How to modify a Power Point Show (.pps)
Posted by Jimmy Selix in Microsoft Powerpoint
This is a super easy and quick recipe. I came across this problem at work a while ago, I had received a powerpoint show (pps) and needed make changes but could not since it does not launch powerpoint but runs the slideshow.
1. Be sure to have your view so you can see all extension types. (In Windows Explorer, Tools > Folder Options > View tab and unchecck the “Hide extensions for known file types” )
2. Just rename the files w/a .ppt extension. i.e. meetingshow.pps -> meetingshow.ppt
3. Now you can make changes and edits to the show. You can also do the reverse too, make a ppt into a pps just by changing the extension.
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October 15, 2008 at 3:28 pm, Leonard D. Odea said:
When I recieve an email with a pps extention, I cannot open it. The above infomation did not work. What do I have to do to open these attatchments?
December 01, 2008 at 4:13 pm, Thilina Dampahala said:
What do u really wanna do…u wanna convert it from .pps to .ppt or some thing else. If u can conver it into .ppt, then u can do whetever u want……..This is what is to be done…
Rather than double clicking on the pps file, go into PowerPoint and then File> Open and then open the file.
As long as it has not been protected you should be able to open and edit it.
December 01, 2008 at 4:11 pm, Thilina Dampahala said:
Y worrying this much…Do this.
Rather than double clicking on the pps file, go into PowerPoint and then File> Open and then open the file.
As long as it has not been protected you should be able to open and edit it.
December 06, 2008 at 9:04 pm, caesar said:
How I can rename a pptx ?
January 17, 2009 at 6:30 am, geek said:
I think you need 2007 power point and then save as 2003 compatible and then you’ll able save as ppt simply.
March 27, 2009 at 2:44 pm, natalie said:
you are a life saver!! I had two files my .ppt and my .pps and when i went to open the .ppt to make changes it came up with an error message to say the file was corrupt so I thought I would have to do the whole thing all over again (a 42 page presentation!) but thankfully i came across this page and managed to convert my .pps file back so I could edit it.
I wouldnt have thought of doing this – cant thank you enough!!
April 01, 2009 at 11:25 am, Manzur said:
THank You Boss ..it helped me a Lot
Manzur Morshed
HR Analyst
Bangladesh
April 14, 2009 at 3:05 am, islam said:
my pps is protected and i have forget its pass and i can not edit it what shall i do now and it doesn`t work the way of chang the extension
thanx to you
April 19, 2009 at 10:23 am, Paul Pace said:
Sorry, this file is not a Power Point presentation.
This is the message I get when I try to open a file which had an extension .pps and I converted to .ppt according to the above instructions.
When I changed the file’s extenstion I got this message :-
If you change a file name extension, the file may become unusable.
Are you sure you want to change it?
Can someone help me please?
August 20, 2009 at 6:42 pm, Anonymous said:
Very useful tip. It worked!! Thanks
October 14, 2009 at 1:55 pm, Anonymous said:
Thanx bhai..
December 31, 2009 at 4:13 pm, Anonymous said:
thanks a lot man!
April 17, 2010 at 11:42 am, Jawahar mms said:
it has been helped me lot. thank you very much !!!
May 26, 2010 at 9:24 am, l's said:
thank you worked just fine
May 28, 2010 at 4:52 pm, AMRINDER said:
hahaha!! amzing dear.. thanx to u… may god bless u.. i had to do some important editing..
June 04, 2010 at 5:41 pm, Mr President said:
Thaks a lot seamaonkey420. Very usefull
November 06, 2010 at 9:19 pm, Jako said:
thank you man a billiom zillion times .
you saved my life
November 07, 2010 at 12:55 pm, anne said:
thanks a lot it worked
February 20, 2011 at 2:34 am, Henry Lau said:
It works very well.
February 28, 2011 at 12:08 pm, Danish Alam said:
its very simple as i does
right click on pps -new-office button-save as-select location and type
March 03, 2011 at 12:54 am, mary c.p. said:
hahaha love it!. I have done this with images and pdfs, but never tried with PPT. This is sweet! Thanks for the tip