How Can You Repair a Corrupt PowerPoint File

MS PowerPoint is a great presentation tool from Microsoft. The application is used to prepare and deliver presentations, may it be academic assignments or a business analysis. It allows inclusion of figures and graphs that makes the presentation more user friendly and lively. The application also allows colorful texts, figures and background to make the presentation more appealing. A PowerPoint presentation may get corrupt for variable reasons causing inaccessibility of data stored in the file. If you have an updated backup, you can recover your data from it. But in absence of a proper backup, you need to use a PowerPoint recovery software. The software thoroughly scans for the inaccessible, damaged, or corrupt .ppt file using high ended algorithm to repair the corrupt files.

You may encounter the following symptoms while the PowerPoint file gets corrupt:

Incorrect appearance of embedded pictures
PowerPoint stops responding or it hangs
Text cannot be pasted

After the occurrence of these symptoms, the system communicates with an error message that reads:

“PowerPoint has encountered a problem and needs to close”

After this error message, you cannot access the PowerPoint file anymore. The irony is that the ppt file does not even open so that any further changes can be possible. Opening it in anther location/system also in not possible.

Cause:
Probable reason for the occurrence of the error message are as follows:

Corrupted or damaged PowerPoint registry subkey
Corruption of PowerPoint file due to various factors such as virus, improper system shutdown, power failure, and application malfunction

Resolution:
To resolve the problem discussed above, you have to follow the below listed procedures:

In the Start menu, Click Run
Type regedit in the Open menu and click OK
In the registry editor, click the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\PowerPoint subkey
Click Export on the File menu
Then, delete the subkey
Quit Registry Editor and start PowerPoint

The above listed procedures will solve the problem to a larger extent. But if you still face the same problem, you can use the third-party PowerPoint recovery software to recover the lost and corrupted PowerPoint file.

PowerPoint Recovery software is one such tool that repairs various objects of a PowerPoint presentation such as text, images, and WordArt objects. It repairs all MS PowerPoint presentation files, that is, both .ppt and .pptx. The software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, 2000 and NT.

You can download and use free evaluation version of this Repairs Corrupt PowerPoint presentations software to check the product features, scan damaged ppt files, and preview repairable items. You can then activate the demo version and save data to hard drive, if you are satisfied with the results.

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