Powerpoint 2010 video from website option not available

Anonymous
2010-07-28T05:44:58+00:00

I am trying to embed a video from youtube directly into my powerpoint presentation.  Under the insert tab and video pull down list, I have the option of "video from file" and "video from clipart", but the option of "video from website" is there in the pull down menu but I can't "click" it.  The option is "greyed out"  please help ty.

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Anonymous
2010-07-28T12:00:52+00:00

Requirements for online video sites (Youtube, etc.) are as follows:

Flash Player 10+

Windows Media Player 10 or higher 

32-bit Office 2010

Does your system meet all of those requirements?


-- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-07-20T13:01:29+00:00

    I have  all of that, but its still greyed out.... Does it matter that I am running it on parallels. Can you help? I cant figure out what to do. Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-03-23T15:54:03+00:00

    My issue is similar to the issue posted, but different.  I do have the "Insert video from website" enabled, but the embed code is said to be incorrect:  "PowerPoint cannot insert a video from this embed code.  Verify that the embed code is correct, and then try again."

    I followed the Help instructions on how to use this feature, using YouTube as a test, and got the same message.  The code has the <iframe> tag, etc.  I'm using Office 2010 32-bit, with the newest version of Flash (10.2) on an XP platform.

    Any thoughts or solutions?

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-27T21:44:50+00:00

    Good to know, thank you.


    -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com

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