PowerPoint 2007

YouTube Videos
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HOW TO GUIDE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO

PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEOS IN A PRESENTATION

Play YouTube videos in PowerPoint 2007 without having to go to the webpage. However, you
do need a live Internet connection for the movie to play. The need thing is that the movie will
play immediately when you click on the YouTube movie in a presentation without waiting for
the webpage to load. This will be as smooth as you have the movie within the presentation. You
can follow these steps to create a YouTube movie to play smoothly:
step 1. Click on the Developer Tab on the Ribbon within a presentation * if you do not see the
Developer Tab, the back of this page has the steps to enable the Developer Tab

step 2. Click this icon on the Controls group. The More Controls dialog box will launch
step 3. Click Shockwave flash objects
step 4. Click OK
step 5. Draw a box in the slide where you want
the YouTube video to play
step 6. Go to the movie online on the YouTube website
step 7. Select the URL address of the YouTube movie you want to play in your presentation
step 8. Copy the URL address when you highlight the address and click CTRL C
step 9. Click on the box in the presentation
step 10. Right-Click on the box in the presentation
step 11. Click Properties
step 12. Paste CTRL V the address in the “movie” space. See Screenshot at the back of this
page
step 13. Delete “watch?” within the URL address of the YouTube movie
step 14. Replace “=” equal sign with a forward slash “/” in the URL address of the YouTube
movie

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 step 15. Turn the loop to false if you do not want the movie to loop
step 16. Turn the Playing to false if you want to click on the movie to play
step 17. Type 355 in the Height line and 425 in the Width line
step 18. Close the ShockwaveFlash dialog box
step 19. Play the YouTube movie

Type 355 in the Height line

Scroll down and type 425 in the Width line

Change the loop to False

Paste the YouTube URL here

Change True to False if you do not want the movie to play automatically

If you do not see the Developers Tab on the Ribbon

Click on the Office Tab

Click the PowerPoint Options button, located next to the Exit PowerPoint button

Click on Popular

Check the Show Developer tab in the

Click OK and you will now see the Developers Tab on the Ribbon

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