How to embed a YouTube video into Microsoft PowerPoint in 2026

Do you have a project you’re planning to present using Microsoft PowerPoint? If your answer is “YES”, then I got you covered as I am going to teach you how a YouTube video can be embed into your PowerPoint project.

If the video is embedded following the steps I am about showing you, you can actually play the video while your presentation is going on even without internet connection. For ha purpose, I strongly believe you already have your presentation tools/materials prepared in PowerPoint. Now all you need to do is just to embed he videos(s) into the place I should be.

Before we move on with the procedure, one thing you must keep in mind is ha, the video you will embed should align with what you’re presenting, to make it blend for your audience to have better understanding. In this way, your audience will not feel boring during your presentation.

First thing is to visit youtube.com and locate the video you want to use. After you’re done finding the video, follow the steps below to get it done.

The first tab we’re going to work with is the “DEVELOPER AB”. Most of the times, you’ll not find it there. So to activate the developer tab, click on file at the left hand corner top of your POWERPOINT environment then click options from the drop down menu at the left.

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Next, from the page that will pop up, click “CUSTOMIZE RIBBON”, and scroll down a bit from the small window and tick the developer box. The will make the developer tab active on the PowerPoint environment.

Now that we’ve successfully activated our DEVELOPER TAB, we need to start the main process.

Step 1: Click the more control tab under control, then a small will pop up, scroll down and locate a tab called “SHOCKWAVE FLASH OBJECT” and you need to click it and then hit the OK button at the bottom.

Step 2: Now go to where you want our YouTube video to appear on your PowerPoint project then click drag and drop, next right click inside of the place where you do the click drag and drop, next select “property sheet” and move over to the next level.

Step 3: Remember, after you have clicked the properties option, a list of new options will appear in a small window at the left hand corner of the PowerPoint page. Pay more attention as it requires more understanding to get it done. Find the movie row and paste your customized link in there.

Head over to youtube.com, copy the video link and paste it on notepad.

After you’ve copied the video link, it will look just like this.

Example;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2jj2C4sTY

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Now there is few couple things we need o remove from the video link. First we’ll remove he “WATCH” and the question mark “?”, then secondly, we’ll remove the equal sign “=” and add forward slash “/”. After all of that, our new customized link will look like this.

Example;

www.youtube.com/v/lr2jj2C4sTY

There are other settings that you can play around with, depending on what you want. Options like loop play as slide open and a lot more.

When you are done pasting the video link inside the movie option  like the image above, exist the small pop up window and play our presentation and the video will start playing right inside your presentation.

How to add video to Microsoft PowerPoint

Now that you’ve learned how to embed YouTube video into Microsoft PowerPoint, it is time you also master how to add a video inside your computer into PowerPoint.

The advantage of using a video inside your computer is that you do not need internet connection to play the video during your presentation, and it is much easier when compare to live.

If you do not have the video that needed for the presentation, you can get using smart download tips. As time goes on, I will write an article about it, but for now, let’s focus on adding a video to PowerPoint.

Carefully follow the steps below to add any video inside your computer into Microsoft PowerPoint.

Step 1: open your Microsoft PowerPoint work sheet and select the INSERT tab.

Step 2: when the INSERT tab options display, check the second to the last option and you get to see MOVIE, click it.

Step 3: when you click the MOVIE option under the INSERT tab, two more options will show up asking if you want the video from MOVIE FROM FILE or from MOVIESFROM CLIP ORGANIZER. Select the first option which is MOVIE FROM FILE.

Step 4: next, navigate to where the video you want to use in PowerPoint presentation and double click it.

Note: before you should add your presentation video to your PowerPoint, ensure you edit it and remove any part not needed for the presentation.

Make sure the video align with what your presentation is all about. I hope you get the second method correct, but not still making it right, check video about for further understanding. This is where I will match my break on this very article.

If you get it done using either of the methods above, then big congratulations to you!

hope to see you in our next blog post.