PPT: Error inserting QuickTime Movie (*.mov)

When you insert a QuickTime Movie (*.mov) into your PowerPoint 95 presentation on a computer running Microsoft Windows, you may receive the following error message:

This problem occurs if you click Movie on the Insert menu and choose a QuickTime Movie file. Although the QuickTime extension (*.mov) is in the list of valid movie file types, PowerPoint is unable to insert a QuickTime movie.

If you follow the same procedures in PowerPoint 97 for Windows, the QuickTime movie inserts correctly.

Use the following steps to insert a QuickTime movie into your PowerPoint presentation on a computer running Microsoft Windows.

NOTE: These steps require that you have QuickTime for Windows installed on your computer. If you do not have QuickTime for Windows installed, you cannot insert a QuickTime Movie into your PowerPoint for Windows 95 or PowerPoint 97 presentation.

1. On the Insert menu, click Object.
2. Click Create New. From the list, select QuickTime Movie, then click OK.
3. QuickTime starts and asks you for the movie file location. Select the file, and then click OK.
4. On the File menu, click "Close And Return To Presentation." When prompted to update the presentation, click Yes.

PowerPoint inserts the QuickTime movie into the PowerPoint presentation.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in PowerPoint 97 for Windows.