Recovering PowerPoint document after lockup

[Guest]

Help for PowerPoint autosave and document recovery says only that I should
find the document I want to recover in the "Document Recovery Task Pane". I
am used to this in MS-Word as the task pane appears automatically after a
lockup. But there is no such task pane in PowerPoint. I have Autosave
turned on but it does not seem to be actually on.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Help for PowerPoint autosave and document recovery says only that I should
find the document I want to recover in the "Document Recovery Task Pane". I
am used to this in MS-Word as the task pane appears automatically after a
lockup. But there is no such task pane in PowerPoint. I have Autosave
turned on but it does not seem to be actually on.

This only works if PPT itself detects that there's been a crash. In my
experience, that means one where it shows you the "PowerPoint has just lost its
lunch, sorry." dialog box before it goes away.

Well. Words to that effect. More or less. In a manner of speaking.

If it doesn't do that, chances are it hasn't worked out that it's crashed, so
won't attempt to recover from the crash.

 

[Echo S]

Unfortunately the document recovery doesn't always work. You may have to go
back to your last known good copy. Or see if there's anything useable in
your TEMP file folder.