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I had a question from someone using the Mac version of PPT. Their file became corrupted and will not open - does anyone know of a recovery program or any suggestions would be helpful.
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Hi
You'ld be better off asking in the Mac forum:
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums/
Lucy
Lucy Thomson
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What Ms. Lucy Said.
And:
Mac: How do I recover corrupt or unreadable PowerPoint presentations?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00423.htm
Recovering a corrupt presentation
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00108.htm
And if you can move the file to a Windows PC with any 97-2007 version of PowerPoint, try opening it there. If that works, save the presentation (as PPTX if you've got Mac Office 2011; as PPT if you have an earlier version). Try opening it on the Mac. If that still doesn't work, trundle back to the PC and thump the presentation with this:
HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm
Steve Rindsberg PowerPoint MVP