A question about Microsoft Office PowerPoint Veiwer 2007- please help!

Asked by atarah09 (254

) September 20th, 2011

I am working on my slideshow presentation; I saved my progress so that I could step away for a few moments. I am not trying to edit what’s already been saved, but I don’t think it will allow me to do so. I worked really hard on this, please tell me there is a way for me to edit what’s already been saved! If so, please give step by step instructions so that I can continue working on it.

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I am unsure of what the issue is you are having. Can you open the file? Does it show the last saved data?

blueiiznh (16698

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This should be possible. If you are in slide show mode, press the Esc key to get back to edit mode. I am assuming you have the full version of the software not just the viewer since you were editing before. If you could describe a bit more that might help diagnose the problem.

Stinley (11525

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The “Viewer” doesn’t allow you to edit. That’s why it’s just a “viewer”.

In earlier versions of PowerPoint (and I presume this is still the case in newer versions) if you Save As a “Presentation”, then it has a .PPS extension on the file and it opens in “Show” mode. If you save it as a .PPT (which is still the default, I believe), then it’s an editable file.

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