After hours of piecing together the perfect presentation, disaster happens the next morning as you go present it: It’s gone. No matter how frantically you search File Explorer, your precious PowePoint presentation is gone. Microsoft, though, has your back. As long as you haven’t disabled autorecovery, the file should still be on your machine -- or in the cloud, if you’re an Office365 user. It’s not foolproof, but you can often recover these accidentally deleted files.
Next time, however, you might want to save a redundant copy to the cloud, just in case.
1. Open a blank Microsoft PowerPoint document and click the File tab.
2. Click the Options link at the bottom.
3. Choose the Save option from the left.
4.Once you find the section with a path showing where your autosaved documents go, select and copy it. In my case, it’s here: C:\Users\Bryan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\PowerPoint\
5. Open File Explorer and paste in the copied file path. Hit enter.
6. Here, we’ll see the last save of the document I was working on, which starts with the name “MYPRESENTATION.” Click it to open the file.
7. Right click the Microsoft PowerPoint file, and select Open with.
8. Choose PowerPoint, and click Ok.
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