How to Repair PowerPoint for Free
Microsoft Office users have access to a program called PowerPoint that allows them to create quality presentations. This program also lets you modify and show your presentations in the form of slides, and share visual bullet points with your audience. If you work in a setting where you give presentations on a frequent basis, but do not have the ability to open PowerPoint on your computer, you may have a corrupt file. However, you can repair PowerPoint for free if you understand how to use Microsoft Word to open the file and then move it to another destination on your computer.
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Open your PowerPoint software. Launch a brand new presentation. Click "Insert" and choose the "Slides from files" option. When the box comes up, find the corrupt file. Click "Insert All." If this function does not do the job, select "Insert" to insert individual slides."
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Open a Word document on your computer, then go to "Start," and click "Open." Find the particular PowerPoint file and open the file in Word format. Note that this enables you to recover the text portion of your PowerPoint file only.
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Use PowerPoint to launch the PowerPoint file. Go to the "Start" menu of your computer to open the PowerPoint file with a single click of your mouse.
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Transfer the PowerPoint file to another destination on your computer such as a USB flash drive or another disk on your hard drive. Right-click the presentation and choose the "Copy" option. Go to the other destination, right-click your mouse and choose "Paste."
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