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Quick PowerPoint Tip: Recover Unsaved Presentations
It’s not uncommon to lose hours of work in PowerPoint due to an unexpected system crash, shutdown, or power outage. Microsoft knows this, which is why the program comes with AutoRecover. It’s a feature that lets you retrieve unsaved PowerPoint presentations.
This tutorial will teach you how to use the AutoRecover feature of Microsoft PowerPoint in Windows and macOS, and provide tips on how to recover lost or deleted PowerPoint presentations.
When you work on a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 10 and 11, the program's built-in AutoRecover functionality backs up the presentation to a temporary file every 10 minutes.