Re-record a narration on a single slide

[drobe...@officeformac.com]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel How do i re-record a narration on a single slide, after I have already recorded 7 of them. I want to change the narration on slide number 3. On a Windows version you would go to "Slide Show", "Record Narration", "Current Slide", but the current slide option is not available on the Mac version. How can I do this in the Mac version? thank you

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Hi,

In Normal view you can delete the narration's sound icon that you'll
find on the slide. From the Slide Show menu choose Record Narration.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
Co-author of Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies
http://tinyurl.com/Office-2008-for-Dummies

[drobe...@officeformac.com]

I've already tried that in the past, but it doesn't work right. I only want to re-record slide 3 and when I delete the narration's sound icon in slide 3 and then go to "Slide Show" Record Narration" it wants to start back on slide 1 and even if I skip ahead to slide 3 it still overrides any previous recordings that I had in slide 1 and 2, even though I have not deleted the sound icon's in those slides.

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Sorry, I forgot about that little habit of PowerPoint.

The way I usually do it is to use Audacity (free from SourceForce) to
record the audio one slide at a time, and then insert the audio onto the
slide. Audacity lets you easily edit the audio, so you can get rid of
the little gaps, noises, mistakes you make while speaking, etc before
you insert the audio.

[Elizabeth Coelho]

I found a workaround. Record each slide as a separate presentation, re-recording each one as often as you like. Then when you are satisfied, assemble the slides into one presentation. Don't forget to click at the end of each recording; this will advance to the next slide when they are all assmbled.

> On Monday, February 22, 2010 4:45 PM drobertso wrote:

> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: Intel
>

> How do i re-record a narration on a single slide, after I have already recorded 7 of them. I want to change the narration on slide number 3. On a Windows version you would go to "Slide Show", "Record Narration", "Current Slide", but the current slide option is not available on the Mac version. How can I do this in the Mac version? thank you

>> On Monday, February 22, 2010 7:42 PM Jim Gordon Mac MVP wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> In Normal view you can delete the narration's sound icon that you will

>> find on the slide. From the Slide Show menu choose Record Narration.
>>

>> -Jim
>>
>> --
>> Jim Gordon
>> Mac MVP
>> Co-author of Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies
>> http://tinyurl.com/Office-2008-for-Dummies

>>> On Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:45 PM drobertso wrote:

>>> I have already tried that in the past, but it does not work right. I only want to re-record slide 3 and when I delete the narration's sound icon in slide 3 and then go to "Slide Show" Record Narration" it wants to start back on slide 1 and even if I skip ahead to slide 3 it still overrides any previous recordings that I had in slide 1 and 2, even though I have not deleted the sound icon's in those slides.

[frate...@gmail.com]

I've run into the same problem. You'd think MS would have figured this out. It's the most awkward way of recording narration that I've ever seen. Like the original poster, I had to assemble a twelve page slide show from twelve separate presentations.

[EAW]

There is not a good way but I found a simplistic work around. Select the slide you want to record over. Select "start recording from current slide" and record your narration. Press Esc to exit from the slide show. (Do not advance to the next slide.) You will only record over the slide you selected. The remainder of the slides will be unaffected. It's not polished, but it works.

[chri...@gmail.com]

On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 8:05:24 AM UTC-4, EAW wrote:
> There is not a good way but I found a simplistic work around. Select the slide you want to record over. Select "start recording from current slide" and record your narration. Press Esc to exit from the slide show. (Do not advance to the next slide.) You will only record over the slide you selected. The remainder of the slides will be unaffected. It's not polished, but it works.

Ah, good solution

[sprodicleson]

On Monday, 21 September 2015 22:05:24 UTC+10, EAW wrote:
> There is not a good way but I found a simplistic work around. Select the slide you want to record over. Select "start recording from current slide" and record your narration. Press Esc to exit from the slide show. (Do not advance to the next slide.) You will only record over the slide you selected. The remainder of the slides will be unaffected. It's not polished, but it works.

Beautiful. Maybe not polished as you say, but a great workaround that does the job. Thanks a mint

[eubanksta...@gmail.com]

On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 7:05:24 AM UTC-5, EAW wrote:
> There is not a good way but I found a simplistic work around. Select the slide you want to record over. Select "start recording from current slide" and record your narration. Press Esc to exit from the slide show. (Do not advance to the next slide.) You will only record over the slide you selected. The remainder of the slides will be unaffected. It's not polished, but it works.

I don't see a "record from current slide" option anywhere.

[ev...@kaminers.net]

I also could not find "Record from current slide" on Mac PPT 2016. I did find another solution. I created a custom show with only the slides that I wanted to re-record. Record from beginning then started at the first slide of my custom show. Once the new timings and recordings were saved I deleted the custom show. The recordings were then merged into the full presentation.