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sometimes you may have a video that you
want to play during your presentation
well the good news is you can add the
video directly to one of your slides so
you can share it with the audience
without having to leave PowerPoint to
get started go to the insert tab then
look for the video command on the far
right of the ribbon from here you can
insert a video from the web or one
that's saved to your computer in this
example we're going to choose the second
option
next select the file you want then click
the insert button
and the video will be added to your
presentation if the file size is very
large it might take a minute to finish
uploading just like pictures videos can
be moved and resized any way you want
you can use the sizing handles on the
sides or in the corners and then just
drag and drop to preview the video click
the play button here and the timeline to
the right will start advancing if you
want to jump to a different spot in the
video click anywhere in the timeline
let's go ahead and pause for a second so
we can take a look at some of the
options on the playback tab here you can
control things that have to do with the
way your video is played you can even do
some simple editing say you only want to
use part of the video for example not
the entire thing you can easily create
an excerpt using the trim video command
just look for the little green and red
markers inside the dialogue box you can
click and drag these to change the start
and end times I'm only going to use a
few seconds from the end in this case
when you're done click okay and the
video will be trimmed to the excerpt you
chose you can also add bookmarks to the
video which you can use to jump to
specific points during your presentation
all you have to do is click the timeline
to mark the point you want to use then
click the add bookmark command and a
little circle will appear you can create
as many bookmarks as you want now you
can just click each bookmark when you
want to jump to that part of the video
by default when you're giving your
presentation you do have to click the
video in order to make it play what if
you want it to start automatically as
soon as you get to that slide just come
up here to the video options group
choose automatically from the start menu
and that's all it takes you can also set
the video to play fullscreen loop until
you stop it manually and more finally I
think I'd like to make some changes to
the appearance of my video we can do
that by switching over to the format tab
these options are very similar to what
you get when you insert a picture in
PowerPoint for example watch how easy it
is to apply a different video style
which can add a border and other effects
to the video another thing you can do is
choose a different poster frame that's
the image the audience is going to see
before you start the video in this
example we've already set the video to
play automatically so the poster frame
doesn't really matter it's something to
keep in mind however if you're going to
be playing your video manually so I
think we're all set to preview the video
why don't we start the presentation from
the very beginning there that looks
great as you can see you don't have to
be an expert to add or edit videos in
PowerPoint you just have to know how to
use the tools and you can do all kinds
of interesting things