How to enable auto-opening of PowerPoint Slide Shows in Internet Explorer for Macintosh
  
 
*Requires Microsoft PowerPoint to be installed on the Macintosh
 
 
  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. From the menu bar at the top, click "Explorer" ("Edit" for OS 9), then click "Preferences"

 
  1. In the "Internet Explorer Preferences" panel which opens go to “File Helpers”, which is under the "Receiving Files" heading
  2. Click on the "File Helper Settings" side and check for a "PowerPoint Slide Show" entry
  3. If there is an entry, you don't have to do anything else, unless you want to change it
  4. If there is no entry, click the “Add...” button 

 
 
  1. The "Edit File Helper" panel will pop up
  2. Insert the following in the "Representation" section
    1. Description: "Power Point file"
    2. Extension: ".pps"
    3. MIME type: "powerpoint/pps"
  3. Click the "Browse" button beside "Application", in the "File Type" section
    1. use the Finder to point to the Microsoft Powerpoint application
    2. usually the Powerpoint application is located in the folder /Applications/Microsoft Office../
  4. If the "File type" doesn't fill in automatically to "PPSS", use the arrows to the side of the box to select it
  5. The "File creator" should fill in automatically to "PPT3"
  6. for Encoding choose "Binary Data"
  7. For "How to Handle" choose "View with Application" from the drop down box