What program do I need to open pps files ?

Answer 1

A PPS file is a PowerPoint slide show. To open it, you need either:

1) Microsoft PowerPoint (comes with some editions of Office)

2) PowerPoint Viewer (downloadable for free from Microsoft's website)

3) A third-party program such as Impress in the OpenOffice suite. You can download OpenOffice for free from www.openoffice.org. The download is over 90 megs, so you either need a high-speed connection or plan on ordering it on CD for a nominal fee (generally $10 or less, just enough to cover media and shipping & handling costs).

Answer 2

".PPS" files are M$-Office Power Point files. But, you wouldn't be asking if you had M$-Office:

Try the free, and M$-Office compatible, Open Office instead, from:

Included: Writer (like Word), Calc (Excel), Impress (PowerPoint), Base (Access), Draw (M$-Paint) and Math

Just make sure that if you want others to be able to view the documents using M$-Office Word, for example, save them using "Save as..." in .doc format, instead of the default .odt format.

Or use the built-in PDF creation feature.

Answer 3

You need PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer. Go to Microsoft.com and download the viewer for free.

Answer 4

Microsoft PowerPoint is what it is made with.