Adding Video to a Slide

You can also add video to your PowerPoint slides. You can insert online videos, such as a YouTube video, or you can insert video that you have created. PowerPoint 2013 has increased the number of options for inserting online video. The possibilities now include video files stored on your SkyDrive (which are not really online videos—they are just stored online instead of your computer), videos from YouTube, and any online video that has a video embed code. You paste the embed code onto the slide, and the code serves as the conduit to the video content on the Web.

Working with video content in PowerPoint was a rather dicey experience in previous versions of PowerPoint (including PowerPoint 2010). PowerPoint 2013 supports ...

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