Looking for an easy way to liven up your powerpoint presentation? Try embedding a YouTube video into one of your slides! There’s a great YouTube video on how to do this (of course!) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzUxNbi1h4.
However, for those who don’t want to take watch the video (or if you watch the video once but don’t want to watch it again for a refresher) here are the steps you’ll need to follow for embedding a YouTube video in Powerpoint 2007:
First, if you don’t already have it, you’ll need the Developer tab showing. To get it:
- Click on the Windows icon in the upper left corner and then click on Powerpoint Options button in the lower right corner of the menu box.
- Check the box next to “Show Developer tab in the Ribbon” and click OK.
Once you have the Developer tab showing, go the powerpoint slide where you want to embed your video.
Now switch over to YouTube and find the video you want to embed. When you’re at the page where you play the video, you’ll have a box to the right that contains a URL for your video (if you don’t see it, click on the more info link). 
Before you can embed the video’s URL, you need to make a minor change to it. Here’s an example URL from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzUxNbi1h4
You’ll modify the url by removing ‘watch?’ and ‘=’ so that the url ends up looking like this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/4yzUxNbi1h4
Once you have your video’s url, go back to your Powerpoint slide and do the following:
- Select the Developer tab and then click on the “more controls” icon, which looks like a hammer and wrench.
- From the list, select Shockwave Flash Object.
- In your powerpoint slide, make a box as large as you want your video to be shown.
- In the box you’ve created, right click and select Properties.

- In the Properties box, click in the blank box next to movie and paste your YouTube url (with the modifications from above) and make sure the box next to EmbedMovie option is set to False.
- Close the Properties box and then run your slideshow to see the video embedded in your slide.
That’s it!