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Add the Recording Tab to PowerPoint Not Working
Greg,
Thank you for the suggestion. I forgot to mention I am in the IT department. :) The issue we have is that our instructional trainers have told the campus about Office Mix to the campus and now they are trying to figure out what to tell instructors that are using Office Mix or would like to switch over to the new. So, we have a mix of users who have been using it for a while and then possibly new faculty that will need to use it too.
I believe the issue we had when we tried installing the install from Office 365 is that we could not control the updates. So, we went back to the OEM version so we could control updates. I will talk to our instructional designer to see if it would make sense to move those individuals who are currently using Office Mix and need the Record tab to the Office 365 install. I am just afraid there might be too many.
Thanks again for the suggestion and the reply. If you come across anything else regarding the Record tab, please let me know.
John
I added the ADMX / ADML files for Office 2016 two days ago, set the group policy, verified that the policy was applied by using gpresult, but still no recording toolbar on the Enterprise version. Is anyone else getting it to work?
Good Afternoon - this looks promising. I've just installed the Office ADMX files to my central store and configured the GPO. I've contacted the "Power" PowerPoint user for testing. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Thank you for the Update!!
Definitely going to share with our admin - thanks for sharing!
- Has anyone tried this yet?
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/administrator-settings-for-the-recording-features-in-powerpoint-2016-16d1d535-2f07-4a04-ace2-a8eff89c079c
The articles says it applies to Powerpoint 2016 as well as 365 so it could be a solution for those of us using Enterprise. - Thanks John. If I learn further I'll post here as well.
- If I hear of another way to do this process, I will let you know. It sounds as though until Microsoft changes, this is the way it will have to be done.
John I would definitely appreciate if anyone has a solution for automating the addition of the "Recording" tab the main menus prior to imaging devices. Right now we are installing Office Click 2 Run on our school board devices but then teachers/students need to manually add the Recording tab. Hoping to have it appear for all like we could do in past with the Office Mix tab.
Thank you for the feedback. Maybe I have to create some documentation for the faculty on the procedure to create custom tabs and add the commands. Would you happen to know if a PowerShell script exists somewhere to accomplish this?
Thank you for the update. We have the Enterprise version on our campus as well. The tab is not even hidden and available to add to the ribbon. The administration doesn't want to use O365 for managerial reasons which I am not privy. MS should have provided an alternative function before fully removing the feature. I appreciate your input.
- Jim,
The only way we have been able to get this feature is to uninstall the enterprise version and then install from the faculty members Office 365 log on the O365 Office suite installation. Basically, this gives them the ability to have the Record Tab. The Enterprise version, which we install on all campus computers, does not have this feature or even ability to add it through the customize ribbon.
John I had it previously, but I recently reinstalled PowerPoint and just noticed it wasn't visible. Try selecting File > Options > Customize Ribbon, and see whether the Recording tab is just hidden. I had to check the box to display it, but now it's there. I'm running build 1803 (9112.2004 Click-to-run), which is an Office Insider build.
Most of the commands on Recordings can be found in other areas of the ribbon. Record Slide Show is on the Slide Show tab; Apps and Quizzes is really just a shortcut to a filtered view of My Apps on the Insert tab; Screenshot, Screen Recording, Video, and Audio are all on the Insert tab; and Save as Show, Export to Video, and Publish to Stream are all on the File tab.
Were you able to access the Recording Tab?
We have instructors at our University that have used Office Mix and now want this recording tab. We are using PowerPoint 16.0.4639.1000 and this feature is still not available.
Which version release should have this feature?
- We have been allowing faculty to do the O365 install from their own five install limit to install on their campus computer which allows for the offered solution from Microsoft. Hopefully Microsoft will eventually allow the recording tab in Enterprise.
We are in the same boat, here is my suggestion. If you still have the OfficeMix install file, couldn't you continue to install the Mix add-in and use it as normal? You just wouldn't be saving/sharing the mix files through Office Mix but instead through Stream as that is its replacement?
