Record Slide Show in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

Recording slides is almost like delivering a presentation that you cannot deliver in person! Let's imagine that you cannot deliver your slides in person. In that case, you would then want to deliver your presentation in front of your computer, almost as if you had a live audience present. All this while, your narrations are being recorded. Also, the time you spend on each slide is recorded along with the time taken for each animation to play. In PowerPoint, as far as interface is concerned, there is no difference between options available for rehearsing slides and for recording a slide show. The only difference is that while recording a Slide Show, along with the time spent on each slide, your narrations are also being recorded through the connected microphone.

Follow these steps to get started with recording your presentation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac:

1. First, ensure you have a decent microphone that is attached to your computer and works well. This page on microphones for PowerPoint will help.
2. Then, save your presentation. Even better, make a backup copy of your presentation, just in case.
3. With your presentation open, access the Slide Show tab of the Ribbon, and click the Record Slide Show button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1, below.
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   Figure 1: Record Slide Show button
4. Doing so brings up the Recording view, as shown in Figure 2 below, which essentially is Presenter view that is equipped with the Recording options.
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   Figure 2: Recording view
5. From this point onwards, the Recording works in exactly the same way as explained in our Rehearse Slides Timings tutorial. Read from Point 4 onwards on that page. But although the options look the same, do remember that your narrations are being recorded while you speak from slide to slide.
6. Once your recording is completed and saved, you can see an audio icon on all slides in the presentation, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3, below.
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   Figure 3: Audio icon on each slide