How to record the PC screen with the help of PowerPoint in a few steps

In its day we saw how you could record the screen of our PC with Windows 10 with a free application. It is the alternative to the Xbox toolbar for those of us who have computers that do not have the necessary characteristics to record the screen.

And another option that exists to record the screen of our PC is to use PowerPoint, an easy-to-use system that allows us to have everything that happens on our computer in MP4 format screen as a video. These are the necessary steps to achieve it.

Use PowerPoint to record screen

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Recording PC screen using PowerPoint is very easy. We only have to follow a few steps after opening the application. Among the options on the screen we choose Blank Presentation and once inside we have to choose the option Insertof the top bar."

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With the Insert menu already open, we must go to the right side of the bar and look for the option Screen recording on which we are going to press."

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PowerPoint will be minimized and we will see the desktop cleared with a series of controls in the upper area. Of all of them we choose Select screen area and we will mark the area (all or part) of the screen that we want to record."

All we have to do is click on the left button of the control panel to start recording. In addition, you can also choose to include the audio and record the mouse pointer.

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A countdown starts and when we want to stop the process, we press the button Stop or the key combination Windows + Shift + Q."

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The image is inserted into PowerPoint, which again occupies the entire screen and at that point we only have to click with the right mouse button and choose Save multimedia asfrom the context menu options."

The video with what happens on the screen is recorded in MP4 format in the folder that we have chosen when we have clicked on save .

Via | ONMSFT