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.

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

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.

Congratulations!