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It's easy to add a YouTube video to your presentation using PowerPoint 2013. First. open your presentation. click the Insert tab. then click the Video dropdown menu at then top right and select Online

Video. You’ll see two options YouTube and ‘From an Embed Code'. We'll show you how to use the latter option. Open YouTube in your browser. then find your chosen video. Next. click the Share option below the video‘s title, then the Embed tab. and copy the provided link. Now return to PowerPoint. paste this link into the ‘Paste embed code here' field and click the small arrow to the right of the field to insert it into your presentation. Longer videos may take a while. When that’s done. you’ll see a black outline of the video on your slide. Right-click this. click the Start dropdown menu at the top right and select Automatically or On Click.

The former plays the video as soon as your slide begins. whereas the latter requires you to click your slide to begin playing it. By default. the video appears as a small window. To make this bigger, right-click the video outline. then click ‘Size and Position‘ at the bottom. Now tick “Best scale for slide show‘ in the pane on the

right. then click and drag your video to the middle of your slide. Finally. double-click the video to see the YouTube controls.