PowerPoint 2011 won't open on my MacBook Pro

Yes, no idea why. Any solution?

Maybe it sounds silly and insophisticated, but have you checked tiny little sign just below the menu bar at top left of your screen? If you point your mouse there, then it will show arrow sign. If you click-hold the sign, then you can drag it across your screen to make your powerpoint page visible.

I faced similar problem like you did, but when I was about to reinstall the office, I spotted that tiny sign on the top left of my screen. I clicked, held and tried to drag it down, and woilaa.. my powerpoint screen is back again. Somehow my powerpoint screen was minimized, probably happened when I tried to fix my problem with projector connection.

Good luck then...

Thanks for this tip. I had a similar symptom and solved it by minimizing all my windows except for PowerPoint - at which point I saw my "missing" document which was about the size of a postage stamp.

I had same problems

You described my problem exactly. I never would have thought to look for that tiny thing in the corner of the screen. Thanks for saving me!

kharisma235

This is exactly what had happened to me. On the top left of my screen powerpoint had hidden itself. Strange thing to do. Good job I googled it first.

I had this issue too, thank goodness for this post. I couldn't see a small sign top left (as per kharisma235's reply), but my issue came from having my MBP plugged into an external screen – the missing Powerpoint presentation was hiding in the nether region between the two screens. As soon as I disconnected the external screen, the PPT document appeared centre of screen on my MBP. Problem solved. Unfortunately that means I've got to use Powerpoint now...

Thanks for the suggestion. That's exactly what happened to me too. My MBP was plugged into a Thunderbolt Display and I was working on a powerpoint file in the extended screen. I guess I never dragged the powerpoint window back to my laptop screen and unplugged my computer from the display when I left work. Strangely, opening a new powerpoint file ends up with the window off the laptop screen. The only way to get see it is to change your display setting scale to show more (i.e. smaller font). The you can just drag the powerpoint window back near the native screen's display area and change the display setting back to default.

if the other answers didn't help,open a new powerpoint and click open on the top left,click on the file you wish to use,in less than a minute you will be prompted with a message that says"your file was corrupt, would you like us to fix it and restart power point"click yes and after a few minutes open your docs and click on the powerpoint you wish to use, and it should be working.Hope this was helpful

I use an external monitor and it "vanished" when using that (couldn't even find it on my screen. Had to plug in the monitor to "find" powerpoint again. Thanks for the tip!

Most helpful. This has been driving me nuts (no offense to squirrels) for about a week. I am curious about it happened in the first place.

Many thanks,

Mike

I was able to resolve the issue by going to the task bar and clicking "View" and choosing the "Enter Full Screen" option. This allowed PowerPoint to return, I quit the program and reopened test and it worked fine ever since.

Guys I'm getting crazy out here! couldn't find that sign ur talking about!

please help

would u please tell me how have u done it?