Microsoft PowerPoint for Web can now upload local videos up to 256 MB

Microsoft has introduced an important new feature for its PowerPoint for Web users. Starting today, all users of PowerPoint for the Web will be able to upload and save local videos to their PowerPoint presentations.

In a blog post, Microsoft noted that while users can already add videos to PowerPoint from online sources such as YouTube, Vimeo, etc., this new feature will allow those who make their own videos to upload local videos from their computers to their PowerPoint for the Web files.

Using this new feature is very simple, here are the steps:

Open a new or existing PowerPoint file for the web

Click on the Insert menu

Then click on the Video option

Then click on the Video option on your device

You can select the video you want to add to the PowerPoint file that is stored on your local computer

Finally, click the Open button to place the video in the slide

After placing the video in the PowerPoint slideshow, users can move or resize the video to their liking, and even apply shape effects.

Although this new feature supports a variety of video formats (.mov, .wmv, .avi, .m4v, .mkv, .asf, .ts, etc.), Microsoft recommends PowerPoint for Web users to upload videos using .mp4 format for best quality, and this feature caps the video size at 256 MB.