Why Won'T My Powerpoint Load A Palette .Thmx File Professional Technology Support

Why Won'T My Powerpoint Load A Palette .Thmx File Professional Technology Support

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A file with the PPTM file extension is a Microsoft PowerPoint Open XML Macro-Enabled Presentation file.

Theyre comprised of pages called slides that hold text, media files like images and videos, graphs, and other things pertinent to a presentation.

Like PowerPoints PPTX format, PPTM files use ZIP and XML to compress and organize the data into a single file.

The difference between the two is that PPTM files can execute macros, while PPTX files (though they may contain macros) cannot.

PPTM files let you edit the contents right away after double-clicking the file.

See our List of Executable File Extensions for a listing of file extensions to avoid and why.

PPTM files can be opened and edited with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and newer.

If you have an older version of PowerPoint, you can still open the PPTM file so long as you have the free Microsoft Compatibility Pack installed.

The free WPS Presentation supports PPTM files, too, letting you open and save to the PPTM format.

You can also open (but not edit) PPTM files without PowerPoint using Microsofts free PowerPoint Viewer program.

The following free software can open and edit PPTM files as well, but they make you save the file to a different format (not back to.PPTM): OpenOffice Impress, LibreOffice Impress, and SoftMaker FreeOffice Presentations.

If you just want the images, audio, and video content from the PPTM file but you dont have a PPTM reader or editor installed, you can open the file as an archive with 7-Zip.

If you find that an application on your PC does try to open the PPTM file but its the wrong application or if you would rather have another installed program open PPTM files, see our How to Change the Default Program for a Specific File Extension guide for making that change in Windows.

The easiest way to convert a PPTM file is to use one of the PPTM viewerseditors from above.

Once the PPTM file is open in the program, you can save it to another format like PPTX, PPT, JPG, PNG, PDF, and many other formats.

To convert PPTM to an MP4 or WMV video, use PowerPoints File Export Create a Video menu.

You could instead use a free file converter like FileZigZag (which serves as an online PPTM converter) to convert the PPTM file to a variety of formats, including PDF, ODP, POT, SXI, HTML, and EPS.

The PPTM file extension closely resembles the PTM extension used for MapPoint Map files and PolyTracker Module files.

If your file doesnt work with the presentation software mentioned above, check the file extension again.

If you do have a PTM file, you can open it with MapPoint or Winamp.

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