Re: PowerPoint Slide Show

You should always save attachments to your hard drive. Open the hard drive
copy, not the email attachment.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"Joy" <joymp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks. I haven't gotten back with you until I was able to talk with my
friend, which I did tonight. He Removed MS Office from Add/Remove
Programs. It still has PowerPoint listed, but it won't open. I'll send
him this website which you gave. I'm sorry, but I don't understand what
you mean about saving the PPT/PPS files from his e-mail.

"Echo S" <msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know about getting rid of the offer popup, but I do know there is
a free PowerPoint Viewer your friend can download to view PPT and PPS
files.

Here's a link to the download. After downloading, double-click the file
to install it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en

Since that link's really long, here's a shorter link to the same page:
http://tinyurl.com/6b6g5

Also, tell your friend he needs to save the PPT/PPS files from his email
to his harddrive and then open them. There can be issues when trying to
open PPT/PPS files from within Outlook Express (and maybe Outlook, too, I
don't recall) if you only have the PowerPoint Viewer and not the full
PowerPoint program.

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"Joy" <joymp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had asked about this a while back, but my NGs don't seem to go back far
enough to find. This is for the friend that I try to help because he has
visual problems. We tried to download PPS for him, but since he had a MS
Office free trial thing on his computer, that offer kept popping up. So,
OK, we activated that and then he had all of Office, including
PowerPoint. But now that trial is over and he doesn't want to purchase
Office. (He has WordPerfect and for the little he does with documents,
that is sufficient.) He does, however, enjoy working with pictures, and
viewing slide shows sent to him by e-mail. I had been told by someone
on the NG that they thought PPS would remain after the trial is over, but
he just notified me that it will not open. Where should he go from here?
When he originally tried to download the free PPS, that Office trial
popped up. It's doing it again. Is there any way to delete that "offer"
pop-up so it won't be in his computer at all? And them maybe he can
download PPS? Thanks for any help with this.





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