.PPS File

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

The pps files are used for complete slide shows, which are very often used for presentations. The pps files may include formatted text, bullet points, images, movies, sound effects, or music.

They are often built from one of many templates included with the Microsoft Office PowerPoint software, but may also be created from scratch.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and later saves presentations in the OpenXML format instead and is using the PPSX file extension.

MIME types:
application/mspowerpoint
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

Files with pps extension are presentations from Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software. PowerPoint's PPS slide shows are basically sequences of screens, often used for presentation purposes.   

How to open:

The pps file can be opened and edited in native application Microsoft PowerPoint, that is part of Microsoft Office Suite.The pps file can be open by another applications such as OpenOffice.org, StarrOffice or Ashampoo Office.Microsoft developed free viewer of PowerPoint *.pps presentations, that is called PowerPoint Viewer.

How to convert:

Microsoft PowerPoint can save .pps files to another document formats such as OpenDocument, PDF or XPS. Other office suites, that can open .pps PowerPoint file (OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Ashampoo Office), can save PPS file to another document format.