In the Address bar, paste the address of the URL.From the Insert tab click on Hyperlink (or right click and choose Insert Hyperlink).Move to the appropriate slide, delete the black square and add what you wish to be the clickable link (eg type some text, a screen shot or a picture).If you do not know the address of the original YouTube, click broken link and write down the address. Go to the site which has your chosen video and copy the address/URL.Recreating the link – as a Hyperlink (PowerPoint 2010 or 2013*) Alternatively you can use Microsoft's direct replacement and add it again as a YouTube item using PowerPoint 2013. This is recommended as being more future proof and can be done in both Office 20 although is not as slick. You can create a Hyperlink to jump out of PowerPoint into Internet Explorer and run the video there (single click from slide show). Videos which are accessed via a Hyperlink or Shockwave Objects will continue to work in Office 2013 (Shockwave Objects will only be displayed as a white square with a cross until the presentation is run).Ī black square will show instead of the video. This problem has been caused by changes made by both Google and PowerPoint and only affects video added to the presentation as embedded code. 2680PowerPoint Links to YouTube not working?