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Adding Movies to PowerPoint
By choosing Insert > Movies and Sounds > Movie from File you can insert a movie into a PowerPoint slide.  The movie will like a picture in your slide (first frame of the movie). 

     !A Word of Caution!
When you insert a movie or sound into a slide it is only a link--links can be broken easily if you take your PowerPoint off the computer you saved it on.  For this reason it's a good idea to place your PowerPoint file, sounds, and movies into a File Folder before you insert them.  This way you can save the entire folder without breaking the links.

Afterwards, a window will open giving you the choice to play the move automatically within the slideshow or only when you click it with the mouse.