When I open any file with ppt extension it opens impress in editing mode. When I open same file with pps extension in opens in presentation mode. Is it possible to disable this behavior, I only want to open in editing mode, never in presentation mode. Thanks.
Edit: I dont want to rename files. I want it to open pps file in editing mode.
Regarding your “Answer”: Just to mention, that .pps is designed solely to AutoPlay presentations. Technically there is no difference between .pps and .ppt. Anyway, see answer below …
Hello,
though the simplest way would be to change the extension from .pps to .ppt the following worked for me:
Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> AdvancedOpen Expert Configuration
MS_Powerpoint_97_AutoPlay and click the Search buttonPreferredFilter from MS PowerPoint 97 AutoPlay to MS PowerPoint 97 (remove the word AutoPlay; edit using double click on the entry)OK
Tested using LibreOffice:
Version: 6.4.4.2, Build ID: 3d775be2011f3886db32dfd395a6a6d1ca2630ff
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf5;
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US, Calc: threaded
Hope that helps.
It did not work at first, In that dialog I had to change property Extensions []string to pps1 and it works now. Thank you.
This method no longer works. So on linux I used this method to prevent autoplay. As root I copied /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash to /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash-original and created new executable bash script /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash where I check if it is pps/ppsx/ppt/pptx extension. If so I use headless libreoffice to convert it to PDF:
libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf “$2”
and then simply open the pdf in browser. If it is not pps I run oosplash-original with all parameters.
Did not work indeed. I then turned “false” all properties “Preferred” found by searching for “autoplay”, and it worked.