“I have a PowerPoint presentation which is not opening on my computer. Thinking that issues are in MS Office PowerPoint application, I re-installed it and again tried to launch the file; but no success. How can I fix PowerPoint file that is not opening on Windows 8? Please help!”
If you are scared of losing your valuable PowerPoint presentation, which you have created after hour’s hard work, don’t bother! You have multiple solutions to deal with this problem. In case, you are unable to open PPTX file on your Windows 8 system, check out following options:
- Open the file using PowerPoint Viewer
- Try launch temporary version of PowerPoint presentations
- Move your presentation to a different storage location then open it
- Launch the PowerPoint file on Word
- Create a blank PowerPoint file and insert all slides to it
- Try a third party application to open the presentation
Hope above discussed tricks will ease your efforts to open PowerPoint file on Windows 8 system. However, if you are still on the way and receiving error while opening PowerPoint file, try to repair it for corruption issues because this unexpected behavior may come out when presentation is corrupt or damaged. You may fail to open PPT/PPTX file on Windows 8 because of any of the following reasons:
- PowerPoint file may be corrupted due to virus or malware intrusion
- Error while importing presentations from another system
- Network break-down while downloading PPTX file in Windows 8
- Header corruption or file index damage
- Faulty MS Office PowerPoint application
Solution to fix and open PowerPoint file on Windows 8:
When you don’t find any backup after digging out your Windows 8 hard drive, simply take advantage of any professional PowerPoint file repair tool. Fixing corrupted or bad PowerPoint presentation is very easy with the aid of Yodot PPT Repair application. This software scans PPT file thoroughly to identify and mend all possible irregularities and makes it error free to open it on Windows 8. This PowerPoint file repair application offers complete and quick repair of not opening PowerPoint file extracting every piece of intact information including hyperlinks, tables, charts, OLE objects, forms, comments, VBA code, header and footer, slides etc. You can utilize this advanced tool to repair PowerPoint 2013 file and PPT or PPTX presentations created on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, 2007, 2003 and 2000 versions. Other than Windows 8, it is possible to fix PowerPoint presentations on Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2008 OS based computers.
Steps to fix not opening PowerPoint file in Windows 8
- Download Yodot PPT Repair tool and install it to your Windows 8 computer
- Launch the application by using shortcut icon present on the desktop
- Go through instructions provided on the main window of this PowerPoint file repair application
- Browse for that PowerPoint file that is not opening on Windows 8 and has to be repaired
- Now, hit “Repair” tab to initiate PowerPoint file repair process
- You can monitor the repair process by looking at the progress bar displaying on the screen
- Once repairing is finished, you will get a confirmation message that is displayed on the screen
- Take help of the Preview option to view fixed PPT/PPTX file
- At last, save fixed PowerPoint file to a desired location on your Windows 8 computer
Important Suggestions
- Install regular PowerPoint updates on your Windows 8 computer
- Don’t try to modify PowerPoint file on your if you aren’t comfortable
- Avoid interruption while downloading or importing PowerPoint file on Windows 8
