How to add narration to selected slides

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In this case, we will make use of the Record Sound feature in PowerPoint. The procedure is outlined below.

• Start PowerPoint and open the presentation you wish to add the narration to. If you are creating a new presentation, then first enter all the textual and graphic content before you proceed with adding the narration.
• Next you have to make sure that when you record your narrations, PowerPoint will embed the sound files and not link to them. This will make uploading them to/downloading from the web or emailing them much simpler. In PowerPoint, go to 'Tools' and click on 'Options.' Now click the 'General' Tab and this window should pop up:




• You cannot tell PowerPoint to never link to sound files, however you can tell it to only link files which are larger than a prohibitively large size. The largest size we can enter is 50000Kb or 50Mb, so let's use this. Enter 50000 in the 'Link sounds with file size greater than' field. Click 'OK'
• Select the slide you want to add the narration to. Then, click on the Insert tab on the tool bar above. From there, select Movies and Sound and then Record Sound.

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