How to Repair Broken PowerPoint Files?
Microsoft PowerPoint is a full-featured presentation program. It’s a part of Microsoft Office suite as well as can be purchased separately. A PowerPoint presentation consists of number of slides related to a particular topic which may be useful later while discussing on that topic. From those presentation slides handouts, outlines or speakers notes can be prepared. PPT contains various graphic tools using which pictures and graphs can be imported. Its recent versions are Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2011 from Macintosh and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 for Windows OS. Its Macintosh version is almost similar in function with its Windows version. Presentation created in either of the platforms can be used in the other without any conversion. Just imagine that you are stuck in a situation where your important PPT file got damaged when you’re about to present it in important business meeting. In that case you need to use a PPT Repair Tool to fix broken PowerPoint file. But before that you need to find out the exact reason behind your PPT file corruption.
Most Frequent Cause of PPT Corruption:
- Operating System Corruption: At times you make changes in any system files or install / uninstall any program in the operating system the registry and structure of the operating system changes. If anything goes wrong in this case then the operating system may gets corrupted. But you can still avoid this problem by clicking on “System Restore”. But sometimes this also fails. As a result of this all the data stored in the operating system including your PPT files gets corrupted and become inaccessible.
- Improper System Shut Down: When a computer is forcibly / improperly shut down when the PPT application is still working or not terminated properly then there is a chance of PPT file corruption. Improper shut down also affects the “System Restore” process badly. When a system is turned off during a restoring process the system may restore only some of the PPT files leading to file corruption.
- Apart from the above reasons, some other reasons like fluctuation in power supply, defragmentation failure, sudden system reboot, Virus attack, sharing of a PPT file over a network can both damage the PPT file and causes data inaccessiblity as well. Any error occurred while downloading the PPT file from email can also corrupt that PPT file.
To avoid data loss from any of the above reason you need to take care of some precautions mentioned below:
- Terminate the PPT application properly before shutting down the system so that it’ll not affect your PPT files in anyway.
- Carry out the installation / un-installation process of any program properly so that it’ll not affect any of the PPT files saved in the operating system. If any problem occurs then try to restore the system properly to avoid further data loss.
To repair all your broken or damaged PPT files you need efficient PPT Repair software. This software can fix all types of broken/corrupted PPT, PPTX and PPS files. You can perform PPT Repair on PowerPoint 2003 as well as on Power Point 2007 effectively using this software. It can fix corrupt PPT file of MS Office 2007 with the aid of this powerful Microsoft PowerPoint repair utility. It even executes PPT repair on PowerPoint 2010 which is the latest version of Microsoft Office Power Point for Windows. PPT files along with their text, formatting, animation, graphics, OLE objects, hyperlinks including actual presentation header and footer are restored. This software also supports PPT file repairing on Windows 7(both 32-bits and 64-bits).
Requirements: Windows 7/XP/Vista Microsoft Office 2000 or above must be installed on the host computer
Steps to repair broken PowerPoint file:
Step 1: Download, install and launch the software. On main window select "Browse" and look for the damaged PPT / PPTX / PPS files in your computer. When you find the damaged presentation press "Repair" button to start the process as shown in Fig A
Fig A: Repair File
Step 2: The software starts profound scanning of damaged PowerPoint file as shown in Fig B
Fig B: File Scanning
Requirements: Windows 7/XP/Vista Microsoft Office 2000 or above must be installed on the host computer
Step 3: Click on "Preview File" to preview the repaired presentation as shown in Fig C
Fig D: Repaired File Preview
Step 4: If you are happy with the recovery result, you can save the new PowerPoint file on your computer. Choose destination Location and click "Save" as shown below in Fig D
Fig D: Save Files
Requirements: Windows 7/XP/Vista Microsoft Office 2000 or above must be installed on the host computer