From the course: Office 365 for Administrators: Troubleshooting Issues for Users (Office 365/Microsoft 365)

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Troubleshoot: Lost presentations

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From the course: Office 365 for Administrators: Troubleshooting Issues for Users (Office 365/Microsoft 365)

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Troubleshoot: Lost presentations

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- [Instructor] We have all had days where nothing goes right, and if your day included losing your PowerPoint presentation that is 62 slides long and you spent all afternoon working on, then you're having a really bad day. Luckily, the steps for locating missing PowerPoint files is similar for all the desktop apps. As always, the first place we should start is in file explorer, as you see here. Now, in my list, which is short, we can easily see our PowerPoint files. If I had a longer list, I could search by extension. To do so, select the directory and then enter *.pptx, and this will pull up all of the new PowerPoint files. If you're using an older version of PowerPoint, the extension will be ppt. Next, you can go ahead and look in the AutoRecover folder, and the easiest place to find that AutoRecover folder is within PowerPoint itself. Open PowerPoint, scroll up to File, Options, and then Save. It's here that we…

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