PowerPoint File Recovery

PPT recovery

Presentation files may sometimes behave in an unusual way while you were trying to access it. It may refuse to open or pop up an error messages while accessing PPT file. Do you know actual reason for these error messages? The root cause behind this is corruption of PPT file which leads to unreadable of file and cannot access any slides.

MS PowerPoint is a well known application for creating slides shows to make an impressive presentation in educational as well as business purpose. It is an application that is designed by Microsoft. Salvage of presentation in PPT file format in MS PowerPoint of earlier version like PowerPoint 2003 or before and in PPTX file format in PowerPoint 2007 onward can be done by this application. During saving and opening of PPT file you may come across error messages like “PPT file is corrupted” and unable to open that file.

There are various reasons for corruption of MS PowerPoint file. Some of them are discussed below:

• Viruses such as spyware, adware, malware, Trojan affect file structure of PowerPoint making it inaccessible.
• You may also delete PPT file from computer hard drive by pressing “Shift + Delete” option and later realise that it is an important file. But as you have pressed this option so it willl bypass Recycle Bin and will be permenantly deleted from your system.
• PPT file may also get corrupted due to incorrect installation of MS office and leads to application malfunctioning.
• When you restore deleted presentation files by low quality third party tool, there is a chance of PPT file getting corrupted
• PPT file will not be saved in your system if it is shut down in improper way due to power surges, hardware problem and system crash while you were working on it, hence data loss.
• Repeated conversion of presentation files from one format to other is known as round tripping. The process of round tripping allows user to convert PPT to PPTX format, then to PDF and again back to PPT but damage file structure of PowerPoint file making it unreadable.
• Interruption at the time of downloading presentation files from internet may lead to corruption of PPT file. The interruption can due to any of the reason may be due to power fluctuation, synchronization error, network problem
• Registry policy error is also one reason for corruption of PPT file, If the settings are not properly, then admin may restrict the type of PowerPoint file that can be opened by application and when you try to open that file you may get an error message like “attempt to open a file that is blocked by registry policy setting”

PowerPoint repair tool can be used in all the above scenarios and performs PPT recovery in proper manner. It repairs in such a way that it does not cause any damage to its file structure. With the help of this software you will also be able to fix PPTX, PPS files within a few mouse clicks. It also has potential to repair PPT file on MS PowerPoint 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010. The PPT files refuse to open due to corruption can also be recovered back using this software.

Follow the steps to perform PPT recovery:

Step 1: Download and launch the software. Then run the application, welcome screen appears and then browse for deleted or lost PPT file by clicking "Browse" button. After browsing,, select "Repair" button as shown in Figure A to start repairing process.

Figure A: Repair Loaded File

Step 2: After that, the utility starts repairing process as shown in Figure B.

Figure B: Scanning Progress

Step 3: Then you can preview the recovered PPT file by clicking on "Preview File" option as shown in Figure C.

Figure C: Preview Recovered Files

Step 4: At last select location where you want to save your PPT files and then click on "Save" option as shown in Figure D.

Figure D: Save Recovered Files