How to add Youtube or Vimeo video to Word

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Course contents
SECTION: 5
How to create a company template 2:20
SECTION: 8
How to make an interactive form 10:13
SECTION: 9
Creating personalized letters using Mail merge 4:34
SECTION: 11
Cheat sheet & shortcuts 3:23

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Course info

52 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Hi there, in this Word tutorial course we’re going to learn Microsoft Word together. This is a project based course.

We’ll work through real world documents such as a formal business letter, monthly newsletter, a really long business report, a timetable and a visually exciting interactive PDF product document.

Projects included:

  • Creating a formal business letter

  • Creating a monthly company newsletter

  • Formatting a long business report, adding charts & graphs from Excel

  • Creating a timetable schedule using tables

  • Creating a company template using corporate fonts, colours & images

  • Creating a product overview PDF with basic interactivity

  • Creating a business form

  • Printing personalised letterheads & envelopes for client lists

This course is for beginners. You don’t need any previous knowledge of Word or any desktop publishing experience. We will start right at the basics but quickly get into working with up to date modern features.

You’ll work with images, logos & specific company colours. You’ll create corporate templates and reusable styles - automatically personalizing them using Mail Merge.

You’ll learn to make a monthly newsletter with links & videos ready for sharing & commenting. You’ll learn how to take charge of long documents; cleaning them up and adding professional graphs, infographics, tables and much more including exercise files. We will give you a printable 'cheat sheet'.

I will be around to help.If you get lost you can drop a comment on the video 'Questions and Answers' section that is below every video & I'll be sure to get back to you.

So my friend, now is your time to go from Word Zero, to Word Hero and for you to become the Microsoft Word professional in your office.


What are the requirements?

  • This course is for absolute beginners

  • You'll need a copy of Microsoft Word 2016.

  • No previous Word or desktop publishing skills are necessary.

What am I going to learn from this course?

  • How to work with your specific company fonts & colours.

  • Format text like a professional.

  • Work with various images, styles and implementations.

  • Save documents to older versions of Word.

  • How to save as a PDF.

  • How to make an interactive form.

  • Where to get inspiration for your design.

  • How to install new fonts.

  • Work with multiple column layouts.

  • How to personalise letters & envelopes from a list.

  • Adjust heading styles.

  • Work with really long text documents.

  • How to create a table of contents automatically.

  • How to work with bullets & numbering.

  • How to master tabs.

  • Create beautiful graphics & diagrams.

  • How to make an infographic.

  • How to work closely with Microsoft Excel.

  • How to work with comments & changes.

  • How to share you documents with others.

  • How to build your own company templates.

  • How to work with tables.

  • How to add videos to you documents.

  • You’ll get a cheat sheet, shortcuts and much, much more…

Who is the target audience?

  • Yes: This course is for people who need to learn Microsoft Word for work.

  • Yes: This course is perfect for people who need to upgrade their skills for their CV and job applications.

  • Yes: This course is for complete beginners and for people who know the basics of Word already.

  • No: This course is NOT for people who have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word.

  • No:This is for PC version of Word 2016. (While 90% of this course will work on a Mac and in early versions of Word no guarantees can be made.)

Course duration 3 hours 18 mins

 

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at how to bring in a YouTube video, like this one, or Vimeo, or any other kind of hosted video service that you might want to play straight within Word. Happy days! Let's go do that.

First of all you need to figure out what video you're going to use, it doesn't matter whether you're using Vimeo or YouTube or Wistia, or any other kind of video hosting program. We're going to use YouTube because it's the most common. Fun video. And then, a couple of options, the easiest way is to go down to 'Share' and grab 'Embed'. This is all selected, right click it, say copy, jump back into your Word document. Where is it going to go? Mine's going to go just underneath here, and I'm going to go to 'Insert', 'Online Video', and here are the options, we're going to use this, ‘From A Video Embed Code'. Click in here, right click, hit 'Paste', and then hit this little arrow here. There's my little video. I'm going to make it the size I want, hit play, and, it's me, playing out the tutorials. I'm going to Hi there, in this video we're going to show you how to make links that will jump out to website, and how to style them so they're not blue and underlined, but also work through how to add links when they jump out to an email address, like this one, and also, the lovely thing, we're going to turn off when you hit bringyourownlaptop.com, and hit return, it's not going to automatically convert it into a hyperlink, we're going to disable that. Let's go and do that in this tutorial.

