Sometimes when we make presentation to others, we need to play a video to help us explain our meaning. Then we need to learn how to play video in PowerPoint. Here we will show you three methods to Play Video in PowerPoint.

Solution

1.   play a video directly

This method is to broadcast prepared video files as a movie file directly in the slide, the method is the simplest way.

1 – Open a presentation

2 – If you want to insert a movie, click the Insert-> Movie-> Movie from File.

3 – In the pop-up dialog box, select the prepared video file and click OK button.

4 – Then there will be a dialog box come up for you to choose how the movie will be played, Automatically orWhen Clicked. Choose the one you need.

5 – Select the video and drag it to the appropriate location and size.

During playing, click on the video window, the video will be paused; and if you want to continue playing, click again.

2. Insert the control to play video

This method is to insert a video file as a control to a slide.

1 – Run the PowerPoint program; open a presentation.

2 – Click Microsoft office button, choose PowerPoint Options.

3 – In the dialog box, choose Popular, check Show Develop Tab in Ribbon. And then clik OK button.

4 – Click Developer-> Controls-> more Controls.

5 – In the dialog box appeared, choose Windows Media Player, and then click OK button.

6 – Move the mouse to the editing area, draw an area of suitable size, then the region will automatically be turned into Windows Media Player.

7 – Select the player interface, and then right click it and select Properties from the list.

8 – In the Properties window, we can change the settings, such as Name, Size, Visible and so on. In URL text box, we should type in the movie’s URL address.

9 – During playing we can control the movie by the control bar.

3.   Insert objects

This method is to insert a video file as the object to slide, and the steps are:

1 – Open the slide, click theinsert -> Object command, open the Insert Object dialog box.

2 – Select Create from File option, then click Browse, choose the movie you want to put into the slide.

3 – The object has been inserted as the following.

4 – Select the object, right click, choose hyperlink, then select the address of the movie in your computer.

5 – When present the PowerPoint, click the name of the object so that the movie can be played.

Ever closed a document without saving it? It often leaves you wondering how to recover unsaved word document as not many people know that they could recover their unsaved word documents without using any third party tools. Microsoft Word autosaves the unsaved word file on temporary locations and your file could be recovered from there, here’s how:

For Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Microsoft\Word

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Temp

For Windows Vista or Windows 7:

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles

You’ll find an ASD file there, you could open it in Microsoft Word and it will show you the document that you closed without saving. Some data may get missing from the document but it is better to have it rather than not being able to recover at all.
It is also recommended to enable options to create backup and autosave the document in Microsoft Word. Backup file is created with .wbk extension. To configure this, follow given steps:

• Go to Word Options
• Click the “Advanced” Tab
• Under the “Save” section, you’ll find “Always create backup copy”. Its unhecked by default, check it.

Now Microsoft Word will create a backup copy and you’ll not have to refer to temporary file locations every time you close a word document without saving it.

Microsoft has released Office 2010 Home and Business Click to Run beta version to general public. According to Microsoft:

“This Beta product is delivered via Click-to-Run, a streaming technology for use on high-speed internet connections. If you are not on a high-speed connection, please download Office Professional 2010 Beta instead.”

Microsoft introduces Click-to-Run feature which makes it possible for users to run Microsoft Office 2010 on any existing computer virtually so, when user will get connect to internet it automatically installs the software patches to run different versions of Office simultaneously.

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Chris Green, a Microsoft employee has placed information about the release dates of Microsoft’s next products including Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 (Windows 8 Server) and Office 2012 on his MSDN blogs.
According to Chris:

“The content of this site are my own personal opinions and are not intended to represent my employer’s view. These postings are provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confer no rights.”

Windows 8 Release Date:

RTM: Friday, July 1, 2011
Mainstream Support: Friday, July 1, 2011 – Thursday, July 1, 2016
Extended Support: Friday, July 1, 2016 – Thursday, July 1, 2021

Windows Server 2012 (Windows 8 Server):

RTM: Monday, July 2, 2012
Mainstream Support: Monday, July 2, 2012 – Friday, June 30, 2017
Extended Support: Monday, July 3, 2017 – Friday, July 1, 2022

Office 2012 (Office 15):

RTM: Monday, July 2, 2012
Mainstream Support: Monday, July 2, 2012 – Friday, June 30, 2017
Extended Support: Monday, July 3, 2017 – Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Now you can download a copy of Free Microsoft Office 2010 beta right now and preview the latest version of this Microsoft software. Office Professional 2010 combines all you need to create, edit and share documents from virtually anywhere.

It is available in 2 formats – Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 features new photo, video and text effects for creating stand-out documents and presentations – you can download the Office 2010 beta if you’re a student, running a small business, or using Office at home. The second type Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 is for enterprise and mid-sized business – download if you’re an IT professional or a developer or want to use Office at work. Check out the top 10 benefits of Office 2010 beta.

The Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 suite contains Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010 and OneNote 2010. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 in addition contains InfoPath, Access, SharePoint Workspace and Publisher 2010.

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Download Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010

Check out some of the system requirements before you get started

• Processor – 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher.
• Memory – 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher.
• Hard Disk – 1.5 GB; a portion of the disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
• Display – 1024×768 or higher resolution monitor.
• Operating System – Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit operating system (OS) only) or Windows Vista with SP1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0, Windows Server 2008, or later 32- or 64-bit OS.
• Graphics hardware acceleration – requires DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64 MB or higher video memory.