Voice Recording on Microsoft Word for Mac

We are about to have our first midterm and frankly.. I havn’t been studying as much as I want to. So right now I was very stressed out because I have about 7 weeks worth of notes + lab practicals needing to be studied. As I’m looking at my notes week by week I realize something. I don’t have to study as much as I thought I would. In the past weeks all the information as been so repetitive that I know about 70%. I was reading pages and pages of my notes and it seems that I know how everything works! I also figured out that I learned so much since this first semester started. On my notes I had so much marking saying ” check page, read this, research this” which meant at the time I had no IDEA what I was doing.

So when I go over my notes I don’t even have to follow what I wrote in my notes because I knew the answer to all the blank notes.

Point of this POST? If you are a student for respiratory therapy, studying is very intense but I suggest you buy a macbook or old ibook. Currently I’m using an iBook g4 and it has this software. It is microsoft word 2004. The reason why I specifically told you guys about buying an apple laptop is because there is a very special feature in the ibook / macbook with microsoft word. It allows you to record while you type up your notes. It is so useful because

1) you are able to record the instructors voice
2) you are typing about 50% + of what they say
3) If you couldn’t type all the information at the moment you can go back and listen.

So lets say I’m typing this post as my notes. The instructor says ” IPPB is _____” Then your friend next to you gets your attention and you couldn’t type what IPPB stands for and didn’t hear it you can go back. All you do is click on the paragraph of notes next to where you typed & the microsoft word software will skip everything and bring you to where your instructor says” IPPB is ___” Obviously you will hear it again and can go back and retype up the note.

Directions for Microsoft Word 2004 for Voice Recording.

1) Open Microsoft Word
2) Go to View > Notebook Layout
3) Now you should see a Small Microphone under Tools and Table (Don’t click tools or table click the microphone under it)
4) A taskbar should open and it will have “standby”
5) Click the Red circle to record.

REMEMBER ONE THING: DON’T FORGET TO CLICK RECORD!!. There has been times where I thought I was recording but it was on standby

Good Luck studying!!

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