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Mix tools in PowerPoint 2016
Hi, I have been using Office Mix 2016 for a few years to do tutorials for the teachers I work with. Our county updated to 2016 around the holidays. They told us that Microsoft was putting all the t...
I'm using a Insider Preview version of PowerPoint 2016 and it now has a new "Recording" tab that has many of the features of the "Mix" tab except of course "Upload to Office Mix". If this is going to be included, what is the future of the mix.office.com site and how can we get the analytics?
Hi,
Because some items like...
- inserting a video
- inserting a screenshot
- screen recording
...can be used in non-Mix environments, they're available on other ribbons besides the Mix ribbon. The "magic" in Mix occurs when you upload the presentation to the cloud. It's at that point that the conversion from a PowerPoint deck to a Mix video occurs.
To get analytics, you have to upload the Mix, then set the privacy setting so that it requires a user to log in (if you want to see each person's analytics).
You'll need to go to mix.office.com and download the free Mix add-in. (Click on the orange, "Get Office Mix" rectangle).
After you click to download the add-in, one of two things will happen:
- It'll download fairly quickly (less than 60 seconds or so) and you'll see Mix as a separate option on your ribbon
- It'll start taking a long time to download and you'll eventually receive an error. The error is something along the lines of, "0x80091007 - The hash value is not correct". If that happens, you just need to update Visual Studio on your pc. The download can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=48217
KR,
Tod