.PPA File

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

The ppa files are used for PowerPoint Add-ins. PowerPoint 2000/2002 support additional add-in types which have extension DLL or EXE. A special type of an add-in are the Wizard add-ins which have pwz file extension.

Structurally they are exactly identical to the ppa file except for the fact that the extensions are different.

There are two types; the standard add-in which can be compiled within PowerPoint having the extension PPA/PWZ and COM Add-ins which are supported PowerPoint 2000 onwards and require either the Microsoft Office Developer or development products from the Visual Studio Suite of applications to create them.

MIME types:
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

A ppa file extension is related to the Microsoft PowerPoint, a tool for creating presentations and used for its add-in files.

How to open:

Use Microsoft Visual Studio to work with *.ppa files.

How to convert:

As far as we know, this .ppa file type can't be converted to any other file format. This is usually the case of system, configuration, temporary, or data files containing data exclusive to only one software and used for its own purposes. Also some proprietary or closed file formats cannot be converted to more common file types in order to protect the intellectual property of the developer, which is for example the case of some DRM-protected multimedia files.