How To Add Music to PowerPoint From YouTube in A Few Steps

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How to Add Music to PowerPoint From YouTube

Knowing how to add music to PowerPoint from YouTube can make your presentation more engaging.

While PowerPoint doesn’t allow you to import music from YouTube directly, you can work around this by downloading it first and then inserting it into your slides. I’ll show you how to do it!

How To Add Music to PowerPoint From YouTube

First, you’ll need to get the music from YouTube and save it on your computer.

How To Download Music From YouTube

Follow the steps below:

  1. Download, install, and launch a reliable YouTube downloader like YTSaver.
YTSaver
  1. Go to YouTube, search for the music you want to add to your presentation, and copy the video URL. 
Copy the video URL
  1. Paste the link in YT Saver and wait for it to complete.
Paste link

Insert the Downloaded Audio Into PowerPoint

You can now add it to your presentation:

  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide where you want the music to begin.
  2. Click on the Insert tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.
Insert tab
  1. Select Audio, then click Audio on My PC from the options available.
Audio on My PC
  1. Browse where you saved the MP3 file, select it, and click Insert.
click Insert
  1. You can save your presentation by clicking File > Save or Save As.  
Music added

That’s it! Simple, right?

So, now you know how to add music to PowerPoint from YouTube. You can create a more engaging and memorable presentation this way.

Also, learn to fix “Sorry, PowerPoint can’t read ^0” and “An error occurred while PowerPoint was saving the file” errors.

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