PowerPoint 2013: Record inking during slide show

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Hi, everyone. At my work, we have Office 2013 Professional Plus installed.

On some computers, I can choose Record Slide Show > Record From beginning, and the dialog box offers to capture Narrations, ink and laser pointer

On other computers, I only get the offer to capture Narrations and Laser Pointer (no ink)

I cannot find anything in the Options that would toggle this feature on and off. I want to be able to capture the live inking (writing on the screen) during narration/recording.

Any ideas?

Not sure why it would matter, but the computers where the Ink option DOES appear are running Windows 8.1; the ones where the inking does NOT appear are running Windows 7. I know this feature was available as far back as PowerPoint 2007, so I have difficulty believing this is an operating system issue.

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Posting an answer in case others are looking for this. Finally figured out the correct Google question to come up with an answer…

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Record-your-slide-show-in-PowerPoint-2013-9d136e4a-9717-49ad-876e-77aeca9c17eb?ui=en-US&rs=en-001&ad=US

Apparently the functionality is linked to an update, which is currently suspended. Some computers have been updated while others have not.

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Just for info. the required update (KB2920732) has been withdrawn because it totally killed PowerPoint in the RT version! Since this is obviously a serious problem my guess is it will soon be fixed.

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Today, I updated my copy of Office (University) at home (which did NOT have the inking functionality) and now I have it. Not sure why, but I’m happy!

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The suspended update (which broke RT versions) has now been fixed and reissued.

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