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How to fix the Microsoft PowerPoint error “The file is corrupted and cannot be opened”

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Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful software developed by Microsoft. It is a very important part of the Microsoft Office suite. People use it to represent the information through slides. You can add several multimedia files like photo, audio, video into it to make it more impressive. Sometimes, you try to open your important PowerPoint file and you got below error message. You can try below five methods to fix this error message: Method#1 Open and Repair Open Microsoft PowerPoint Go to File tab and click on the Open Select the corrupted PPT file Select the Open and Repair option from the drop down menu. Method#2 Component Security Setting To set the component security setting, follow these steps: Start RUN, enter dcomcnfg and press the OK button. Expand Component Services -> Computers . Now right click on My Computer and select the Properties . Choose the Default Properties tab and set the following: Default Authentication level: Co...

How to Repair JPEG Files After Recovery?

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Do you like photography? If yes, then this blog is for you. It doesn’t matter you are a professional photographer or shutterbug because this blog is helpful for all users who want to secure their photographs. A quote by Robert Frank - “ There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. ” We capture the photos by camera and called memories. I was travelling from Paris to Amsterdam with a photographer Jason and, he shared his few experiences related to corruption in photographs with me. Jason lost his photos and tried a recovery program to recover them. A recovery program can recover the deleted data, but there is no guarantee that all recovered data are same as before. He recovered all the pictures but had some damaged or unreadable JPEG images. He repaired them by using a JPEG repair software . The software name is Stellar Phoenix JPEG Repair so when I reached to my destination, then rethink about the issue that he shared with me. Fortunately,...

ThanksGiving Data Recovery & File repair Bundle for Windows User

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Stellar Data Recovery is a leading data recovery company. It has more than 2 million customers across 190 countries. On this Thanksgiving ; the company is offering a super saver bundle at discounted price. You will get eight products for the price of one. These are the award-winning products and very useful in recovering lost data. List of the products on this super saver package are: Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery ($49.99): This is one the best photo recovery software to recover lost or deleted photos, audios, videos, and other multimedia files. With a user-friendly GUI and advanced features, this software facilitates digital media recovery from even corrupt or formatted hard drives, USB drives, digital cameras, memory cards, and other external storage media devices.  Stellar Phoenix JPEG Repair ($39.99): This software can repair corrupt JPEG/JPG file in few simple steps. It supports Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP. Its user-friendly interface makes the repai...

How to Troubleshoot Damaged QuickBooks Data

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QuickBooks is an accounting software. In other words, you can say it is a money management software that uses the file of .qbw file extension to store data. This blog outlines the solution to repair damaged QuickBooks data file. With the help of these troubleshooting steps you will be able to fix the problem. Restore from the backup: Yes, your backup can be superhero here and restore your data. If you have clean and updated backup then it is the time to use it.  Note: Make sure your backup is latest otherwise you will lose the recent change or update of your data. By creating new company file: You can replace your old company file with the new one. You can export the information such as; customer, vendors, account chart, etc. into newly created file. This method will help to avoid the future problem and improves the performance. Read these points related to troubleshooting Open the computer where actual company data file is stored Do not perform rebuild act...

Three Most Common Excel Issues and their Solutions

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Summary: In this article, I will discuss three MS Excel errors and their solutions by the smart way. These are very simple tips that explain how a user can leverage Excel problems. MS Excel is a useful application for the home user as well as the business user. It plays an important role differently on different sectors. A school teacher can use it to maintain student records where a data analyst can use the function and formulas to find the appropriate output. Three common errors that I will describe in this blog are: Excel file is corrupted and cannot be opened Microsoft Excel is not responding Unable to save Excel file (User issue) These errors can occur in MS Excel 2016, 2013,2010, 2007, etc. Let’s discuss them. Excel file is corrupted and cannot be opened This error message also Occurs in so many Excel version including MS Excel 2016. Users complain that when they update their MS Office (example: from 2007 to 2010) then got this error. User can fix this error by ...

How to Fix MS Word Unreadable Content Error?

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I read a question on a forum. A user has a word document with some unreadable content. He shared his document on google drive and given that link on the question. I downloaded that document and tried to check it. I opened the document and got the following error message: I read out the details section and click on the OK button. Again I got an error message from Microsoft Word “Word found unreadable content in Your_filename. Do you want to recover the contents of this document? If you trust the source of this document, click Yes”.  I clicked on Yes button to open the file.  The Word document has 20 pages and 90% content was in the readable form. Some mathematical equations were in unreadable form and to repair them I perform the following methods: Open file using Zoho Writer: Zoho writer is fully featured word processing program on the cloud. I logged in from Google drive account and tried to open that shared file using Zoho writer and click Continue butt...

How to fix MS Excel blank worksheet issue?

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Blank Excel file problem is a very irritating situation. In this case, you will be unable to see the content of the file. Here, I am going to share some solutions to fix this issue. Before proceeding any methods, try Open and Repair option to fix the issue. when open and repair option not works then, try these options: Copy the file from one location to another location and try to open it.  Rename the file or change the file extension.  If you are not able to fix the issue by these solutions, then try them: Ignore Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE): Some applications can interrupt MS Excel to open the worksheet or Excel shows blank worksheet. With DDE option, Excel can share the information with other applications.  To stop this process, go to File->Options->Advanced. Check the General section and check the “ Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) ” and click OK to save the setting. Check Add-Ins Setting: Turn-off the COM Add-Ins ...