In PowerPoint, YouTube videos are the only online videos you can insert at this time.
If you'd like PowerPoint to support videos from other channels, please send us your feedback.
Error: "PowerPoint can't insert a video from this embed code"
Don't use an embed code that starts with http; it won't work. To work correctly, the code you use to embed your video must begin with <iframe and end with </iframe>:
See the following procedure for instructions on copying the embed code from YouTube.
Embed a YouTube video (the only video site PowerPoint supports)
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Find the YouTube video that you want to insert.
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Below the video frame, click Share, and then below that, click Embed.
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Right-click the embed code, and click Copy.
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In PowerPoint, on the Insert tab of the ribbon, do one of the following:
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In PowerPoint 2013 or 2016, click Video > Online Video. Right-click the From a Video Embed Code box, click Paste to paste the embed code, and click the arrow.
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In PowerPoint 2010, the ability to play a YouTube video is broken, as explained in the section below. You can insert a video by following the instructions in the next paragraph, but PowerPoint 2010 isn't able to play the video.
In PowerPoint 2010, click Video > Video from Web Site. Right-click the Insert Video From Web Site box, click Paste to paste the embed code, and click Insert.
Important: If you see Video from Web Site in the drop-down menu but it is disabled or grayed out, make sure you have Adobe Shockwave Player installed.
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On the Slide Show tab, click From Current Slide to view and play the embedded video. You may need to click the video placeholder to get the preview image to appear the first time.
If your video doesn’t embed correctly, read Requirements for using the PowerPoint YouTube feature and ensure that you have the necessary updates installed for your version of PowerPoint.
Error: Flash-embedded videos are no longer supported
YouTube videos on PowerPoint 2010 have stopped working. Google recently (September 2017) made a change where it has retired the Flash Player infrastructure that PowerPoint 2010 depends upon for playing YouTube videos.
PowerPoint 2013 and PowerPoint 2016 are based on the HTML5 video playback infrastructure (instead of Flash Player) and are thus unaffected for the most part.
We are aware of the issue in PowerPoint 2010 and are investigating what we can do, but practically speaking, the most effective method of resolving this issue quickly is moving to a newer version of Office (2013 or 2016). You can also use PowerPoint Online, which is free and can be used with a Microsoft account (Hotmail, outlook.com, live.com). PowerPoint Online allows for the insertion and playing of YouTube videos.
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Step 1: Get the right version of Internet Explorer
PowerPoint requires the video-playing technology in Internet Explorer to play an online video that's embedded on a slide.
Get or update Internet Explorer
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Use Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Window 10.
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Use Internet Explorer 9, Service Pack 2 on Windows Vista.
Internet Explorer itself isn't required to be open during the playing of the video; PowerPoint simply uses its underlying technology when playing the video.
Insert a web page instead of a video
Maybe the information you want to show is on a web page, but it's not a video. If the web page has an address that begins with HTTPS, you can insert that page on a slide (in PowerPoint 2013 or PowerPoint 2016). See Add a live web page to a slide for instructions.
Add a live web page to a slide
When you insert a live web page in a presentation by using the Web Viewer app, it appears in your presentation the same way it would if you opened it in a browser. It is not a picture of the web page, but the page itself inside your presentation. If you click a link on the page, you will navigate to the new destination, displayed inside the frame of the slide.
For your protection, only secure web pages that are accessed by using the HTTPS protocol (rather than HTTP) can be inserted into a presentation.
Add a live web page to a slide
You're inserting a live web page, not a picture of a page. So you must be connected to the internet when you present the slide to others, or the web page won't show up on your slide.
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Go to the slide where you want to embed a web page.
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On the Insert tab of the toolbar ribbon, select Store.
The Office Add-ins dialog box appears.
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In the Office Add-ins dialog box , in the Search box, type web viewer and then press Enter.
The Web Viewer add-in appears in the results list.
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Click the Add button for Web Viewer to insert the viewer on your slide.
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On your slide, under Please enter the URL below, select the sample link in the box to the right of https://, and type or paste the link of the web page you want to insert.
Important Don't include https:// in what you type or paste in that box. The web viewer already accounts for that part of the web-page address.
Example: In the box, type www.wikipedia.org/, not https://www.wikipedia.org/.
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In the lower-right corner of the Web Viewer frame, click Preview to verify that the page you want to insert appears correctly.
What if I get an error?
If you specified a link for a web page that is not secure, you will see this error after you click Preview:
This content cannot be displayed in a frame
For your protection, PowerPoint won't allow you to insert a web page by using http://. It only allow https://, which is a more secure web-browsing protocol. The error message means that you need to try again using https:// as the prefix of the web address.
Many—but not all—web pages allow secure web access. For example, you can view the Bing home page in your browser with the address http://www.bing.com and you can also view it securely with the address https://www.bing.com. But not all pages accessible via HTTP have secure versions accessible via HTTPS.
If you find a web page that you want to insert in a presentation, check to see whether a secure version of it is accessible in a web browser: Replace HTTP with HTTPS in the address. If you do that and the web page appears correctly in the browser, then the page is securely accessible. You can insert it in your presentation inside the Web Viewer app.