When I open a *.pps document, its starts automatically in slide show mode, and I can't edit it. If I press "escape" or right-click and choose "End show", then the file gets closed. If I change the exension to ".ppt", then Presentation doesn't start automatically in slide show and I can edit it. This bug had been described for OpenOffice.org 3 there: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61554
Created attachment 50218 [details] PPS document, cannot enter edit mode Confirmed on LibreOffice 3.4 340m1(Build:103) for OpenSuse Linux. I have had this problem as well, after I accidentally saved a file under .pps. It can be very frustrating. So the first time you save it (under save as) the file is ok. You have access to edit mode in impress while under the name of .pps. But after you close the document and try to open the .pps file again, you will automatically enter view presentation mode. Try on the attached document. Thanks.
[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.4.2 - WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO340m1 (Build:203)]" That's the suchness of a .pps: It starts immediately with the presentation. It was a bug in OOo (Issue#52755 - .pps files should open in presentation mode as with PowerPoint) that presentation did not start immediately. A separate "Impress Runner extension" is required for OOo. The issue still is unfixed for OOo, so With OOo 3.3.1 and OOo 3.3 I (only) can open Jeffrey's sample in edit mode and have to start it manually. It seems we have (at least) 2 problems here. a) I can not stop .pps reaching edit mode directly from slide show. When I create a single slide Presentation.ppt with LibO and rename it to Presentation.pps (in WIN Explorer, it will autostart in LibO as expected, and I can stop it with <esc> or <-> as expected, and the slide show will not only stop, but also the document will be closed. That might be intended. It's not a problem, I simply have to rename the document back to Presentation.ppt and that can be edited. That rename trick also works with a Presentation.ods saved as Presentation.pps. Renaming works, Presentation.ppt can be edited with LibO. That rename trick also works with a Presentation.ppt (created with LibO saved as Presentation.pps. Renaming works, Presentation.ppt can be edited with LibO. But a backdoor to get the edit mode directly would be nice. I do not know whether that is possible with Powerpoint. b) With Jeffrey's sample document the rename trick does NOT work, 67.ppt will still start automatically the slide show. Here we should limit investigations to problem "b", please see modified Subject. For the missing "backdoor" I will submit a separate enhancement request. @Jeffrey: Any idea concerning that problem "b"? Can you reproduce my observations concerning renaming?
Strange! I wanted to create a test kit with some documents to reproduce my results from Comment 2, and now I can nno longer open my documents renamed from .ppt to .pps and back to .ppt. That might be the result from having running parallel some OOo and LibO instances, I sometimes observe interferences. I will have to do some further investigation later after PC reboot
New attempt with "LibreOffice 3.4.3 RC1 - WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO340m1 (Build:301)]" 1. Created and saved mytest343.odp and closed from LibO file dialog: opens in edit mode dobuleclick WIN Exp.: opens in edit mode 2. Saved from LibO as mytest343.ppt and closed from LibO file dialog: opens in edit mode rightclick WIN Exp.: opens in presentatioon Mode, IMHO that's wrong 3. Saved mytest343.ppt from LibO as mytest343.pps and closed from LibO file dialog: opens in presentation mode rightclick WIN Exp.: opens in presentation mode 4. Rename mytest343.pps in Win Explorer to mytest343 - Kopie.ppt from LibO file dialog: opens in presentation mode, IMHO that's wrong rightclick WIN Exp.: opens in presentation mode, IMHO that's wrong 10. closed all documents 12. Tried again to open mytest343.ppt from LibO file dialog: opens in presentation mode, IMHO that's wrong rightclick WIN Exp.: opens in presentation mode, IMHO that's wrong Compare with result from step 2! 20. Exit LibO, try mytest343.ppt rightclick WIN Exp.: opens in presentation mode, IMHO that's wrong Exiting exits LibO - Start to LibO Start Center 22. open mytest343.ppt from LibO file dialog: opens in presentation mode, IMHO that's wrong That's terrible, since step 4 my LibO lost ability to edit .ppt, so -> Major I did not try whether reboot helps. Until a confirmation of that effect I hesitate to modify Subject line due to my latest results.
Created attachment 50366 [details] Test kit, see Comment 4 @Radek: Please feel free to reassign (or reset Assignee to default) if it’s not your area or if provided information is not sufficient. Please set Status to ASSIGNED if you accept this Bug.
Since all new unconfirmed bugs start in state UNCONFIRMED now and old unconfirmed bugs were moved to NEEDINFO with a explanatory comment, all bugs promoted above those bug states to NEW and later are automatically confirmed making the CONFIRMED whiteboard status redundant. Thus it will be removed.
After renaming a ppsx to pptx I was able to get it to open in edit mode by 1. unzipping 2. editing [Content_Types].xml to replace application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow.main+xml with application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation.main+xml 3. re-zipping
This bug has not been touched by for a long time. Just confirming, is this bug still ASSIGNED?
The problem is the same as in Bug 45233, so I mark this as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 45233 ***