I want to show you today how to easily insert a YouTube video into Excel. Why would I want to do that you may ask?. …..
Maybe you need to send a user a video on how to use the Excel worksheet, promote your YouTube channel or maybe you want to show a video when you are presenting using Excel. Yes that is correct you can demonstrate your Excel solution then show a video right there from Excel without having to come out of Excel and go into YouTube, press play…..
It is really easy to embed a YouTube Video right into Excel, not just the URL. All you need to do is follow the steps below.
Step 1. Modify the video URL
- Copy and paste the URL from the video into your Excel worksheet. It will look like this.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEROnKBOlgE
- Remove WATCH?
- Replace the = after the V and enter /
- The new URL looks like this https://www.youtube.com/v/HEROnKBOlgE
- Ready now for step 2.
Step 2. Embed the Video
- Developer Tab – Insert – More Controls – Shock Wave Flash Object – Hit Ok
- Click anywhere in your Excel worksheet to embed the object
- Right click in the object and hit properties – enter the new URL in the MOVIE field
- That is the last step, just click off design mode and you will see your video
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