If you still have the Office disk, then just reinstall it and the PowerPoint association will be reinstated. On 1 Aug 2011, at 13:33, Martin McCormick wrote:
> This question may actually belong in the techno-chat discussion > since accessibility only comes in because I needed Voiceover to > access the Mac and it was a perfect example of why Apple's > design for accessibility is really useful. > > The Mac in question is an older G5 Imac so upgrading to > Lion is out of the question. My teen-age nephew downloaded two > games to it and my dad began launching "Marble Blast Gold" and > possibly "Yoda Star Wars" every time he wanted to look at some > Powerpoint aviation-related videos. He is, to put it mildly, not amused. > > I went to his house yesterday and he demonstrated the > issue. I had turned VO on and heard "Marble Blast Gold" fire up > when he clicked on one of the Powerpoint videos. > > Job #1. Find that marble maze game and vanquish it. That > was easy. I just opened Macintosh-hd/applications, typed in > Marble in the link chooser menu and it went right to it which > turned out to be a folder. > > I had some trouble moving it to trash but that turned > out to be because Mail, textedit and safari were all running, for > some reason, in the background. After a restart call, I > successfully trashed "Marble Blast Gold" and "Yoda Star Wars." > > Now, here's the part I am not sure of. When Dad clicked > on one of his videos to watch, we no longer had the marble game > but the video failed to launch with a message that boils down to > there was no application that could play .pps files. > > The complaint came from an application called iwork and > my father said he had downloaded a trial copy but didn't want to > buy it so, could I please remove that also? > > I did, but wonder if that was his engine for viewing the > videos? > > So, what do I need to do to restore the ability to play > the Microsoft Powerpoint videos? At one time, they did play > correctly. > > Voiceover has sure come a long way since Tiger, but even > so, things feel mostly familiar and it sure is nice to be able > to just turn it on when needed. > > Dad plans to buy a new Mac as soon as a house he owns > sells so the goal is not to spend any more dough on this one, > but to restore it to proper operation so he can watch several > .pps files. > Thanks, and I can certainly take this to the techno-chat > list if that would be better. > > Martin > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
