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PPS

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Microsoft PowerPoint 97 to 2003 complete slide show

File type: Document file, Microsoft Office file

Files with pps extension are presentations from Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software. PowerPoint's PPS slide shows are basically sequences of screens, often used for presentation purposes.   

Found 3 different file type records with the same pps filename suffix.

What is pps file?

File type category:
Document file
Microsoft Office file

Date updated: December 20, 2024

File extension pps is associated with Microsoft PowerPoint, a worldwide most popular powerful tool you can use to create and edit dynamic and great-looking presentations.

The pps files are used for complete slide shows, which are very often used for presentations. The pps files may include formatted text, bullet points, images, movies, sound effects, or music.

They are often built from one of many templates included with the Microsoft Office PowerPoint software, but may also be created from scratch.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and later saves presentations in the OpenXML format instead and is using the ppsx.

MIME types:
application/mspowerpoint
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

How to open pps file?

The pps file can be opened and edited in native application Microsoft PowerPoint, that is part of Microsoft Office Suite.

The pps file can be open by another applications such as OpenOffice.org, StarrOffice or Ashampoo Office.

Microsoft developed free viewer of PowerPoint *.pps presentations, that is called PowerPoint Viewer.

How to convert pps file?

Microsoft PowerPoint can save .pps files to another document formats such as OpenDocument, PDF or XPS.

Other office suites, that can open .pps PowerPoint file (OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Ashampoo Office), can save PPS file to another document format.

Suggested software to open pps file:

Associated software actions with the pps file

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Software applications that can edit pps files:

Software capable of saving pps files:

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Software apps that convert pps files:

Software apps that import pps files:

Multiplatform

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Software applications that handle other tasks involving pps files:

Microsoft Windows

Apple macOS / Mac OS X

Multiplatform

Articles about pps files

ArcView processing set codes file

File type category:
GIS, GPS navigation and map file

Date updated: October 27, 2017

The pps file extension is also used in ESRI ArcView (now known as ArcGIS for Desktop Basic) a geographic information system solution.

A *.pps file contains set of processing set codes.

How to open pps file?

The pps extension file is not meant to be opened manually by the user.

How to convert pps file?

It is not convertable file format.

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Associated software actions with the pps file

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Corel PaintShop Photo Pro image

File type category:
Bitmap image file

Date updated: July 14, 2025

The pps file extension is associated with Corel Paint Shop Pro, an advanced photo-editing software, developed and sold by Corel Corporation.

The pps file contains image created with some earlier version of Corel PaintShop Pro.

How to open pps file?

Use Corel PaintShop to open the *.pps files.

How to convert pps file?

Probably can be exported to other formats.

Suggested software to open pps file:

Associated software actions with the pps file

Software applications that can open pps files:

Microsoft Windows

Software applications that can edit pps files:

Microsoft Windows

Software capable of saving pps files:

Microsoft Windows

Software apps that create pps files:

Microsoft Windows

Software apps that print pps files:

Microsoft Windows

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