Here are the steps to link to the video from a PowerPoint slide and have it play when the link is activated. Step 1: Go to the web page on vimeo.com or youtube.com with the video you want to insert. Step 2: Take a screen capture of the video page (use PrtScrn in Windows or Cmd+Shift+3 in Mac). Insert the screen capture on your slide. While PowerPoint 2016 for Mac itself doesn't support inserting an online video, it takes just a few steps to use an add-in that lets you insert a video from YouTube or Vimeo. Insert an online video with the Web Video Player add-in. In your presentation, open a new slide. (The video takes up the full slide, so it's best to start fresh.).
Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.Almost unnoticed among the August 2018 updates are some new options for linking online videos into PowerPoint 2016 and PowerPoint 2013 presentations to Vimeo and LinkedIn as well as YouTube.Until now, only YouTube videos were supported.Now it’s now possible to link to videos from. LinkedIn SlideShare. YouTube – what Microsoft calls their ‘old embed code’.These updates have been or probably will be automatically applied to your Office 2016 or Office 2013. For PowerPoint 2016 for Microsoft PowerPoint 2013Here’s how to get the embed code you need from each of the sites. In shortPowerPoint needs the ’embed’ code not the standard web link or url from the browser address bar.Copy the embed code (usually starting with.