Movie appearing as icon in presentation

When I insert a movie into a presentaiton it appears in a black box, which is
the actual size that the movie will play in when it runs. How can I get it
so that it apears as an icon, and then opens up and runs. I like the way
that the black box appears, rather than using windows media player, but i
jsut want it to appear as an icon the preentiaon until clicked.

Why don't you create the icon (or put the movie Action Button) on a slide
and set the action settings to link to another (identical-looking) slide
that has the movie set to play automatically?
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

"=?Utf-8?B?ZHdpbGxtYW4=?=" wrote in
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When I insert a movie into a presentaiton it appears in a black box,
which is the actual size that the movie will play in when it runs.
How can I get it so that it apears as an icon, and then opens up and
runs. I like the way that the black box appears, rather than using
windows media player, but i jsut want it to appear as an icon the
preentiaon until clicked.

You can set its Custom Animation settings to animate on click and 'Hide
while not playing'.

"dwillman" wrote in message
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When I insert a movie into a presentaiton it appears in a black box, which
is
the actual size that the movie will play in when it runs. How can I get
it
so that it apears as an icon, and then opens up and runs. I like the way
that the black box appears, rather than using windows media player, but i
jsut want it to appear as an icon the preentiaon until clicked.