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Stellar Phoenix PowerPoint Repair: Conversation with Sunil Chandna

Sunil Chandna is the CEO of Stellar Information Systems Ltd. He heads the Sales and Marketing operations for Stellar, a company involved with data recovery software solutions and services business since 1993. Stellar develops data recovery software across different categories, such as hard disk recovery, database recovery, email recovery, password recovery, and Microsoft Office file recovery.

In this conversation, Sunil discusses Stellar’s Phoenix PowerPoint Repair product.

Geetesh: Why do perfectly good PowerPoint presentations get corrupt, and what can everyday users do to prevent their presentation files from getting corrupt?

Sunil: There are dozens of things that can corrupt even your perfectly fine PowerPoint presentations. Typical symptoms include mis-positioning of objects in your PowerPoint slides, missing or overlapped images, animations not working as expected. Often, it is not possible to open a corrupt PowerPoint presentation. Some known reasons for damage to your PPT/PPTX files are virus infection, abrupt termination of the program, enabling “Allow fast saves” option, and the like. You can prevent PowerPoint file corruption in the first place and safeguard your valuable data by considering the following options when dealing with these files:

• If you store PowerPoint presentations on any removable media device, first copy them to your hard drive and then start working on them.
• Do not enable the “Allow Fast Saves” option as it saves data by appending changes to your file making it bulky and oversized.
• Use the “Save As” command on the File menu more often.
• Backup your PowerPoint presentations regularly.
• Compress these files before sending them via email.

Geetesh: Your Stellar Phoenix PowerPoint Repair retrieves corrupt PowerPoint files — can you share some info about your product, and also give us a few examples where it helped users salvage their content?

Sunil: Stellar Phoenix PowerPoint Repair is a smart, user-friendly tool that repairs PowerPoint file corruption and resurrects the file with all its original formatting and attributes. The software fixes the file header and repairs corruption in individual objects used in your presentation. The competent tool can safely restore header/footer/slide number, charts, comments, hyperlinks, AutoShapes, OLE objects, Notes page, forms, modules, and more.

Here are a few common PowerPoint file corruption scenarios:

Sending the file via email without zipping

As the PowerPoint file travels through the cyberspace, there is a good chance it might get corrupt midway. Stellar Phoenix PowerPoint Repair can easily repair PowerPoint files damaged during transfer over the Internet or any other network.

Opening the file in a different versions of PowerPoint

If you open a file in a different version of PowerPoint application, it might get damaged due to compatibility issues. More often than not, this action introduces minor corruptions in your PowerPoint presentation. Stellar Phoenix PowerPoint Repair can resolve almost any type of corruption, ranging from minor to severe file damage.

Virus Contamination

Some viruses are intentionally designed to target PowerPoint files. Viruses usually corrupt the file header. Stellar Phoenix PowerPoint Repair can rebuild the corrupt header to make the file usable again. It restores all objects to a new PowerPoint presentation.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, PowerPoint

Indezine News: March 12, 2013

In this issue, we showcase Star shapes from our Organic Shapes series. Carmen Taran of Rexi Media discusses how much of any given presentation the audience recollects — she does have some counterintuitive findings! Claudyne Wilder delves into an important topic — about properly answering questions from your audience. PowerPoint 2013 users should read our coverage on the new Resume Reading feature that lets you edit your presentation from the slide you edited last! We also have tutorials that show you how to trim audio in PowerPoint 2010, and on working with bullets and indents in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Finally, learn how you can tame notifications in Windows 8.

Read all this and more in Indezine News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Advanced Audio Options in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

When you insert an audio clip into a PowerPoint slide, you can control its volume, set it to play looped, or even hide the audio icon. These are some of the advanced options available for any inserted audio clip in PowerPoint. Remember that these advanced options only exist so that you can use them when they are required, rather than using them just because they exist! Let us now explore all these options.

Explore advanced audio options in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Music, PowerPoint 2010, Sounds, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: WordArt Styles

In PowerPoint, WordArt is a very powerful tool that can make the text in your presentation look awesome or out-of-place, depending upon how you have used it. Before we proceed further, you must know that WordArt has nothing to do with Microsoft Word and is a totally independent feature in PowerPoint. Word Art is a collection of text styles that plays with text in a way similar to how PowerPoint’s Shape Styles play with shapes. WordArt Styles, also known as Quick Styles, are a collection of some prebuilt text styles which you can instantly apply to your text. These WordArt Styles are all Theme-specific, so if the presentation’s Theme is changed, any WordArt applied also reflects the changes accordingly. Follow these steps to learn how to apply Quick Styles to selected text.

Learn how to apply WordArt Styles in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Text, Tutorials

PowerPoint Concept Slides: Organic Stars

Stars are often associated with skies, or as ornaments hanging from a festive tree. Additionally, most stars we doodle with a pen or a marker tend to have five points. And of course there’s something about hand drawn stars – they look warm, independent, and different — just like these organic star shapes. Stars are just one of the 8 shape types we have included in this Organic Shapes collection – and each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants each – so you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! These shapes will help break the monotony of text heavy slides, and assist you in explaining difficult concepts better to your audiences. Using these organic shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing and comprehensible. What’s more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!

Buy and download these slides now.

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Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples