Microsoft PowerPoint is on over a billion computers worldwide, according to Robert Gaskins, one of the program's developers. So it's likely you'll come across a PowerPoint Presentation file you need ...

Before we start, here are some scenarios in which you can use these tips to extract data from the PowerPoint file or fix it and make it work as expected. This is not a PowerPoint Presentation.

Wrong. Google Docs wouldn't open my test PPTX file, but the service lets you create and edit presentations in the older PowerPoint PPT format, albeit without most of the desktop app's formatting ...