with a
..xtaccess file on the server (on most web servers) or similar means that
tell the system what kind of a file a .pps file is. You definitely should
not have to resort to zipping the file.
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