Trouble Shooting “powerpoint has encountered…” Error Message

Let’s consider a real life scenario wherein while working on PowerPoint files, you come across the following symptoms:

Either the embedded pictures appear incorrectly, or the PowerPoint stops responding or it hangs, or the text cannot be pasted. Due to all these reasons, the below mentioned error message appears:

"PowerPoint has encountered a problem and needs to close"

Once the above mentioned error message appears, the entire data becomes inaccessible.

Now that we have come to know the error message, let’s figure out the actual or the root cause behind the occurrence of the above mentioned error message.

The primary cause behind the occurrence of the above mentioned error message is a damaged and corrupt PowerPoint registry subkey.

Yet another reason behind the occurrence of the above mentioned error message is corruption in the PowerPoint files.

Now that we have come to know the error message and the possible cause behind the occurrence of the above mentioned error message, let’s quickly come to the resolution part.

Just in case the error has occurred due to damaged and corrupt PowerPoint registry subkey, you need to delete the PowerPoint registry subkey.

To remove or delete the damaged and corrupt PowerPoint registry subkey, you need to perform the below mentioned steps:

1. From the Start menu, click Run.
2. In the Open box, enter Regedit and then click the Ok button.
   
3. In the registry editor, click the

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\PowerPoint subkey

   
   on the File menu, click Export.
   
4. Delete the subkey.
5. Quit the Registry Editor.
6. Restart the PowerPoint application.

However, in case the error has occurred due to PowerPoint corruption or you are unable to resolve the error using the aforementioned steps, you need to perform PowerPoint repair using a professional and proficient PowerPoint recovery tool.

A number of PowerPoint recovery tools are available in the market. Carefully choose the one that is as per your requirements.

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