First up, we're going to bring in some text, we're going to 'File', 'Open', and if you've downloaded the exercise files, that should be on your 'Desktop', 'Exercise Files', I'm using this one called '05 Interactive', my 'Product Information'. 

What I want is, I want—we’ve used this already on the cover, and I grab these, if you don't have the files, there'll be a link on the screen here somewhere to download them. So I'm going to copy all of this, and I'm going to bring it into my document, I'm going to paste it in. 

There's a couple of things we want to do; there's some text here that already has the url, or website address, so we're going to put in our hyperlink, so we're going to right click it, sorry, select it, and then go along to 'Insert', and in the middle here is our kind of like interactive links stuff. So we’re going to click on 'Hyperlink', which just means it’s going to link to a website. Where are we going to link it to? To an 'Existing File or Web Page', that's not what we want, display text as, and this is the address, great!

So this is where you can type in, sometimes, 'http://', so just copy and paste that from the website. If you've got a more complicated one, you might have adobe.com on the site, but actually - I want to display text as just this - but actually link to maybe something really long in here, might be under here, maybe 'inkling', and it might have all these other bits and pieces. Looks nice under display text, but you have just have this ugly url down the bottom here. I'll click 'OK', and we get our lovely styling, you can decide on how to style this, select it, go to 'Home', and decide, actually I just want this 'black' again, and I will remove the underline by clicking the 'underline' option. It will still be a hyperlink, you will still be able to click it, and it will still work when we do an interactive PDF in the next video. 

So the next thing we'll look at is adding an email address, so I'm going to select this guy, and I'm going to go back to 'Insert', and I go 'Hyperlink', there's an option in here, it says 'E-mail address', and we have email address here, let's type in 'sales', just leave the ‘mailto’ at the beginning there, and 'adobe.com'. I probably don't want ‘mailto’ to display, bumped out there, but that's required in the kind of code side of things. 'Subject' line, so when people click on this, it's going to pre-fill in the subject line, so what this is going to be is, it's going to be 'Order Inquiry'. I'm going to click 'OK'.  Same sort of thing, I can restyle it, but when that's clicked it's going to open up my email, either gmail, or Outlook, whatever I happen to be using on my machine. So that's hyperlinks, and how to do emails. 

The last thing I'd like to do is, a really annoying thing that people have is, when you start typing in an email address, say you start typing in mine, 'bringyourownlaptop.com', you hit return, and you get the blue underline, and it does a hyperlink automatically. I really don't like that. So what I want to do is, I've undone that, I'm going to turn that off by default. And you do that by going to 'File', go along to 'Options', go to 'Proofing', and then this one here called 'Auto Correct Options', and in here the one we don't want is 'Internet and network paths'. Click 'OK'. It means, now when I type in my web address, 'bringyourownlaptop.com', put 'return' in, yes, it doesn't force in a hyperlink. I can edit myself later on if I like, but it's not making everything blue, and underlined.

All right, that is how to work with hyperlinks in Word 2016. close it down.

That's how to put in a YouTube clip one way, let's do one other option quickly, so we can go into here, and go to 'Insert', rather than having to go to YouTube first, I got my cursor where I want it to be, I can go to 'Online Video', and I can just do a search in here. I can type in, in my case, it was called, something to do with 'Bring Your Own Laptop', my company, it starts doing searches, and you can see, there's a bunch of my videos, there's me. This one, a really clever way of doing it, but let's say I'm going to decide on this one here, and then click 'Insert'. 

If we're going to do it from Vimeo, it's very similar. Let's jump into Vimeo, in Vimeo, I found a video that I want to use, and at the top here there's a couple of options, the one I want is this one here called 'Share' with a paper dove, click on that one, and click this 'Embed', right click it, go to 'Copy', jump back into your Word document, and just like we did with YouTube, go to 'Insert', 'Online Video', where it says 'Embed Code', right click in here, click 'Paste', click the little arrow, and there we go, we got a little Vimeo clip.

So putting in a video into Word is pretty easy. The only trouble is that the videos aren't actually part of the file, so internet connection is needed to go off and grab the videos from YouTube or Vimeo.

All right, that's it for this tutorial. Let's jump into the next one, we'll get a bit more interactive PDF type like.

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