Corrupt PowerPoint Presentation Recovery

PowerPoint presentations are used to educate the 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.

There are รขโ�ฌห�nรขโ�ฌโ�ข number of reasons due to which a presentation file (.ppt, .pps, .pot) can get corrupted and similarly there are several ways to recover back the corrupted.

Whenever you receive a power point file, first perform a check;

Is the file password protected? รขโ�ฌโ�� The file might be secured by a password. In this case try to know password of the file and open it in its respective version of MS PowerPoint.

Is the file received as an email attachment? - If you have received the presentation file as an email attachment, then chances are that it might have been corrupted as the file traveled through cyberspace. In this case you can ask sender of the file to resend the file as a zipped attachment by WinZip or any other compression utility.

You might be using a new version of power point (2003) to access a presentation file created on older version of power point (2002). In this case you have to install the respective version of MS PowerPoint in which the file was originally created.

Some of the solutions and measures which are inbuilt in MS PowerPoint prove beneficial to recover data from the corrupt power point presentation files, which are:

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".

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 of Types menu and select Recover Text 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.

Try a Third Party Recovery Utility

If all of the above-mentioned solutions donรขโ�ฌโ�ขt prove beneficial in your case of file corruption, then you can take help of the third party recovery solution to recover and repair the damaged/corrupt presentation file. There are many recovery solutions which exist in the data recovery market, but not every recovery tool can provide the complete recovery possibilities in case of deleted slides, master slides, images, animations, sound effects and other corruptions of power point damages.

Kernel Recovery for PowerPoint is such a file repair tool which effectively repairs the corrupt presentation (.ppt, .pps, .pot) and recovers the deleted slides, image objects, text, animation effects, sound effects, auto shapes (basic shapes, block arrows, callouts, flow charts, stars-banners, action buttons, lines and connectors), tables, embedded OLE files, wave sound files, excel files, word files and word art images.

The Kernel PowerPoint Recovery tool outwits other power point file repairing tools by even restoring the animated, media player sound effects which were not easy to recover before. The software is equipped with two modes of recovery viz, Standard mode and Integrated mode. Standard Mode recovers major corrupted presentation files with the complete data whereas Integrated Mode is fast and is useful in the case of minor corruptions which retains formatting.

The Demo version of Kernel PowerPoint recovery software is available for FREE download. You can test and evaluate the features and functionalities of the software. After being satisfied with the recovery results in your case you can purchase the Kernel PowerPoint repair software.

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