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or, for all 3 options for working with video in PowerPoint, check out Cliotech. For your convenience, I listed the options below:

Hyperlinking
–Save video or video segment to your computer
–In PowerPoint, type text and highlight a word or phrase (e.g., “here”)
–Insert > Hyperlink > Locate your video and click OK

When viewing the slide show, you can click on “here” and it will launch the video in your media player or stream it from the Internet.

Embedding
–Save video or video segment to your computer
–Insert > Movies and Sounds > Movie from File > Locate your video and click OK
–Do you want to play it automatically or when clicked? Totally up to you
-When viewing the slide show, you can click on the image and the video will start playing in the PPT itself. Click again to pause.

Really Embedding
–Save video or video segment to your computer
–View > Toolbars > Control Toolbox
–Click on More Controls (hammer and wrench icon)
–Scroll down to Windows Media Player
–Draw a box that will become the image below
–Right click on the media player > Select properties
–Click on the empty cell next to “Custom”
–Browse for your video > Click OK
–In slideshow mode, you will be able to play the video embedded with controls like rewind, fast forward, sound, etc.
–You can also right click to open more menu controls, like View > Full Screen

By Dustin Jacobsen on Sep 7, 2007