[RESOLVED] ? about Powerpoint and Adobe

[Sal_gal]

Hi all -- hopefully there's someone on board who knows why Powerpoint opens in Adobe.
I click the PPTX (2007) open and it opens in Adobe 9 reader.
"Adobe Reader could nto open PPT because it is either not a supported file type...."

I also have Camtasia installed. Wondering if those two programs are messing up the PPT?

[jdc2000]

The file association for the .pptx (and possibly the .ppt) file extensions is pointing to the probably wrong program. Camtasia should not have caused this. Someone with Office 2007 should be able to post the correct info to change the association back to.

[Sal_gal]

The file association for the .pptx (and possibly the .ppt) file extensions is pointing to the probably wrong program. Camtasia should not have caused this. Someone with Office 2007 should be able to post the correct info to change the association back to.

Microsoft.com had the answer (thanks!)
To change which program starts when you double-click a file, follow these steps:

1. Open Windows Explorer by right-clicking the Start button, and then click Explore.
2. Click a folder that contains a file of the type that you want Windows to open in a program that you select.
3. Right-click the file and, depending on the programs installed on your computer, complete one of the following steps:
* Click Open With to choose the program that you want.
* Point to Open With, and then click Choose Program to choose the program that you want.
4. The Open With dialog box is displayed. Use one of the following methods to select the program that you want to use for this file type:
* In the Programs list, click the program that you want to use.
* Click Browse, locate and then click the program that you want to use, and then click Open.
* Click Look for the appropriate program on the Web to browse the Internet for the program that you want to use.
5. Click to select the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box if it is not selected.
6. Click OK.

I'm using Vista, that may have something to do with why it doesn't open in PPT. When choosing the default program, I had to choose XML converter.

[Steve R Jones]

You MUST have MS Office and or the free Power Point viewer to view power point files

[SpywareDr]

Microsoft's "PowerPoint Viewer 2007"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[Sal_gal]

Microsoft's "PowerPoint Viewer 2007"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Thanks all.

[SpywareDr]

You're welcome.