PPS opens as PPT?

[Tom Jablonowski]

I've got a link to a PowerPoint slide show, a PPS file. When I mouse-over the
link, it shows that it's a .PPS file, but when I click on it, a dialog box
asks if I want to run or save the .PPT file. If I click Open, it'll run the
..PPS slide show, but if I click save, it saves it as .PPT.
The file on the web site is definitely a .PPS file.
Why wouldn't it consistently show .PPS?????
Thanks,
tom

 

[Andrew Murray]

What's the difference? PPT is a Powerpoint file.....

 

[p c]

That behavior depends on the file extension associations options for
your windows PC. Either "you" changed them, or at one time you clicked
Yes to a suggested option for a dialog. You can change them "back" from
the Folder Options.

...PC

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage]]

It's because .pps has not been configured as a mime type on the web server:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q326736

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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
Spider Web Woman Designs
web: http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/

 

[Tom Jablonowski]

Kathleen,
Thanks for the reply. Since we use an outside host (NTT Verio), is this
something they'd need to do? If so, I'm surprised that it wouldn't already be
set up that way.
tom

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

According to the article, it says on the IIS web server.

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage]]

Yes, your hosting company would need to do this. If you really want your
visitors to only get the .pps you could zip it and put a link to the zip
file on your site.

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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
Spider Web Woman Designs
web: http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/