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Enriching a PowerPoint slideshow with charts, images, and videos can make any presentation more engaging.
You can embed a locally stored video file in PowerPoint, but that makes the PowerPoint file very large and can cause performance problems.
A much better approach: Embed a link to a YouTube video instead. This has the same effect as adding a video from your computer, but will add virtually nothing to your PowerPoint's file size.
The exact way to do this depends on which version of PowerPoint you have.
1. Find the video you want to embed on YouTube, and copy the entire URL from your PC or Mac computer's web browser address bar.
2. In PowerPoint, click the "Insert" tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.
3. Click "Video," and in the drop-down, choose "Online video"
4. In the Online Video dialog box, paste the URL of the YouTube video.
You can apply a variety of effects to the video preview using the options in the Video Format tab in the ribbon. These options affect the video preview that appears in your slide before the video plays - they do not affect the video when it plays.
If you have Office 2016, the Online Video dialog box looks a little different, and you need to embed the video differently.
1. Find the video you want to embed on YouTube and copy the embed code that begins with "<iframe." To find that, click "Share," below the video's title, and then click "Embed." Copy the full Embed Video link.
2. In PowerPoint, click the "Insert" tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.
3. Click "Video," and in the drop-down, choose "Online video"
4. In the Online Video dialog box, paste the embed code into the From a Video Embed Code field.
You can also use the Search YouTube search box to find a video to embed directly from PowerPoint.
