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1-Upload your video to YouTube. Sign up for the service and follow the directions to upload a video. Once the video is loaded, it will have its own special webpage URL, which you can use as a link.

Open your email program and compose an email like normal. Press the "Enter" key a few times to give yourself space to load the graphic.

Open the YouTube page with your video. Press the "Control" and "Print Screen" key to take a screen shot of the page.

Go back into your email. Right-click in the email's body and select "Paste." This will paste the screen shot into the email. Use the picture tools in in your program to crop the image so just the video box is showing.

Go to a website that let's you download a graphic of a play button (see Resources). Save it to your computer.

Click back to your email and click on the "Insert" menu from the top of the window and click on "Picture" and then "From File." Browse through the files on your computer until you find the "Play" graphic you downloaded. Click on it to select it and click on "Insert." Move the button graphic so it is in the center of the video graphic.

Right-click the Play graphic and click on "Hyperlink" to bring up the hyperlink command box. Go back into the YouTube page and click on the "Share" link under the video. Highlight and right-click to copy the URL from the box under "Copy and paste this link into an email or instant message." Click back into the email and paste the address into the "Address" box at the bottom of the Hyperlink window. Click "OK." Now, when people click on the play button in the email, they will be taken to the YouTube page with your video.