If you ever use YouTube videos in your PowerPoint slides, you may have run across the screen above recently. It is a documented problem with the desktop version of PowerPoint (i.e. PowerPoint installed on your computer) and YouTube links. If you use try to click on a link in your slides while in the desktop version of PowerPoint, the link takes you the screen pictured above.
There are two main ways to solve this. Both are pretty easy to do, but one has a distinct advantage over the other. Watch the video below to learn more (bonus: learn how I have students do their presentations in my classes when they have PowerPoint slides).
I should also thank Michelle Henderson for alerting me to this issue and one of the fixes for this problem.
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