Opening pps attachments

I received a pps attachment in email. I'm not able to open it. I have iWork software is this not sufficient? Any advice is welcome please.

Almost doesn't mean all. iWork will open standard Office files, but the .pps extension is not a standard filetype recognized by Macs. Hence the need to change the extension to .ppt.
You simply change the filename to replace .pps with .ppt. I assume you know how to change or edit a filename. If I'm wrong let me know.
As an alternative try opening the file from within Keynote by selecting the file via the Open option in the File menu.

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When I get a Power Point attachment, it opens in Keynote, and has no sound. I get the working version, not the finished product. How do I change it to open in Power Point, or at least get sound on Keynote?

I can't answer the part about no sound, because I just made a PP (.pptx) with sound, and when I opened it with KN, the sound worked fine. So my guess is that the attachment you've been sent has been sent without the sound file. To be able to play a PP doc which includes media (audio, video) on any computer other than the one on which it was created, whether Mac or Windows, whether opened with PP or KN, it must be saved as a package (which is a folder containing the PP doc plus the media file), and the whole package must be moved (whether by email or memory stick) to the new computer. The same thing is true with KN docs, BTW.
Moving on: If, on a Mac, you're clicking on a PP doc but it opens in KN, that's probably because you don't have PP installed. Is that the case? If you don't have PP, but want to view a PP doc in PP, or, in any case, not in KN: there used to be a Microsoft app "PowerPoint Viewer for Mac", but that doesn't work with OS X, and there's no update. If you don't want to buy PP, I believe NeoOffice, which is free, will open PP docs, and even allow you to work on them. Obviously, buying PP (MS Office) is the surest, but most expensive solution.
Now then: If you do have PP on your Mac, but your PP docs nevertheless open in KN, it sounds as if the default app for opening PP's has been reset wrong. Correct this by: "Get info" on that file; halfway down the window which opens is an "Open with:" drop-down, where you can set the default app back to PP, and click below that to apply this change to all files like this.
Just out of curiosity: what do you mean by "working version, not the finished product"? Is the difference only the missing sound, or is there more to it than that?
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Since switching to DSL from modem I can't open .pps attachments. When I try I get the message "Cannot find the application program that created the document named...". I never have had this problem before. Don't know if it's my computer or the DSL...how can I get the application program back?

There are two ways to open .pps files on a Mac. If you have M$ Office, it includes the PowerPoint application. If you don't have Office, you can use the freeware PowerPoint 98 Viewer for Macintosh
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e25cb1e5-209c-4a58-b283 -23e84b616477&DisplayLang=en
If you have either of the two above apps, open the app and then select the .pps file. The file should then open.
 Cheers, Tom

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