How to let video play manually in powerpoint?
I don’t know how to work with PowerPoint, this is my first time working with it. I have insert a video in the PowerPoint but when I preview the slide the video automatically plays, how do I not let it automatically play? I saw that some of my classmates did a PowerPoint with video but to start the video they clicked on it, that is what I want.
P.S The video is downloaded from YouTube, so that when I don’t have internet at my school I can still play the video in the PowerPoint.
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When you insert the video, Powerpoint should give you the option to have it automatically play or not.
(I can’t give you a more precise answer, even though I wish I could, because I’m running Powerpoint for Mac, which is very different from Powerpoint for Windows!)
IIRC, however, there should be something in the “pane” on the right-hand side of the screen that has to do with “Custom Animation” (might have to choose from a pull-down at the top). There’s a button or two on there that fiddle with the settings of the object in question. (Also, right-clicking and selecting, um, “Object Settings” (??) should give you a window that will allow you to fiddle with it.)
Wow, I’m extraordinarily unhelpful, aren’t I?
Let me know if you have any problem.
There are basically two ways to insert a video, first as a link and second as activeX control. Link (hyperlink) will work as long as file is there on your hard drive (i.e. on the specified path). If you want to email it to somebody with video embedded in it, try activeX control.
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