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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / January 2006OTP Computer Expert Needed
I get emails with attachments, some are Power Point and some are not, that when I try to open them I am asked if I want to open them or not. I click on yes and then I got a notice that says. "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel." I have Windows XL and have "Power Point viewer 2003." My DIL says she has only ever seen Power Point listed on the programs without "Viewer" on it. Does that make any difference on Power Point? Any help will be very much appreciated. Gwen > I get emails with attachments, some are Power Point and some are not, that > when I try to open them I am asked if I want to open them or not. I click [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Any help will be very much appreciated. PowerPoint Viewer is a program designed to do exactly what it says, let you view PP presentations without being able to edit them in any way. I think it's free, but PowerPoint, as part of Microsoft Office, can be rather expensive (if you don't qualify for the educational price).  SignatureAF "Non Sequitur U has a really, really lousy debate team." --artyw raises the bar on rec.sport.baseball I'm not much of an expert, but I'll try. Open any explorer window (eg-My Documents) and click View>Folder Options and File Type. In the window which opens all your file types will be listed, scroll down to pps. or ppt. and if they are not associated with PowerPoint viewer you can click change and chose PP from the list. Hope that helps. Cooly > I get emails with attachments, some are Power Point and some are not, that > when I try to open them I am asked if I want to open them or not. I click [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Gwen Thanks Cooly, I'll try that and see what happens. Gwen > I'm not much of an expert, but I'll try. Open any explorer window (eg-My > Documents) and click View>Folder Options and File Type. In the window [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >> Gwen > I get emails with attachments, some are Power Point and some are not, that > when I try to open them I am asked if I want to open them or not. I click [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Gwen There's a new virus going around that looks like a powerpoint to people that haven't altered their default windows settings to show file extensions for known file types. Are you SURE what you're opening is actually a powerpoint file, and not this virus? Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ Ari, I have gotten these from my cousins and also some that are not Power Point. The ones I've tried to open I am pretty sure are really Power Point. Gwen >> I get emails with attachments, some are Power Point and some are not, >> that when I try to open them I am asked if I want to open them or not. I [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > extensions for known file types. Are you SURE what you're opening is > actually a powerpoint file, and not this virus? > Ari, I have gotten these from my cousins and also some that are not Power > Point. The ones I've tried to open I am pretty sure are really Power Point. > Gwen The only virus my wife ever got on her computer was from her sister. family-photo.jpg which was, in reality, family-photo.jpg.vbs. Please confirm the file type, not just the extension that you see, if you have extensions for known file types turned off as I described previously. If microsoft's software won't open them, OpenOffice.org will, assuming they really are powerpoint files. Ari >>>I get emails with attachments, some are Power Point and some are not, >>>that when I try to open them I am asked if I want to open them or not. I [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>extensions for known file types. Are you SURE what you're opening is >>actually a powerpoint file, and not this virus? Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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