Automatically open .ppt attachment in slideshow mode

[rekop]

Hi. I am a newbie to powerpoint. I have made a presentation (10 pages). I am going to distribute the presentation as an email attachment to my client. But when I open the file, it opens in edit mode, not in slideshow mode. I want my client to be able to open the attachment directly in slideshow mode, without having to manually change to slideshow mode. How do I do this?
Kind regards, Peder

[Doctors_Assistant]

You need to save your presentation as a "Powerpoint Show"

Open the presentation you want to save as a slide show.
On the File menu, click Save As.
In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Show. Your slide show file will be saved with a .pps file extension.
When you open this file from your desktop, it will automatically start your presentation in slide show view

Thanks...your advise helped me.

[Punisher]

Doctors Assistant please can you help me I have a same problem and I read this,but when I try to do as you say I have a problem,in my Save at type lis I dont have an option PowerPoint show,I'am working with PowerPoint 2003

in Save type list there are option:
1.Presentation
2.Single file web page
3.Web Page
4.PowerPoint95
5.PowerPoint 97-2003 & 95 Presentation
6.Design Temlate

Please help me to resolve this problem

[RudyStyles]

Did you scroll down. The list you show us is what you see without scrolling down. You are looking for PowerPoint Show (*.pps) which is the option after Design Template (*.pot)

1.Presentation
2.Single file web page
3.Web Page
4.PowerPoint95
5.PowerPoint 97-2003 & 95 Presentation
6.Design Temlate
7.PowerPoint Show (*.pps)

I had being doing presentations for a long time but I never knew how to lock the edit mode.
And I did had the same problem to, when I was trying to save my presentation I cold not find >>>Powerpoint Show<<< but after trying for couple times I realize that I have to scroll down the bar and look for it.

Sorry for my writting I am just learning how to write.......

Thank you very much anyways.

[hedge15]

When I put my powerpoint slideshow on my web site clients downloading it have 2 options, save and open. when they hit open it opens in edit mode instead of a slideshow. Is there a way to lock the presentation so it ONLY opens as a slideshow even if they open and do not save it to their desktop?

sir
i want automatcally slide show file, pls help me, how to make my slide show file
i see ur ans. also, n i try but i can't make slide show file

pls sir this is very urgent topic
n reply me

thanks & regards!!
Parul Yadav

[DavidWebb]

As mentioned above it is very easy to set your PowerPoint to only open in slideshow mode.

Here is how you do this:

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation

2. Click the "File" menu in the upper left

3. Click the "Save As..." option

4. The "Save As..." dialog box opens up

5. At the very bottom of the box, click the drop down arrow on the "Save as type:"

6. Scroll down till you see "PowerPoint Show (*.pps)"

7. Enter your file name in the "File name:" box

8. Click the "Save" button

Now whenever you or your clients open this file it will start in the slideshow view automatically. Make sure that you select the file ".pps" not ".ppt" to give to others.

Hope this step by step helps!

Im using powerpoint 2007. I have a presentation that is only one slide long. I click save as, then power point show. It saves it with a .ppt extension. I re-open and and it opens it in edit mode. Is there something I forgot to do?

[John Wilson]

Are you sure you close either PowerPoint Show *.ppsx or 97-2003 PowerPoint Show *.pps?

You need to scroll down quite a bit to find these in 2007.

Thanks a lot Doct. I have found the solution abt PPT Slide show.

Thank you so much.

[kendo12]

Hi,
I have read the thread, and it has only partly helped me. I have saved my ppt presentation as a *.pps however when I open the new file, it does not automatically start as a slideshow. I have a scroll bar and a toolbar with File/Edit/Browse/Window/Help as my options and when I go to Browse and select full screen, I can view the slideshow as a presentation. Im a bit confused as I think Ive followed the steps correctly, but am having no luck.
Are you able to please help me?
Thanks
Kendo

[John Wilson]

Yo might want to check in Slide show > Set Up Show that you DONT have "Show in a window" checked.

Saving as pps has the desired effect when I open the Slideshow from a drive or an email attachment. However, if I publish it to a Microsoft Sharepoint document library, it still opens direct in Edit mode. The file extension is correctly set to "pps".

Any idea what's going on?

Your not the only one. Having the same problem here. When downloading the PPS file from a sharepoint server, it automaticly goes into editing mode.
have googled it a little bit but it seems like a bug between how Sharepoint handles the file or how he opens it..

If you have an answer on it, it would be much appriciated.

I'm not sure if this will work on SharePoint, but I've had luck getting a PowerPoint slideshow to open correctly when accessed via a web browser from the local intranet by creating a shortcut to the file, and then linking to the shortcut in the HTML, instead of the actual file. Instead of linking to say, presentation.pps, I link to the shortcut, presentation.pps.Lnk. Shortcuts, of course, have the usually hidden .Lnk extension.

Hope this is of some help!