Friday, March 16, 2007

Power Point Recovery

PowerPoint presentations are used to educate audience through presentation of words, images, animations, block diagrams in simple steps, which can be easily understood by the target listeners and learners.

MS PowerPoint is the best presentation tool till date and is used worldwide by corporates, instructors, educational institutes, marketing firms, PR professionals to communicate with their audience. But there are always high chances of these presentations being getting corrupt due to virus attacks, unexpected system shutdowns, media corruption or power failures.

The .ppt, .pps, .pot presentation files can get corrupt due to virus attacks, file corruption, software errors, damage in transit, but these files can be repaired with basic built-in features of MS Power Point:


Use of 'Slide from Files' option from the Insert menu:

1. Open a new blank presentation; select the Slides From Files option from the Insert menu.
2. The Slide Finder dialogue box will appear, browse and add your corrupt .ppt file.
3. Click Insert All

Note: If in case the “Insert All” option does not work then select the individual slide and click “Insert”.
This method will insert all slides of the .ppt file in the blank presentation.

Open the presentation file in MS Word:

You can recover and repair the corrupt presentation file by opening it in MS Word:

1. Open the MS Word application
2. Click the File menu and select Open
3. The Open dialogue box will appear, click the File Types menu and select RecoverText from Any File.
4. Browse the corrupt presentation file and click Open.

The repaired file in word will lose all its formatting, a little extra manual effort will have to be applied on to get the original formatting. Save the repaired file and with the help of Send To option in the File menu open it with MS PowerPoint.

Move the file to different place :

If you are opening a .ppt file on any removable storage device (floppy disk, USB drive, CD-ROM etc.) then first copy it to your hard disk and then try to access it.

If the presentation file is not accessible then copy it to another drive of your computer system and then try to open it. For example, if the file is saved in C drive then copy or cut and paste it to D drive.

Try accessing the file on different computer system
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Open the file on another computer system. If it still does not work there then you can try power point file repair software to recover data, images, and animations from the corrupt presentation file.

Kernel Recovery for Power Point repairs and recovers data from the corrupt power point presentation files. The powerpoint file recovery software recovers deleted slides, master slides, animations, word art, basic shapes and connectors, objects and sound files.