When you embed a video in PowerPoint, youre simply telling PowerPoint the location of the media on your computer.

PowerPoint then references that video on the designated slide.

Note that you need to do this before embedding the video in your presentation.

Name it something memorable, and then store your presentation and video file in this folder.

To do this, navigate to the slide where you want to embed the video; then go to the Media group of the Insert tab and select Video.

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From the drop-down menu that appears, select Video on My PC if youre using a Windows machine or Movie from File if youre on a Mac.

Navigate to the location of the video, select it, and click Insert.

Once the recipient receives, unzips, and opens the presentation, the embedded video will be playable.

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