had problems with opening a powerpoint presenation as it was saved as extention "presentation". can open the attachment but if you save as with file type "presentation" it does not open again, but if you save to disk and the file extension is .ppt if opens fine next time round. - am now aware of this and working ok but I want to find a permanet fix. can you please advice me of a resolution to this problem.
.POT file extensions are used for PowerPoint templates.
.PPT for PowerPoint presentations.
.PPS for PowerPoint slideshows (PowerPoint presentations which luanch autmatically)
.POTM for Macro enabled PowerPoint templates
.PPTM for Macro enabled PowerPoint presentations
as well as the newer file variations for Office 2007, such as .POTX and .PPTX
When you install Microsoft PowerPoint on your machine, PowerPoint instructs your operating system to associate files with these file extensions to open in PowerPoint.
When a PowerPoint file is not named with one of these extensions your operating system searches to find the application associated with the file extension to open the suitable application. Since there is no application which opens the file extension "presentation" your operating system is unable to open the presentation in the application which it should correctly open in. In this case Microsoft PowerPoint.
Problems such as these occur when users rename the file extension of the file to something they think the file is or that makes it easier to remember. But this is in effect what the filename is for not the fiel extension HP.
When you try to open the PowerPoint presentation with the file extension "presentation" directly from outlook, or any other application then your operating system will not be able to open the presentation, in effect it simply does not know what type of file it is.
It opens when you save it with the correct file extension (ppt) because then your operating system is able to look at the file read the file extension, see that it is a PowerPoint file and then open PowerPoint to execute it.
In short HP, never rename the file extensions of your files. Or if you are receiving files from for example Apple Macintosh, which is a different operating system and does not depend upon the file extension then always rename the file extension to ppt to ensure that the file will open on your operating system first time and everytime in PowerPoint.
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problems opening extention "presentation"
Posted - 28/03/2008 : 17:55:30
