Including Movies

Adding movies to your presentation can add a professional touch. Most people use them to show demonstrations, but you can also use them to train others or show a speaker who could not attend an actual event. Movie files are always linked to your presentation, never embedded. The default is to show movies on just part of your slide, but you can change this default to show the movie in full-screen mode. Be careful with this option, though—it often results in blurry or distorted movies depending on the resolution involved.

Animated GIF files are sometimes referred to as movies, but technically they are not. As a result, not all movie options are available for GIF files, so keep that in mind if you run into trouble working with these ...

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