How to Insert a YouTube Clip Into PowerPoint

Microsoft Office PowerPoint gives users full control over their presentations with the ability to fully customize individual slides, create transitions and add animations. Another feature is the ability to insert videos, such as a YouTube clip, into a slide. Adding a YouTube clip directly into PowerPoint can help keep your presentation flowing instead of having to minimize it to open the video in a web browser.

Things You'll Need

• PowerPoint 2007

Instructions

1. Open your presentation and click on the "Developer" tab.

2. Select the "More Controls" button from the "Controls" section on the ribbon. This opens a new dialogue window.

3. Select "Shockwave Flash Object" and click "OK."

4. Use your mouse to draw a box across the PowerPoint slide. The box indicates the size and location of the video.

5. Open your preferred web browser and navigate to the YouTube video that you'd like to use for your presentation. Copy the information from the "URL" text box, which is located to the right of the video in the information pane.

6. Click on the box that you created on your PowerPoint slide to highlight it.

7. Right-click on the box and select "Properties."

8. Paste the URL into the text box next to "Movie." Modify the URL by deleting "watch?" and replacing "=" with "/." You can now view the video in your presentation.

Tips & Warnings

• You must be connected to the Internet in order to view the YouTube clip.

References

• Microsoft.com: Play an Adobe Macromedia Animation in a Presentation