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[TwoRails]

I use WordPerfect's office suite and have it's equivalent to Power Point installed. I also have the MS Power Point Viewer installed (long after WordPerfect's install). When I'm viewing files and folders and click on a Power Point file, it opens with Viewer, which is want I want.

I also want a Power Point file to open the the Viewer in emails, too, but they opens up in WordPerfect's editor instead.

Using Outlook Express, not Outlook ....

How do I change this?

TIA

TR

[Force Flow]

Save the file somewhere. Right click > open with > choose a program

Select the program you want it to open with, and tick the box "always open with this program"


That usually sets the file association correctly.

[TwoRails]

No joy -- I had to do that when I installed MS's Viewer, and it works fine when I open the saved file. I went thru the steps again (closing OE first, naturally), to make sure, and OE still opens PPS files with WordPerfect's Presentations Editor.

Any other ideas?

[Force Flow]

Maybe this?

My computer > tools > folder options > "file types" tab. Specify the app to open a specific file extension

[TwoRails]

Hmmm, another post didn't stick. I've had several of them this week.. Yes, I tried that and still no joy. The dialog box advises me that I've already altered that file extension (both PPS and PPT) to open with MS Power Point Viewer from WordPerfect's Presentations. I reset them and tried again: nothing.

I'm game to try anything else

[Force Flow]

ok, if you save the file somewhere and open it, does it open any different than trying to open directly from outlook?

[juppy]

Dunno if this will help you or not, TR, but apparently OE has a problem opening Powerpoint files anyway, whether that Wordperfect software is installed or not. This may be why it's reverting to WP, because that might be the "second choice" if the default PP viewer isn't working in OE. Workaround #2 on this page is *supposed* to have some kind of registry fix for it, but I can't tell ya if it'll work or not because I haven't done it myself.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00657.htm

[TwoRails]

Well, this is not turning out well at all...::

FF: If I save a PPP or PPT file and open it, it opens just fine with MS's Viewer, as expected. If I open an OE PPP or PPT attachment, it opens with Presentations.

Juppy: I tried that fix, but no joy...

I went thru the registry and manually hacked out all the file associations and pointed them to MS Viewer. MS Viewer still works on saved files but OE would no longer open PPP attachments. I reverted to a Restore Point and it was back to "normal."

I found Viewer 2007 and installed that and it worked the same as my registry hacks: saved files work fine, but OE wouldn't open attachments (it reports "no file association" as my hack did).

Another Restore Point and I'm back to the not-working-the-way-I-want "normal."

Still open to ideas...

[juppy]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Juppy: I tried that fix, but no joy...

Well bummer.
I noticed you said you tried PP Viewer 2007 and still no joy.....one of the other pages I saw when looking for that other "attempt" at a solution that I gave, said that PP Viewer 97 is *supposed to* work with OE attachments but that it doesn't have all the features of the newer versions of the Viewer (2003 and 2007). I don't know what "features" that would be, as to whether it's something that's going to cut you out of a lot of the content that the attachments have and need the newer viewer versions for or not. I don't really know why the old version would work when the new ones don't, but I've seen stranger things. Might be worth a shot if you're really wanting this to work inside OE. Most that'll happen is it won't work either and you'll have to reinstall the other viewer and be back to square one again.

[TwoRails]

We Have Joy Here!! Installing Viewer 97 did the trick

To much to do today.... but maybe next weekend I'll get "brave" and try re-installing Viewer 07 and see if that sticks...

I didn't really mind, too much, that attachments opened in Presentations except for two things: some slide shows have sound and Presentations doesn't import them. Also, Presentations is an editor, so every PPP / PPT file needed converted. That's OK, too, for most files but some I get are so huge that even on my quad core, they take minutes to convert.

Thanks you Two for all the help!!!

TR

[juppy]

You know, you mentioned about how Presentations doesn't do the sounds in some of the PP files.....that's the only thing I'm worried about with that Viewer 97 and what was said about it not having all the features of the newer versions. Is something critical like sound going to be a "feature" that it doesn't do? I sure hope not. Good luck on using it and hopefully it'll do a good job for you.

[glc]

PP 97 is all I use here - and nobody has sent me a presentation yet that it can't handle.

[TwoRails]

juppy, thanks. It's not something I use all the time, just for email attachments, so if one or two don't work right, it's OK with me. Heck, I haven't even used Presentations for a long time for it's intended use: building Presentations. I was on a kick for a while to do a "presentation" for distribution with each with my builds, but that wore out pretty quick: just no time.

glc, thanks for the reassurance.