This is something I have started to use a lot when I have my Excel courses or in my class when I teach Excel to students at my business school.
I embed YouTube-videos into the excel spreadsheet. This makes it possible for the user of the spreadsheet to watch the video at the same time as he/she is working in the Excel sheet.
The participants at my courses love it! After two days of “cramming” they have all or exercises in 5 to 10 minutes video clips to bring embedded in the exercise workbooks.
For my students the get video recorded Excel solutions to advanced prpoblems.
OK, this is how you do it:
1. You insert a Shockwave Flash Object in an Excel spreadsheet (Developer ->Insert-> More controls)
2. In the properties for that object you add an address to you YouTube-movie.
3- You need to do some small changes to the YouTube address (Delete the watch? And replace = with a /). Eg: making:
http://www.youtube.com/v/bvgttKEIhFc&feature=relmfu
out of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvgtt...feature=relmfu
After that you have an emedded youtube video in your Excel spread sheet.
If you want more details, you can read my blog post on this, where I also have a video demonstrating everything step by step…
You find it here:
http://excelblogger.com/embed-youtub...l-spreadsheet/
Regards
Anders
excelblogger.com
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