Power Point keeps trying to repair file (Solved)

imrehegedus41

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I have a user running Office 2010 that every time they open a given Power Point file it prompts them to repair the file:
'PowerPoint found unreadable content in Presentation.pptx. PowerPoint can attempt to repair the presentation.
If you trust the source of this presentation, click Repair."
If you click repair, it does not appear to make any changes to the file and it opens but it says:
"PowerPoint removed unreadable content in Presentation [Repaired]. You should review this presentation to determine whether any content was unexpectedly changed or removed."
If you choose 'cancel' as opposed to 'repair' it simply does not open the file.
I can't open this same file on other machines running Powerpoint 2010. I have tried running a repair of Office as well as all available office updates to resolve. Any help I can get on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
 

bruceb

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Found this tip at technet:

RESOLUTION: what you do is right-click on the PPTx file name and select PROPERTIES. On this dialogue box, you will see a button marked UNBLOCK, click on this and then press OK.
That's it. Now the file will open.
Hope this solution helps...


Give it a try ... let us know
 

BjarneJeppesen

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I'd probably let it run the repair then do a Save As and resave the file. Hopefully that will resolve it.
Or try resolve this by opening the Presentation file in google documents and then resaving it.
 

imrehegedus41

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Thank you guys for your feedback and help. Sorry, that long time did not respond. This is because the issue was solved and I forgot to tell.) Thank you!
 

bruceb

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All well and great to hear. Now which, if any, of our suggestions did the trick for you ? ? ?
 

semnaitik

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If you want to repair PowerPoint file, you can try few easy manual tricks which are performed using PowerPoint tool. MS PowerPoint has a couple of built-in features you can try here. First you should try Open and Repair to open corrupt PowerPoint file. You can also try to insert slides from corrupt PowerPoint file into a new presentation. Some other things might also be helpful here. You can locate the temporary (.tmp) file to recover data from it. Also, you can try to open corrupt PowerPoint file in other applications. For more information, you can read this blog post: Blog redacted

If the manual tricks fail or don't work for you, then you can try some professional recovery solutions available with free demo or trial version. You can download free demo version o
 
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