Add a movie to a Power Point 2007 Presentation
To prevent possible problems with links, it is a good idea to copy the movies into the same folder as your
presentation before you add the movies to your presentation.
1.
In Normal view, click the slide to which you want to add a movie or animated GIF file.
2.
On the Insert tab, in the Media Clips group, click the arrow under Movie.
3.
Do one of the following:

Click Movie from File, locate the folder that contains the file, and then double-click the file
that you want to add.
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Click Movie from Clip Organizer, scroll to find the clip that you want in the Clip Art task
pane, and then click it to add it to the slide.
TIP You can preview a clip before you add it to your presentation. In the Clip Art task pane, in the
Results box that displays the available clips, move your mouse pointer over the clip's thumbnail, click the
arrow that appears, and then click Preview/Properties.
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Choose between Automatically or When Clicked
When you insert a movie, you are prompted with a message asking how you want the movie to start: automatically
(Automatically) or when you click the movie (When Clicked).
To automatically start the movie when you show the slide, click Automatically. You can pause a movie
while it is playing by clicking it. To continue playing the movie, click it again.
To manually start the movie when you click it on the slide, click When Clicked.
When you insert a movie, a pause trigger effect is added. It's called a trigger because you have to click something
specific within the slide to play the movie. For example, in a presentation, you click the movie frame to pause the
movie and click it again to resume playing it.
NOTE You can change this option at any time. Click the movie, and then under Movie Tools, click the Options tab.
In the Movie Options group, select the option that you want from the Play Movie list.
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Play a movie full screen
You can play a movie so that it fills up the entire screen when you are giving your presentation, instead of playing it
as part of a slide in your presentation. This is called playing a movie full screen. Depending on the resolution of your
original movie file, it might appear distorted when it is enlarged. You will always want to preview your movie, so that if
the movie appears distorted or blurry, you can undo the full screen option. Generally, a small movie that is set to play
full screen will not look good when it is enlarged.
If you set the movie to be displayed full screen and it is also set to start automatically, you can drag the movie frame
off the slide into the gray area so that it will not be visible on the slide or flash briefly before the movie goes to full
screen.
1.
In Normal view, click the movie frame on the slide that you want to play full screen.
2.
Under Movie Tools, on the Options tab, in the Movie Options group, select the Play Full Screen check
box.
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Preview a movie
In Normal view, click the movie frame on the slide that you want to preview.
Under Movie Tools, on the Options tab, in the Play group, click Preview.
Tips
You can also preview a movie in Normal view by double-clicking it.
If your movie or animated GIF file is part of a custom animation sequence, to preview it, click Play in the
Custom Animation task pane.
If there are multiple slides in your presentation, use the title placeholder to identify the slide that contains
the movie frame, so you know which slide to click and play.
If you inserted a movie as an object to play in Microsoft Windows Media Player, you may have to click the
Stop, Start, and Pause buttons in Windows Media Player to control your movie.
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Play a movie across several slides
You may want the movie that you inserted in a presentation to continue to play when you advance to the next slide.
To do this, you need to specify when the movie should stop playing. Otherwise, it will stop the next time that you click
the mouse.
NOTE You must have a play effect to do the following procedure. If you already inserted the movie and chose When
Clicked when prompted, you can switch to Automatically to add a play effect.
Switch from When Clicked to Automatically
1.
2.
In Normal view, click the movie.
Under Movie Tools, on the Options tab, in the Movie Options group, in the Play Movie list, click
Automatically.
Keep the movie playing across slides
NOTE
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2.
3.
This procedure plays the movie once for the length of the movie file. It does not play the movie repeatedly.
In Normal view, click the movie frame on the slide.
Under Movie Tools, on the Options tab, in the Movie Options group, in the Play Movie list, click Play
across slides.
On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation.
4.
In the Custom Animation task pane, click the line that represents the movie play effect (the line with the
triangle), click the arrow, and then click Effect Options.
5.
To keep the movie playing for several slides, under Stop playing, click After, and then set the total
number of slides that the file should play across.
TIP If you set this value to 999 (the maximum), and the movie is long enough, it will play for the entire
presentation, and you won't need to adjust the value if you add or delete slides from your presentation.
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Play a movie continuously throughout a presentation
You may want a movie to play for the duration of a presentation or to keep playing until you stop it. If the length of the
movie is shorter than the length of the presentation, you can set the movie to start again after it finishes, so that some
portion of the movie is always playing during your presentation.
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2.
In Normal view, click the movie frame on the slide.
Under Movie Tools, on the Options tab, in the Movie Options group, select the Loop Until Stopped
check box.
TIP
When you loop a movie, it plays repeatedly until you click it. You can also play a movie across multiple slides.
NOTES
If your movie does not play, see the article My movie doesn't play to troubleshoot.
You can also delete a movie.