How to Insert a YouTube Video in a Word Document
Word supports inserting online videos, including videos from YouTube, Vimeo and SlideShare. For this tutorial, we’re using Office 2016. After you’ve clicked on the “Insert” button, you will see the YouTube video embedded into your document. More precisely, you will see its thumbnail as an image, just as it appears on YouTube when it hasn’t started playing yet. If you want to play the video, simply press the “Play” button. A container pops up on the screen and plays the video for you.
Format Your YouTube Video to Integrate It Properly
Leaving the video as is doesn’t look very nice, so you’ll need to edit it a little bit.
How to Add an Offline Video to a Word Document
The downside to adding offline videos (or videos from your computer’s storage) to Word documents is that they will only play on your PC. Videos added from your computer won’t play if you send the document to someone else – this is why offline videos are not as useful as online videos. Even so, if you’re making a presentation that you’ll end up playing from your laptop, adding one of your personal videos is a viable option. There are two ways to add a local video to your Word document. The first has you activate the “Developer” option in Word.
1. Use Developer Mode
2. Insert an Object
If you’re looking for a shorter method, you can try this alternative, but it’s not as elegant as the other, as it simply embeds an icon for your video into the Word document. To play the video, you’ll need to double-click on the icon. This approach could be useful if you want to remember to play the video at a particular point while you’re reading the document. Image credit: Windows via Unsplash All screenshots by Alexandra Arici
