To enable screen recording feature in PowerPoint, your Microsoft Office must be 2013 and above. If your Microsoft office is 2010 or 2007; this screen recording feature in not available. This post will help you enable Insert Screen Recording feature that you get under INSERT tab of PowerPoint.

PowerPoint Screen Recording

This is completely new feature in latest versions of Microsoft Office, that you get with PowerPoint. This let you record your computer screen with audio and mouse pointer. Also, let you save your recording as mp4 format on your system and integrate in your PowerPoint presentation.

If you are missing Screen Recording feature off your PowerPoint; because you might have installed Microsoft Office from an offline installer like from an old DVD, Pen Drive.

When Microsoft Office is installed from online installer; you get all the features.

Enable Screen Recording in PowerPoint

To enable Screen Recording in PowerPoint; install Microsoft Office updates. I am going quickly going to show you how to install Microsoft Office updates on Windows 10. But you can install MS Office updates on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, following these steps.

1. Click Windows 10 Start Menu
2. Click Settings Gear
3. Click Updates & Security
4. Click Advanced Options
5. Turn on ‘Download & Install Other Microsoft Products Updates’
6. Backspace/Click ‘Back’ button on the top left
7. Click Check for Updates
8. Download & Install Updates
9. Reboot System
10. Launch PowerPoint
11. From Insert tab, launch Screen Recording

Install Microsoft Office Updates

This is how you can install Microsoft Office updates on Windows 10.

1. Click Windows 10 Start Menu
2. Click Settings Gear
3. Click Updates & Security
4. Click Advanced Options
5. Turn on ‘Download & Install Other Microsoft Products Updates’
6. Backspace/Click ‘Back’ button on the top left
7. Click Check for Updates
8. Download & Install Updates
9. Reboot System

This tutorial will help you recover lost/unsaved Microsoft Office PowerPoint files. In case of PowerPoint accidentally closed down or you deleted the PPT file and now you want to recover it. This page may help you recover your hours of PowerPoint work done.

Technology Disclaimer: I will be demonstrating the PowerPoint recovery process on Windows 10 custom built workstation. If you are using Windows OS desktop, laptop, workstation, surface pro, and Windows tablet, you should not have any issue following this step by step instruction.

However, if you using Mac OS, then I assume that you are smart enough to navigate through the PowerPoint menu options to replicate the same on your system.

Important: I am using MS Office 2013. So, I assume that you have at least MS Office 2013. Office 2010 and below don’t have autosave and auto-recovery options at all.

Now, let us recover your PowerPoint lost, unsaved, accidentally closed, and deleted files.

Launch Office PowerPoint

There are many ways you can launch application on Windows system. I am going to use the Start Menu to find the application and launch it.

Create a blank presentation

Create a blank presentation, if you are already in the process of designing your PowerPoint Presentation. Please stay there to follow the next step.

Click “FILE” for PowerPoint Options

Click “FILE” on the left for the FILE drop-down menu.

Click ‘Options’ for PowerPoint Options Windows

Upon clicking the ‘FILE’ tab/button, you’ll be presented with FILE drop-down menu. Now, scroll down and look for ‘Options’ and click it.

PowerPoint Windows – Save Options

Upon clicking “Options” you’ll be presented with PowerPoint Options window like shown below, now, look for ‘Save’ on the left and click ‘Save’.

Locate ‘AutoRecovery file location’ and copy recovery folder path. Look at the picture below for more clarity.

On my Windows 10, the PowerPoint Recovery folder path looks like this.

C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\PowerPoint\

Navigate to the recovery folder

Let’s navigate to the PowerPoint recovery folder, with the help of Windows Explorer. To open Windows Explorer, you can handy shortcut [ Windows key + e ].

Paste in the recovery folder path

Locate the > Quick Access > the URI field

Paste in the PowerPoint Recovery folder location path

Find your lost/unsaved/deleted PowerPoint Files

Here you can find your lost, unsaved, deleted, and accidentally closed PowerPoint files. Once you find them, double click to open them, then you must save as them in a different folder of your choice and open them from newly saved folder instead.

I hope, this tutorial helped you in recovering your PowerPoint files.

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