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=**Recording Your Own Sounds**= To record sound files, you need to plug a microphone into the **mic** jack on your computer's sound card. The following steps show you how to record a narration for a slide. In Normal or Slide View, click on the slide you want to add a recording to.
 * 1) Click the **Insert menu < Movies and Sounds < Record Sound**.
 * 2) When the Record Sound dialog box appears, type a name for your recording in the Name box.
 * 3) Use the Play, Stop, and Record buttons to record your narration.
 * 4) If you want to change your recording, you need to delete it and start over. Hit the Cancel button from the Record Sound dialog, or select the sound icon on the slide and hit Delete.
 * 5) When you're satisfied with your recording, click OK. The Record Sound dialog box will close, and a speaker icon will appear in the middle of your slide. You can resize this icon or move it to other parts of the slide.If you right click on the icon, you can opt to hide it during the presentation so that it does not show.
 * 6) Use the process above to insert this recorded sound into your PowerPoint by associating it with an action button.

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To start narration, you go to the Slide Show tab and click Record Narration (in 2002/2003 choose Slide Show> Record Narration). Click the Set Microphone Level button to set and test your audio setup. Then be sure to click the Change Quality button! You need to do this every single time; you can’t change the default. Change the quality when you narrate Then, in the Sound Selection dialog box, choose CD Quality from the Name drop-down list, and click OK twice to start narrating. Use CD Quality for your narration You then go into Slide Show view automatically. Narrate the presentation, clicking to move from slide to slide. At the end, you’ll be asked if you want to save the slide timings. Do so to set the timings for each slide to match the narration.

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If you make a mistake, you can re-narrate a slide. Go to the slide, re-open the Record Narration dialog box and start again. Record the narration for that slide and then press Esc. Be careful not to go to the next slide. However, if your new narration is longer than the original, you may run into a recognized problem—truncated narrations! This can be very frustrating. It apparently happens because PowerPoint saves narratioan timings separatly from slide timings. Even if you increase the timing for the slide, PowerPoint will truncate the narration! I’m going to tell you what Microsoft says to do and then tell you what worked for me. Microsoft’s instructions are: No matter what I did, my new narration was cut off. I made it shorter than the original and still the same amount was cut off. Finally, I realized that that the problem wasn’t the length. PowerPoint was cutting off a certain amount no matter what the length. So, I recorded a silent period at the end of a narration. Then, when PowerPoint cut it off, I was fine!
 * 1) Make sure that all animations are set to advance on mouse click and not automatically.
 * 2) If the last item to be animated on the slide is a text frame of an AutoShape that contains text, create one new shape and place it outside of the slide’s area. Set the shape’s Custom Animation setting to Appear. Make sure that the shape is the last item to animate and that it is set to animated on a mouse click.
 * 3) Make sure that any slide transitions are set to advance on a mouse click and not automatically.
 * 4) Re-record the narration and click No when asked if youwant to save the slide timings.
 * 5) Preview the presentation in Slide Show view manually and check the narrations.
 * 6) Then add the automatic slide and animation timings.

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