Manage Versions: Recovering Unsaved Presentations in PowerPoint

Created: Thursday, April 20, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 1:01 pm

Updated: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 11:15 am

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Imagine this situation: you started working on a presentation, saved it couple of times, then got so much involved in your work that you spent an inordinate amount of time working on it without saving it. Then, your computer unexpectedly crashes or just shuts off due to some unexpected crisis. Or maybe just PowerPoint crashes for some reason. Does it mean you are now left with your presentation in the status when you last saved it and lost all your work? Not really because you can restart PowerPoint, and one of two occurrences may happen.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Recovering Unsaved Presentations in PowerPoint 2016

Recovering Unsaved Presentations in PowerPoint 2013

Recovering Unsaved Presentations in PowerPoint 2010

Recovering Unsaved Presentations in PowerPoint

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