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Recover data from a corrupt PowerPoint file via simple steps

An error message while trying to open a PowerPoint presentation can be an annoying sight for a user who toiled hard to prepare it.

Author: Ericc

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The facts and figures, accumulated and organized after weeks of work, become inaccessible, leaving an individual stranded. Such a scenario can be witnessed when a PowerPoint file gets corrupted. A PowerPoint file can get corrupted owing to various reasons including unexpected shutdown, virus attacks, application failure and so on. If a user wants to access the lost data after corruption, he has nothing better than a valid backup to fall back upon. However, in the absence of a valid backup, a user has a good chance of recovering critical data using a reliable recover powerpoint software.

As a practical case, when you try and open a PowerPoint presentation, you get the following error message:

“PowerPoint cannot open the type of file represented by filename.ppt.”

The error won't allow you to get hold of the information stored in various slides in the affected presentation.

Cause
The above error message clearly indicates that the ppt file has got corrupted and needs to be repaired.

Resolution
To recover data from a corrupt PowerPoint presentation, you can try your luck by employing following troubleshooting techniques:

Open a blank presentation, go to Insert menu and click 'Slides from Files'. Browse to the corrupt file and click 'Insert All'
In order to recover at least part of your text, you can go to MS Word. On the 'File' menu, click 'Open.' In the 'Open' box, click 'Files of Type' box and then click 'Recover Text From Any File'
Move the file to a different place by copying the file to a different computer's hard drive or copying the file to a different drive on your computer
Open the file in a different way by using one of the PowerPoint viewers
Try opening PowerPoint in safe mode and check if it enables you to open the file
Try a third-party ppt repair utility if none of the above steps provide any respite

These ppt recovery software repair logically corrupted ppt files by applying improved scanning algorithms.

About Author

I am Eric Justice, professional author writes articles for Software handing issues such as file corruption, application malfunction and provides informations regarding best recovery softwares for powerpoint recovery. Get more details on http://www.powerpoint-recovery.com

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Recover data from a corrupt PowerPoint file via simple steps