Re: Opening E-mail Attachment

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Have you installed the Viewer? If so find one of your PowerPoint
presentations and make sure that the file association point towards the
PowerPoint viewer. Once that is done, selecting open in OE will open the
presentation in the viewer.

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"Stu" <Stu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I have MS Outlook Express V6. I just downloaded PP Viewer, 2003. Is
there
| a fix to allow me to open the slide shows by simply clicking on the
| attachment in Outlook Express, or do I have to save every one of them
first?
| Thanks for your help.
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| Retired
|
|
| "David Doucet" wrote:
|
| > Thanks to the help given here, I'm able to open my PowerPoint Slide
Shows.
| > However, I can't open a .pps extension directly from an e- mail
attachment.
| > I have to save it.....saving it any place then allows me to open it.
| > I'll double click on the attachment and I see a box stating "Do you want
to
| > open this file?" It states that it's going to open it with Microsoft
| > PowerPoint Slide Show. I have a choice between clicking on "Open" or
| > "Cancel". When I click on "Open", I get a pop-up box that states:
| > "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing
| > this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control
panel."
| >
| > As I stated, if I save the attachment ANY WHERE, I can then open it in
the
| > PowerPoint Slide Show Viewer. What am I doing wrong ?
| >
| > Thanks,
| > David
| >
| >
| >


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