Title: Add closed captions or subtitles to media in PowerPoint - PowerPoint
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Add closed captions or subtitles to media in PowerPoint
Requirements for this feature
Check whether Office was installed using Click-to-Run or MSI
Create closed captions
Add closed captions to a video
Remove closed captions from a video
Add captions to an audio file
What do you want to do?
Download and install STAMP
Step 1: Confirm your version of Microsoft Office
Step 2: Download STAMP
Step 3: Install STAMP
Keyboard shortcuts
Create new captions using the Caption Editor
5 Update captions
Import captions as a TTML file
Edit or delete captions in the Caption Editor
Align, show, hide, or remove captions
Align captions if you move or resize your video
Hide or show captions in the presentation
Remove captions from the presentation

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Add closed captions or subtitles to media in PowerPoint
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In PowerPoint for Windows, you can add closed captions or subtitles to videos and audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including people with hearing disabilities and those who speak languages other than the one in your video. To read about best practices for accessibility, see Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible. Newer versions Office 2010-2013
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Beginning with version 2016, PowerPoint has a new, simpler format for caption files, called WebVTT. The video player in the following versions of PowerPoint can show those captions when you play the video: PowerPoint 2016
PowerPoint 2019
PowerPoint for Microsoft 365
The closed captions are stored in a text-based file with a .vtt filename extension. You can create a closed caption file on your own or use a caption-creation tool. To search online for available tools and detailed instructions, type "create vtt file" in your search engine. For instructions on showing captions when watching a video in these versions of PowerPoint, see Turn on closed captions or subtitles. Requirements for this feature
In Office 2016, the availability of the closed-captioning feature depends on the way Office was installed.