Links to *.ppsx and *.pptx on Web won't open

[Arlene]

I posted some PowerPoint shows on the web and when I click the links to the
ppsx and *.pptx files, I get a prompt to open or save the file and then it
looks like I need to use a zip program to unzip files. I thought these would
open automatically. What am I doing wrong? The page with the links is
http://gdpkeyboarding.com/test.htm. Thanks in advance.

Arlene

 

[Arlene]

Wow! The mystery is that it just started happening. I have links on other
pages that work fine so I don't think it's the site. See my links on this
page: http://gdpkeyboarding.com/Methodology.htm Any other ideas?

 

[John Wilson]

Hi Arlene

Are the links on this site pptx files? (They look like ppt files)
--
Amazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials

http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk
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email john AT technologytrish.co.uk

 

[Arlene]

They are indeed ppt files. I saved the presentation again as ppt and it opens
fine, so evidently this is a PP07 issue. Please see
http://gdpkeyboarding.com/test.htm again.

 

[Arlene]

I saved the presentation again as ppt and it opens fine, so evidently this is
a PP07 issue. Please see http://gdpkeyboarding.com/test.htm again.

 

[Arlene]

Steve--I was reading your article "Put your PowerPoint-generated HTML on the
web" and you mention long file names being an issue. This is a very long file
name. Do you think that might be causing issues with PP07?

Arlene

 

[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

Hi Arlene

I think it's IE7 as Firefox recognises them as pptx & ppsx files. I don't
have any other browsers installed to test. Maybe pop over to the IE group and
ask there?
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...613-dfee-4b99-9378-839a15bef262&lang=en&cr=US
I had a quick search but couldn't find anything so post a new thread

Let us know how you get on as I think we are all curious...

Lucy

 

[Arlene]

OK--I posted a question there and will let you know.

 

[Arlene]

I saved it as a pps file and posted it on my Test page. It still opens
PowerPoint. Maybe I've just saved this file too many times. Are there any
rules about that? Should you always open a PP file in a certain format (such
as ppt or pptx) and then save to other formats like html, pdf, pps, etc.?

 

[Arlene]

WOW! Thank you for that clarification. But bottom line is the *.pps version
is opening PowerPoint, but not in slide show mode--they open in normal mode
with the Slides and Outline tabs on the left and the active slide on the
right. I can't test the ppsx version because it goes into the Zip mode. Isn't
a pps version supposed to open PowerPoint but go directly to the slide show?
Thank you for your patience. I hate to sound dense but many issues are
preventing me from figuring this out very easily.

Arlene

 

[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

:

To follow up on this:

I downloaded your PPTX file and posted it temporarily to my own web site.
As it happens, my site and yours both run under Sun OS and Apache web server.
The result was pretty much the same at this end ... MSIE wants to download the PPTX
as a ZIP file.

I emailed the ISP and asked them to change the media type/MIME config on the web
server to reflect the new extensions for Office 2007; as soon as I heard back that
the fix was in place, I went back to the same link and voila, it offers me the
choice of downloading as PPTX or opening (and if I choose Open, it opens into
PowerPoint.)

So again, it's a web server issue.

Hi Steve

Would you mind answering a bit of a blonde question for me? Why did it work
fine with Firefox?

Lucy

 

[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

Thanks Mr Knowledge

Still seems odd to me that microsoft's own browser can't recognise the pptx
isn't a zip (or rather is a particular kind of zip), but firefox can. But
then many things seem odd to me.

Lucy