Advice needed on PowerPoint latest version

ThemeOne

littlerock wrote: »

OK just opened up PP on my pc and went to save a file. If I type "save" as, it defaults to open on the first line of the "save as" tab, which is "PowerPower macro enabled presentation" with the extension .pptm. It does not show any other options, you need to pull down the tab to open it, and then the second option is PowerPoint presentation .pptx

So the first "save as" option given and the only one which appears on the screen until you pull down the tab, is the macro enabled version .pptm.

If my PP wasn't so rusty I might have spotted this. Still I am surprised the first option is not the main .pptx

Are you talking about PowerPoint 2016 here?

Two questions: what is the format set under File / Options / Save?
What happens when you save simply by pressing the F12 key?

littlerock

I am not sure where, if anywhere, as the save command does not display anything, just flashes. I assume it is resaving it over the earlier .pptm version. I did a search on the file name and could find nothing with the extension .pptx. Using F12 saves it as .pptm.

I suppose to get a correct test I will need to create a new file altogether and see how it saves that.

Le_Kirk

Once you have saved a file with a particular extension (not restricted to PowerPoint), pressing save or F12 will just save it as previously saved. To see the options you will need to click Save As or, as you say create a new file and hit Save and system will ask you where and how you would like it saved.

I_have_spoken

.pptx is the default for a new presentation in PowerPoint 2016

bob_a_builder

.pptx is the default for a new presentation in PowerPoint 2016

It is !
And I just tested (on 2016) embedding a video in a presentation and that didn't prompt PowerPoint to change the file type from .pptx either

So either OPs ppt setup has had the default changed in the Options , Save section where there is a drop down to select other default file types, only 5 available , one of them being .pptm
or something else used/inserted in the presentation has triggered the change to .pptm

Options Save screen

littlerock

Well I have had another look and while the .pptx option is top of the pulldown list, and .pptm second, if I just type save as and accept the default, it brings up .pptm as the default.

I therefore changed the .pptm option to save as .pptx and then closed and opened it to save as again. Once more it displayed the .pptm option as the default.

So far as I am aware they are just slides nothing more. What sort of thing might it mistake for a macro? I have never saved a macro.

Le_Kirk

Where do you type "Save As?" The test would be if you changed the Save option to default to PowerPoint presentation i.e. .pptx then create a new presentation (one slide with some text on it will do) and then Click File, Save (or click on the Save icon if you have set up the ribbon) it should try to save to your default location with a .pptx extension. If you use Save As it will try to save as the previously saved presentation which was (for whatever reason) a .pptm.

littlerock

If I just type "save" at present, it defaults to the .pptm format. To change the format it saves in, I have to use the "save as" option and chose the format I want. So I changed it to "save as" .pptx format. Then I tried to just "save" the first slide again, as a new file and it still reverted to .pptm as the default, even though this is the second of the format options on the list. Somehow I have made this the default I have no idea how.

(I have a similar issue in reverse with Word. I prefer to save my documents as .doc but it always defaults to .docx on a plan "save". So I "save as" .doc. )

Back to Powerpoint, I can only assume that my file (of images) somehow contains a macro but how or where I have no idea. Anyone know what might qualify as one, given I have only saved images?.