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Inserting online video into a document - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Inserting online video into a document

One thing you can now do here in Word 2013 is insert online video right into your documents. If the video occurs somewhere on the Web, maybe a YouTube video, for example, you can insert it into your document, and play it right from the Word Document without having to leave, and go into a browser. So let's do that as we continuing working with our Media Doc file; Media Doc3 if you've jumped to this lesson, and need to get caught up. We are going to go down to the Still from Ride By, and replace it with a video. So we'll click to select it, hit Delete on the keyboard, it's gone, our cursor is flashing in the right place, though, for us to insert that online video. To do that, we go to the Insert tab. There is a Media section with one option, which is Online Video. We'll give it a click. Now it's just a matter of finding it. We can Search the Web using Bing video search; just enter a few keywords. If it's YouTube video, we can do the same, or maybe it's somewhere else on the Web, and you have the embed code. If you know it, you can find it, and copy it; it can be pasted right in here, and it will then be a video that will appear in your document at that flashing cursor. We are going to go YouTube, though, because there is something up there we can use. Let's type in some keywords. We'll start with b roll, how about rideby, all one word, how about lynda.com? Press Enter on your keyboard, and there's only one result. There it is: B roll RideBy, and it is a video that's over a minute long, so we'll select it, and click Insert. Now, initially the size is a little bit too much, taking up way too much space, but it is an object with handles. If we go to the top right corner, and click and drag it down, you can see we can resize it. Get it close to the same size as the image that appears in the table, so right above, and release. There we go; resized nicely. We do need to change the label now. It's not actually a still, it's Online video from Ride By, and we'll take out Video 1. There we go; a new label. And notice that our image here, which, by the way, we could make changes to; just click it, and you have all those formatting options for the image, representing the video that can be played. But we are going to leave it as is, and check it out by hitting the Play button. That's all you need to do to play the video. It opens up in its own little screen on top of your document, so it can be viewed at any time. When you're done, you just click outside that viewer, and you're back to your document with your placeholder. Go ahead and give it a try. It's a great new feature here in Word 2013.

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