VIDEO FILE WON'T PLAY

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William - 26 Jan 2008 02:19 GMT

PPt 2003/XP

I have inserted a vidoe file into a slide and selected "automatically play."
The file extension is .mov. It does not, however, play; not automatically,
not if I click on the file in the PPt window nor if I click "Play" in the PPt
window to preview the slide. It does play if I browse to the file location
and just dbl click the file. It comes up in Quick time and plays without a
problem. Ideas

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Jim Gordon MVP - 26 Jan 2008 18:01 GMT

Hi William,

I had the same problem. I right-clicked on the movie in PowerPoint and chose
Custom animation.

I make sure it said "Play" in the actions and then I chose an entrance
effect and set it to play With Previous. That seemed to coax the movie into
playing.

-Jim

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> PPt 2003/XP
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> and just dbl click the file. It comes up in Quick time and plays without a
> problem. Ideas

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VIDEO FILE WON'T PLAY