How to load a YouTube video into a PowerPoint Presentation

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PowerPoint presentations are considered a real asset to a business meeting, conference, tutorial or training session. If you want to get your point across and communicate effectively, PowerPoint presentation is an ideal way to do that. But, making a good PowerPoint presentation is not an easy task. It requires proper amalgamation of facts, figures and other information to get the desired results. Therefore, witnessing a scenario where you are not able to open a PowerPoint presentation – on which you spent a great deal of time – is quite hard to imagine. If and when you come across such disappointing situations, no need to be panicky. As there are many third-party PowerPoint recovery applications which would assist you in recovering your vital information. They also come to your rescue when you don’t have a valid backup to fall back upon.

As a practical case, when you try and open a PowerPoint presentation 2000 on Microsoft Windows 2000, you may receive the following error message:

“Your system is low on virtual memory. To ensure that Windows runs properly, increase the size of your virtual memory paging file.”

Even if you increase the size of your virtual memory, you may be nagged constantly by the above error.

Cause
The above error may occur when you have a damaged object in your PowerPoint 2000 presentation.

Resolution
To resolve this issue and perform ppt repair, you are required to remove the damaged object by following these steps:

Start PowerPoint 2000 application, and then open the presentation in which you receive the error message.
Your computer may stop responding on the slide with the damaged object and then you will receive the error message
Note the location of the damaged object
Now open the presentation on a Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98-based computer.
Delete the damaged object

If you cannot go ahead with the presentation sans this damaged object, it becomes important for you to reproduce the presentation or go for PowerPoint recovery.

Such third-party tools repairs a corrupt PPT file and recovers all its components successfully. All you need to do is download and install an appropriate and reliable utility on your system.

“Convert PowerPoint to Flash” has been the hot topic on Internet. Put this phrase into Google or Bing, you can easily get a huge number of web links there. Comparing with PowerPoint, Flash has more advantages for circulating presentation online or offline. Flash can be played directly on every computer and Internet, while PowerPoint has many limitations; Flash can only be played and hardly to be edited by others; the size of the converted Flash presentation can be reduced to almost 80%.

So we know “Convert PowerPoint to Flash” is a trend, but how to do that? Should you we do it with PowerPoint? So far Microsoft hasn’t added this function in it. How about doing it with Adobe Flash? If you have the time and if you are familiar with Adobe Flash – then it can be one of your choices! Today let’s see how to convert PowerPoint to Flash with Adobe Flash SC4.

First, save the PowerPoint presentation as WMF files, it applies to PowerPoint 2007.

1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint, click the Office button-> Save As-> Other Formats, then Save As dialog box appears, choose Windows Metafile (*.WMF) in the Save as type drop-down list, and click Save.

Notes: WMF is a vector format, and Flash accepts all vector formats. These WMF files can be resized without losing their resolution.

2. A message window appears asking if you want to export every slide or just the current slide, click the Every Slide button. Then another massage window states the folder where the WMF slides have been saved.

Secondly, import these WMF slides to Adobe Flash CS4.

1. Open Adobe Flash CS4, create a new Flash document. Please select Action Script 2.0.

2. Now choose File-> Import-> Import to Stage.

3. Then the Import dialog box appears; select the folder where the WMF files were saved, and click the first file. Click Open.

4. There will be a message asking if you want to import the entire sequence, click Yes.

5. Then the files are imported to Adobe Flash CS4, go to File-> save-> save as the Flash (.FLA) file.

6. Go to Modify -> Ungroup.

Notes: The ungroup option converts all PowerPoint slide objects as individual components in Flash that can be animated using native Flash options.

Thirdly, export the Flash file as an SWF file from Adobe Flash CS4.

Notes: Before exporting the Flash FLA file to a SWF file, make sure that the WMF file dimension and the Flash movies dimensions are the same.

1. Click on any of the imported images, then click Properties panel, you can see the dimension of this image.

2. Click the Modify -> Document, then Document Properties dialog box appears; change the dimensions to match those of the imported WMF files, and at the same time do remember change the Frame rate to .25 fps. Then click OK.

3. From the File menu, choose Export-> Export Movie.

4. Choose the output folder, and then click OK to export.

Then you can get the SWF files, the PowerPoint presentation is converted to Flash.

Pay Attention:

In this way you can only convert the whole presentation to the static images or bitmaps, all settings of timing, transition and animation cannot be saved. If the presentation contain some multi-media elements, such as music or video, it is obvious that all of them will become just static images or disappeared.

If you think this tutorial is so complicate and verbose that you don’t spend time on it, and also want to prevent dynamic design and multi-media elements in your presentation from being converted to static/bitmap pictures, you can try some professional converting softwares, such as Wondeshare PPT2Flash, Articulate Presenter etc, all of them can as well help you converting PowerPoint to Flash with easier steps.

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PowerPoint presentations are considered as effective communication tools. No corporate meeting, seminar or tutorial is complete without an interesting and enlightening PowerPoint presentation. The ease with which you can add texts, images, graphics, tables etc makes it a wonderful application. However, being a regular user of PowerPoint, you may come across some nagging errors. These errors are generated if a PowerPoint file gets corrupt. Fortunately, there are many workarounds which you can
observe in order to recover PowerPoint file.

As a practical case, you may come across the following error while trying to open a presentation in PowerPoint 2007:

“PowerPoint found unreadable content in Presentation.pptx. Do you want to recover the contents of this presentation? If you trust the source of this presentation, click Yes.”

The unique number of this particular error can also be generated by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I. After doing so, the following number appears along with the message:

400645

Cause
The only possible reason behind this abrupt behavior is that your PowerPoint presentations has got corrupted or damaged.

Resolution
The above issue can be resolved if you try and open your corrupt PowerPoint presentation in an earlier version. If you are still not able to open the presentation, try and insert the slides from the damaged presentation to a new blank presentation file by following the below-mentioned steps:

Go to Home tab, in the Slides group, click New Slide, and then click Reuse Slides.
In Reuse Slides tab, click Open a PowerPoint File
Go to Browse, locate the presentation file that contains the slides you want, and then click Open.

If the above steps fail to recover PowerPoint file, don’t lose hope and think that you have lost your valuable information. Your presentation can be still recovered by using a PowerPoint recovery software.

These third-party applications are designed to extract data from corrupt presentations. Being read-only, they do not modify the original content, therefore can be blindly trusted. Moreover, these easy-to-use tools come equipped with a simple graphical user interface for which you need not require any prior technical knowledge.