subject: Recovering Ppt File After powerpoint Can't Read The Outline From... Error [print this page] PowerPoint is a presentation application offered by Microsoft as a part of its office suite. The program is primarily used to create interactive slides which incorporate audios, videos, texts, graphics and other items. It has also emerged as an effective communication tool in the business environment as a presenter can impress the audience provided he uses the tool creatively and wisely. The application is often used by business executives, students, teachers and trainers worldwide. Despite so many advantages, the application is quite cumbersome to handle. A PowerPoint file can become corrupted due to various reasons. A presenter can be in mess if his presentation file gets corrupt and he doesn't have an appropriate backup to restore the data. In such unfortunate scenarios, a PowerPoint recovery utility comes really handy.
Sample this: You are striving hard to complete a PowerPoint presentation to be given during a seminar in your college. Your work of two weeks will be accomplished when you add the required statistics, but to your horror when you open the file to put in the figures, you receive the following error:
PowerPoint can't read the outline from file_path/filename.ppt. No text converter is installed for this file type
File_path refers to the location of the file. Filename.ppt indicates the name of the presentation file.
After the above error message your PowerPoint file will not open and the corresponding content will become inaccessible.
Cause
The error message could be an outcome of file corruption. The file may have got corrupted if you have enabled 'allow fast saves' option.
Resolution
In order to resolve the above problem, you can adopt following troubleshooting mechanisms:
Drag the presentation to the PowerPoint program file
Double-click the PowerPoint presentation in Microsoft Windows Explorer
Insert slides into a blank presentation
1. Go to File menu and create a new blank presentation
2.On the Insert menu, click Slides from files, and then click the Find Presentation tab
3. Click Browse, select the damaged presentation and then click Open
4. Click Insert All
5 Save the presentation
Try to open the presentation in PowerPoint viewer
Move the presentation to another PC
Move the presentation to another disk
If nothing of the above work to your benefit, don't worry as you still have a hope with a PowerPoint recovery utility which has the capability to repair all constituents of a PowerPoint presentation. A pptx recovery tool has the option of Raw recovery which can be considered in case a file is seriously damaged.
