Microsoft has announced a new feature for PowerPoint users on the web. You can now insert videos from your computers using the PowerPoint web client. This feature is available on other PowerPoint clients including Windows, Mac, and mobile. And by adding the same functionality to the web client, Microsoft ensures that PowerPoint offers core functionality like inserting videos on all platforms.
Following today’s PowerPoint announcement, web users will be able to insert videos stored on their computers in addition to online videos from platforms like YouTube. However, there are some video size limitations. In particular, it supports video files up to 256MB. According to Microsoft, short videos are more effective in capturing your audience’s attention.
Microsoft recommends using .mp4 files in PowerPoint Web, but also supports the following file types: .mov, .wmv, .avi, .m4v, .mkv, .asf, .ts. In an official blog post, Microsoft mentioned that the ability to insert videos into PowerPoint Web was one of the features that many users asked Microsoft to add. If you want to insert videos from your computer into your PowerPoint presentations, you can follow the steps below:
How to insert videos from your computer into PowerPoint Web
Open a new or existing presentation in PowerPoint for the web. Choose Insert > Video > Video From Device. Select the video you want and click Open button to insert it into your slide. Once your video is inserted and displayed on the slide, you can move, resize, or apply shape effects to your video.
However, it should be noted that Microsoft is gradually rolling out this feature. If you don’t see it now, you’ll have to wait a few more days for Microsoft to make it available to you.
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