Opening a File

You can open a PowerPoint/Word template, an ordinary PowerPoint presentation or Word document, or an Excel template/workbook. See System requirements for the exact list of supported extensions.

Ways to open a file

• Browse: click the ellipsis (…) button next to the file path box in the left panel, and pick a file.
• Drag and drop: drag a single supported file onto the left panel. Dropping a .ksstyle file instead imports it as a style into the file that's already open - see Portable style files (.ksstyle).
• Recent files: click the clock icon next to Browse to open a flyout listing your 10 most-recently-opened files, most recent first. Selecting one opens it the same way Browse does.
  A file that's been moved or deleted is removed from the list automatically when you try to open it, with an inline message explaining why.

Working with templates vs. documents vs. Excel files

• PowerPoint (.potx/.potm templates or .pptx/.pptm presentations) and Word (.dotx/.dotm templates or .docx/.docm documents) both open identically either way. For Word you can set more properties than for PowerPoint, see PowerPoint specific notes.
• Excel files (.xltx/.xltm templates or .xlsx/.xlsm workbooks) open too, but the center editing panel is replaced with an explanation - Excel table styles are imported here, not designed here. See Table styles in Excel.

Why edit an already-distributed document, not just a template?

Editing a table style in a template does not retroactively update documents that were already created from that template - a document's table styles are usually a one-time copy, frozen at creation. That's exactly why this app also opens ordinary presentations and documents directly, not just templates: it lets you fix an already-distributed file's table style without having to recreate the whole document from an updated template. If this happens a lot, then there is the import-only edition for end users that lets them import styles in their documents, see Editions explained.