Similarly, you can preview the results of the advanced repair and go to a trusted location to save your repaired video file. Once the video is fixed, you can try to insert it into your document again and fix the PowerPoint embedded video not playing issue. Part 4: Tips to Play and Embed Videos in PowerPoint. If you think the active content in a file is from a reliable source, it’s better to move the file to a trusted location, instead of changing the default Trust Center settings to a less-safe macro security setting. Add a trusted location. Click File Options. Click Trust Center Trust Center Settings Trusted Locations. Click Add new location. Description; This policy setting controls whether trusted locations on the network can be used. If you enable this policy setting, users can specify trusted locations on network shares or in other remote locations that are not under their direct control by clicking the 'Add new location' button in the Trusted Locations section of the Trust Center. Add the PPTX File Location to the Trust List. Step 1: Go to Trust Center window of MS PowerPoint program by following Step 1-3 of Way 2 above. Step 2: Choose Trusted Locations option in the left menu and click Add new location button on the right pane.
How do I add or remove trusted locations in Office?
A trusted location in Office can be used to bypass the stricter security imposed by the Trust Center feature of Microsoft Office. This scrutiny is important for documents, spreadsheets, or presentations that you might get from email attachments or websites. For those documents that you have created, come from trusted sources, or contain legitimate macros, you can add a file path as a trusted location for the convenience of bypassing the Trust Center and Office's Protected View.
A trusted location should be used wisely as it will documents in that location to run macros. Malicious documents can use macros to load malware including ransomware. For this reason, your downloads folder would be a bad location to add. Your departmental share on a file server might be a good location to add.
Office on Windows:
- Open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
- Choose to create a new blank file.
- Click the File tab.
- Choose Options.
- From the Word Options window, choose Trust Center from the left navigation.
- Click the 'Trust Center Settings...' button.
- From the Trusted Center window, choose the Trusted Locations from the left navigation.
- From here, you can add a new location, remove, or modify existing entries using the respective buttons.
You will have to check the box to 'Allow Trusted Locations on my network (not recommended)' in order to add a location like your departmental share.
Office on Mac:
Add Trusted Location For Powerpoint On Desktop
Office 2016 for Mac does not currently have configurable Trusted Locations. By default, you will be warned when a document with macros is opened and this setting should remain enabled. Mac users, just like Windows users, should exercise caution when opening attachments or files from the Internet.