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The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA
Dodge Family College of Arts & Sciences
Online & Academic Technology Services
RECORDING NARRATION
1) When you are ready to record, click the Record button in the toolbar at the
top of the screen. There will be a countdown from three, then recording will
begin.
Be sure to leave 1-2 seconds of silence at the beginning and end of the narration for each slide. This will
help prevent your words from being cut off in the recording.
If your PowerPoint includes embedded video and you will be exporting your PowerPoint as a video, you
must click on the video to start playback. Click on the video again to end video playback. If you do not
click on the video to begin and end playback, the video will not appear in the exported video.
You can use arrow keys to advance through the slides. Recording will continue as you advance through
slides.
Please note that narration will not be
recorded during animations and slide transitions.
2) You can pause recording at any time. Press the pause button again to
resume recording.
3) Click the Stop button to stop recording.
PowerPoint will not allow you to advance to a slide that already has a recording. This is to prevent
accidentally recording over a previous recording. For this same reason, PowerPoint will also not allow you
to move backwards through slides while recording.
4) To re-record a slide, first delete the existing recording by clicking the
trashcan icon. You will then be able to record on the slide again.
If you try to record on a slide and the record button is missing, and you see the trashcan icon as shown
above, this means there is a recording on the slide already. The existing recording must be deleted before
recording can take place.
When you are finished recording, click End Show in the upper-left corner of the screen to return to the
main PowerPoint editing screen. It is highly recommended that you verify that you are satisfied with your
recordings before exporting.