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What version of Office with PowerPoint do you have installed? What is the complete error message? You can click the link below to see if the information listed applies to your error.

You receive an error message when you try to open a presentation in PowerPoint
Applies to: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 PowerPoint 2010

Upload your File Here This service automatically restores the data.

The steps, which a PowerPoint recovery online for this solution, are shown below:

1. Open MS PowerPoint program. Click on Office button (on top of the left side).
2. A window will be appearing. Now select corrupt PowerPoint file from the system directory.
3. Click on the arrow of Open button. A list will be scrolled down.
4. From the list, click on Open and Repair. After some seconds, the file will be repaired and opened.

Note: Though this solution efficiently works with corrupt files, but if it does not work we must try the following solutions.

1. We should try to open a corrupt file in OpenOffice.org Impress.
2. We should try to open a corrupt file in MS Word. If it gets opened, we can recover at least the text part of the presentation file.
3. We should try to import the slides from the damaged file into a new file.