
PPS file extension
MS PowerPoint Slide Show
.pps files are created and opened using Microsoft's PowerPoint application. PowerPoint is a presentation program and is mostly used for displaying digital slides during business/educational presentations and is also widely used for displaying picture slideshows received by email.
PowerPoint belongs to the Microsoft Office suite and is available for both the Windows and MAC OS operating systems. PowerPoint is now arguably the standard way of displaying slides, making the slide projector virtually redundant.
The .pps file can contain a combination of text, pictures and even movies. These files are all held within the actual .pps file, so you only have one file to distribute or receive. The .pps file also holds information on how the presentation is displayed, such as the transition effects between slides.
PowerPoint also saves presentations in .ppt (presentation), .pot (template) or .pptx (PowerPoint 2007).
There is no real difference between a .PPS and a .PPT file. You can even rename the extension and they'll still work. The difference lies in how PowerPoint treats the files, a .PPT file will instruct PowerPoint to open the file in 'edit mode' whereas a .PPS file indicates that the slideshow should be opened in 'Play mode'.
To create/open a .pps file, you will need PowerPoint (part of Microsoft Office suite) or PowerPoint Viewer 2007, which is available free from Microsoft's website (link below).
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Identifying Characters (ASCII):
Identifying Characters (Hex):
Program registry ID:
PowerPoint.SlideShow.8
PowerPointViewer.SlideShow.11
pps MIME Type:
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
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bruceb

2007-06-24 17:30:33
thanks dotwhat! =)

Brian Cairney

2007-07-25 23:41:16
Show me a way to open e-mails with .pps extensions. I have microsoft suite installed

leanaharman

2007-11-28 13:06:15
Want to download attachments and need to instal this program

Jay


2007-11-30 15:45:57
Hi leanaharman,
You can find a free powerpoint slideshow viewer from Microsoft in the links section above.
Hope this help, good luck

joe correia

2007-12-27 09:35:02
I need help to open my mails

suzi

2008-01-07 18:15:08
i need help to open my mails

Lonnie

2008-01-24 14:35:51
I am using AdobeGo Live for my website design.
I imported a powerpoint 97-2003 slide show .PPS file.
All works fine when opening the site with a computer that uses Office 97-2003. However,
when I open the website on another computer that has Powerpoint 2007, the Powerpoint opens as a.ppt in edit mode. Is this a bug in Powerpoint 2007? Is there a way around this?

ihab

2008-03-22 15:32:01
I need to download pps file to open my mail please

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You can find a free powerpoint slideshow viewer from Microsoft in the links section above.
Hope this help, good luck
I imported a powerpoint 97-2003 slide show .PPS file.
All works fine when opening the site with a computer that uses Office 97-2003. However,
when I open the website on another computer that has Powerpoint 2007, the Powerpoint opens as a.ppt in edit mode. Is this a bug in Powerpoint 2007? Is there a way around this?