subject: Fixing 'powerpoint Found Unreadable Content In Presentation.pptx...' Error [print this page] PowerPoint presentations are considered as effective communication tools. No corporate meeting, seminar or tutorial is complete without an interesting and enlightening PowerPoint presentation. The ease with which you can add texts, images, graphics, tables etc makes it a wonderful application. However, being a regular user of PowerPoint, you may come across some nagging errors. These errors are generated if a PowerPoint file gets corrupt. Fortunately, there are many workarounds which you can
As a practical case, you may come across the following error while trying to open a presentation in PowerPoint 2007:
PowerPoint found unreadable content in Presentation.pptx. Do you want to recover the contents of this presentation? If you trust the source of this presentation, click Yes.
The unique number of this particular error can also be generated by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I. After doing so, the following number appears along with the message:
400645
Cause
The only possible reason behind this abrupt behavior is that your PowerPoint presentations has got corrupted or damaged.
Resolution
The above issue can be resolved if you try and open your corrupt PowerPoint presentation in an earlier version. If you are still not able to open the presentation, try and insert the slides from the damaged presentation to a new blank presentation file by following the below-mentioned steps:
Go to Home tab, in the Slides group, click New Slide, and then click Reuse Slides.
In Reuse Slides tab, click Open a PowerPoint File
Go to Browse, locate the presentation file that contains the slides you want, and then click Open.
If the above steps fail to recover PowerPoint file, don't lose hope and think that you have lost your valuable information. Your presentation can be still recovered by using a PowerPoint recovery software.
These third-party applications are designed to extract data from corrupt presentations. Being read-only, they do not modify the original content, therefore can be blindly trusted. Moreover, these easy-to-use tools come equipped with a simple graphical user interface for which you need not require any prior technical knowledge.
