Friday, January 14, 2011

[Excel Tip]-How to “Embed or Insert” Youtube videos in to Excel Sheets

Excel Sheets and power point presentations needn’t be always boring. We have demonstrated through an earlier post giving a tutorial on how to insert live webpages in PowerPoint slides. After reading this “how-to?” post you’ll learn how to make your excel sheets and workbooks more informative and perhaps entertaining. Now, read.
1. Enable Developer Ribbon Toolbar
If you are using an older version of Microsoft Excel, it won’t have the “Developer Ribbon” toolbar. Don’t worry! Just Enable the Developer toolbar from Excel options > Popular
enable developer ribbon ms-excel
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2. Clean the Excel Sheet
Go to view>Gridlines and uncheck Gridlines.
Hiding Gridlines, cleaning excel sheet
3. Developer Tab
Go to Developer>insert>More controls
developer tab
4. Shockwave Flash Object
Choose “Shockwave Flash Object” for supporting youtube videos.
Shockwave Flash Object
Once you click the “Shockwave Flash Object”, use the mouse pointer which changes to “+” sign for drawing a rectangle. Here, your flash object will be inserted, youtube video in a typical case.
Shockwave rectangle
5. Set properties
Right click on the rectangle now and select properties. Locate the property Movie and set it to the path of your Youtube video[URL] along with ?fs=1&hl=en_US in the end
set properties shockwave
6. Exit Design Mode and Play
Now, you are almost done. Close the properties window and from Developer tab, click on “Design Mode” to exit design mode.
excel youtube final

It automatically starts loading, and you can play the video!


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