Comments on: How to make a PowerPoint presentation open in slideshow mode

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:53:28 +0000

@Kimberley I don’t know. I just saved a .pptx file as a .ppsx by Saving As “PowerPoint Show” and it worked fine in Office 2007, opening up in slideshow mode. Just changing the extension didn’t work. I’m guessing it only works in earlier versions of Office.

By: Kimberley

Kimberley — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:27:59 +0000

I have created a slideshow, but even when I save it as a .ppsx, it just opens as a slide, not a slideshow. What am I doing wrong? Please help!!!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:02:13 +0000

What if I’m having the opposite problem- I’m on my laptop and can only open my pp presentations in slideshow. I cannot get to the template in order to edit the presentation. (on my work and home computers it opens first in the editing mode). Any suggestions?

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:33:54 +0000

Does anyone know how to ensure that a presentation opens as a slide show when it is saved in SharePoint? When the file is saved locally it opens as a slide show which is great but as soon as i upload to Sharepoint the file opens as a ppt despite the icon showing as a pps? I need to publish this document but dont want other to be able to edit it and jump from slide to slide. The document has particular hyperlinks to certain parts of the docuemnt so do not want the user to be able to scroll through or see all slides. Help please?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:27:16 +0000

I’m having trouble emailing a presentation that has been saved as a ppsx. When i open the file from windows explorer its opens in a show which is what i want, yet when i send it, my recipient clicks on the attachment and it opens in power point and it is editable. Any suggestion?

By: Erlene

Erlene — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:51:24 +0000

Thank you. The answer was so simple. Yet, it took me an hour of searching on my own before I found your advise.

By: valerie c

valerie c — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:48:40 +0000

I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for over an hour!! I just wanted to go to bed. Now I can. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:27:59 +0000

Hi thank you for the previous info – was excellent, is there a way to attatch a pps, so that when the email is opened it starts playing immediately?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:00:02 +0000

Glad I could help

By: Kaushik Morarji

Kaushik Morarji — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:44:00 +0000

Thank you Dan (comment no.6) saved my life…haha