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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 middle in this case
when you're done click OK 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 wanted 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