Play movies in Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 and control how they start and how long they play. As an extra, create buttons to run them.Everybody likes movies. In PowerPoint, take your audience away with a dramatic movie clip that helps get your point across. Or play film of a dynamic speaker. Or, play something fun just to engage people. There's nothing like the entertainment value and flash of a multimedia show.
In this lesson, work with movie files so you know how to insert them, play them, and set other options for them. For visual impact, create buttons that play, pause, and stop a movie.
After completing this lesson you will be able to:
* Insert a movie, start it the way you want, and work with various movie options.
* Play a movie full-screen and keep it from showing on the slide.
* Create buttons to run a movie.
* Ensure that a movie plays when you present.
Play movies in Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003
Note: If you have trouble downloading the sample movie file named "beemovie.mpg," you can get a copy from the Pickup folder.
