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How to Link a YouTube Video to Your PowerPoint Presentation

Text hyperlink:o Write the text you would like to use as a link onto your slide. (This is not

necessary – you can just have it display the Web address on the slide, but the former looks more finished.)

o Highlight the text, and then click the “Insert” tab and the “Hyperlink” button.

o Find the Web address of the video you would like to show.

You can also use this method to link to any Web site on the Internet, e.g.: OWL at Purdue to show your students MLA format. It’s just especially helpful when linking to media that you would otherwise have to open another program to use.

o Copy the Web address, and then paste it in the “Address” box in PowerPoint, then

click “OK.” You will only be able to make sure the link worked by using the “Slide Show” function in PowerPoint.

Link with clip art:o This allows you to use a piece of clip art provided by PowerPoint to link to a

video or somewhere on the Internet. First, click the “Insert” tab and then the “Clip Art” button, and use the search function to choose the clip art you would like to use.

o Once the clip art is inserted into the PowerPoint slide, click on it (this is like

highlighting text), and then click the “Insert” tab and “Hyperlink” button. o Follow the same directions as above to find the Web address that you would like

to link to. Once again, make sure you are in “Slide Show” before trying to click the link from the clip art to the YouTube video.

Link with a photo:o This is similar to linking with a piece of clip art, only now, you must have a photo

that you would like to use in your PowerPoint slide saved to the hard drive of your computer (or your flash-drive). Once you have the picture, go to “Insert” and “Picture” to add the photo to your PowerPoint slide.

o Click “Insert” and “Hyperlink,” and then follow the previous directions for

finding the Web address of the YouTube video. Double-check with “Slide Show” that you have correctly linked from the picture to the Web address.

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Creating a photo of a slide from a YouTube video:o The first thing you want to do here is create a picture that you can then use to link

to your YouTube video. The difference is that you will be starting with a screen capture of the video itself. (You can also use this function to screen capture anything on your computer screen.) Say I have a YouTube video about cats, and I would like to freeze an image of a black cat and use that as a photo. I need to locate the clip from the video that I like, and then hit the “Print Scrn” button on my keyboard. This will not actually print anything from your computer.

o My next step is to turn the screen capture into a picture that I can upload to

PowerPoint. I will need to click the “Start” button on my computer screen, and then “Programs,” “Accessories,” and finally, open the “Paint” program.

o It is very important before you paste your screen capture into Paint that you click

the dotted line rectangle in the toolbar, followed by the transparent background icon. Here is a picture of how your toolbar should look when you have done this correctly:

o Next, click the “Edit” tab, and then click “Paste.” This will paste the entire

screen that you have taken a picture of into Paint. o Your next step is to crop out only what you would like to use as your picture.

To do that, click the rectangle one more time so that the edges of your screen capture are no longer highlighted. This will allow you to highlight specific parts of the picture using the arrows on its sides.

To return to the cat video example, I only want a picture of the black cat, so I would highlight only the black cat. Once it’s highlighted, I will return to the “Edit” tab and click “Cut.”

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o Everything that has been cut must eventually be pasted, of course, but first,

you will want a fresh Paint screen to use. Go to the “File” tab and click “New.” When you are asked whether you want to save the file, click “no,” since this is not your finished product.

o Go back to “Edit” and click “Paste.” This should paste only the portion of the

image that you have previously cropped or “cut” from the screen capture. o Next, save your picture by going to “File” and clicking “Save As.” Protip: The

“type” of picture that is least pixilated and tends to hold up best ends in .PNG, though you can also use .JPG or .GIF.

o Once you have saved your photo to your desktop (or flash-drive), you are

ready to paste it into your PowerPoint presentation, and then add a hypertext link from it to your original YouTube video. Follow the directions for “Link With a Photo” to do this, and voila!